Videos

Author and historian Rebecca Hall and illustrator Hugo Martinez looked at the role that women played in slave revolts in the Middle Passage and in Colonial New York. This was a virtual event…

University of Pennsylvania American history Professor Mia Bay looked at the history of race and travel in America. This was a virtual event hosted by the Mark Twain House and Harriet Beecher…

David Reynolds presented a history of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852. The author profiled Ms. Stowe (1811-1896), whose novel supported the abolishment of …

Debby Applegate talked about her book The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, published by Doubleday. Ms. Applegate explained that minister and abolitionist Henr…

Executive Director of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Katherine Kane talked about Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home where the center is located. She also talked about Stowe’s writing of Uncle T…

Richard Wightman Fox talked about his book Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book examines the life of 19th c…