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The book that started the Civil War. According to Abraham Lincoln, it was the book that started the Civil War. Queen Victoria wept while reading it. Tolstoy included it among the greatest achievements ...

Her main character’s elusiveness is the story’s most remarkable feature. “I was born in South Carolina,” begins John Andrew Jackson’s memoir, published a decade after Uncle Tom’s Cabin. His parents, ...

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The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...

In my biography of John Andrew Jackson, “A Plausible Man,” I detail his remarkable life. An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in Chopin, La., like the one that might ...

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A project is underway in Mandarin to create the first-of-its-kind life-size sculptor of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the nineteenth-century author known for her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ...