Uncle Tom's Uncle

Still from Edwin S. Porter's 1903 version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was one of the first "full length" movies. The still shows Eliza telling Uncle Tom that she has been sold and that she is running away to save her child. A number of...

In this article: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gangs of New York, Little Eva, Edwin S. Porter, Marie Eline, Harry A. Pollard, and Anna Rosemond

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How could a theater lover not warm to a president who idolizes Shakespeare -- and recites his speeches from memory, to boot? One of the lovelier moments of "The Heavens Are Hung in Black" -- the engrossing, if long-winded, new Abraham...

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Oh, Freedom is a post Civil War African American freedom song, notably recorded by Odetta as part of the Spiritual Trilogy, on her "Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues" album from 1956. The fourth verse contains the line "No more tommin," where...

In this article: Oh, Freedom, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Odetta

Happy New Presidency! Who are you gonna smooch when the 270th electoral vote is tallied next Tuesday? This article was published in the November 3, 2008, edition of The New York Observer. When the news that George W. Bush had been...

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Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is an 1852 plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. Published in 1852, Aunt Phillis's Cabin contains contrasts...

In this article: Mary Henderson Eastman, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Virginia, New England, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rather than holding his saxophone vertically, Lester Young held it high and to the right at a 45-degree angle. Herman Leonard/Getty Images Rather than holding his saxophone vertically, Lester Young held it high and to the right at a...

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A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is...

In this article: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Josiah Henson, Uncle Tom's Cabin, James Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln, Derivative, American Civil War, New Orleans, and Frederick Douglass

Byron's Don Juan (Penguin Classics version) Don Juan () is a satiric poem by Lord Byron , based on the legend of Don Juan , which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser, but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation...

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Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior White House Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. He writes about politics and popular culture and covers...

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