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    The Learning Curve: Pulitzer Winner Joan Hedrick on Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin (#181)

    enMarch 13, 2024
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    About this Episode

    This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts DFER-MA’s Mary Tamer and educator and noted Mark Twain scholar Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick interview Trinity College Prof. Joan Hedrick, author of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. During Women’s History Month, Prof. Hedrick discusses Harriet Beecher Stowe’s wide literary influence on U.S. history. From her abolitionist activism to the publication of the international bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, they explore Stowe’s New England upbringing, anti-slavery convictions, and lasting impact […]

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