Harriet Beecher Stowe

<p><span class="deck"> The Literary Lights Were Always Bright at</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote</span> Uncle Tom’s Cabin</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Beset with ailments, Victorian women found solace, in more ways than one, in a new panacea—hydropathy</span> </p>

<p>We can take pride in our nation, not as we pretend to a commission from God and a sacred destiny, but as we struggle to fulfill our deepest values in an inscrutable world.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> To stave off despair, the President relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating—and surprisingly bawdy</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How the mistress of the plantation became a slave</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><em><span class="typestyle">Walden</span></em> is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> To early Americans the Old Testament and its scenes, even its speech and names, were as familiar as their own backyard</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Brought to the stage without her consent, this enduring American drama did not bring the author a cent—but it gave actors a living for generations</span> </span></p>

<p>Her novel helped to end slavery and proved that Lincoln was right when he said, “Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.”</p>