Tag Archives: Slavery

Reflections on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Posted on May 22, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

First, I will admit that I have been teaching American history for almost 35 years and have never, until recently, read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Why? For several reasons, I suppose. First, it was never assigned in any … Continue reading →

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Images of Lincoln

Posted on May 13, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

When I was a teenager–not very thoughtful and focused mostly on baseball and basketball–my grandfather, a retired custodian whom I would have never thought would read such books, gave me a three-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg. The … Continue reading →

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