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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories: The Ghost In The Mill

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.

She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Her notable siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who was an educator and author, as well brothers who became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.

Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally male education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates there was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary.

There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase, Emily Blackwell, and others. It was in that group that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower and professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. They had seven children together, including twin daughters.

In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching. Stowe found it difficult to concentrate and write in their home and so rented a room in a home owned by Mrs. Lamb on 183 Park Row. On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly antislavery journal National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent. Shortly after, In June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in the National Era.

She originally used the subtitle The Man That Was A Thing, but it was soon changed to Life Among the Lowly. Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid only $400. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by Hammatt Billings. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented three hundred thousand copies. By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37 1/2 cents each to further inspire sales.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to Washington, Kentucky, a major community of the era just south of Maysville. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville.

Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at Dresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east of Algonac, Michigan. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Harriett Beecher Stowe House

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories: The Ghost In The Cap'n Brown House

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.

She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Her notable siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who was an educator and author, as well brothers who became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.

Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally male education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates there was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary.

There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase, Emily Blackwell, and others. It was in that group that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower and professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. They had seven children together, including twin daughters.

In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching. Stowe found it difficult to concentrate and write in their home and so rented a room in a home owned by Mrs. Lamb on 183 Park Row. On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly antislavery journal National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent. Shortly after, In June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in the National Era.

She originally used the subtitle The Man That Was A Thing, but it was soon changed to Life Among the Lowly. Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid only $400. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by Hammatt Billings. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented three hundred thousand copies. By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37 1/2 cents each to further inspire sales.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to Washington, Kentucky, a major community of the era just south of Maysville. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville.

Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at Dresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east of Algonac, Michigan. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Brotherhood Singers during Harriet Beecher Stowe House concert october 1st,2011

The Brotherhood Singer portion of A Concert of Civil War Music to Benefit Harriet Beecher Stowe House with Jay Ungar, Molly Mason Band, Jacqueline Schwab and special guest Nick Clooney. Concert was Saturday, October 1, 2011 at The Harriet Tubman Theatre, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio ( Permission granted to upload by Jack Dominic (CET) and Kathy Wyatt (Ohio Historical Society).

Crew stopped from destroying historic bricks

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - It's Cincinnati's oldest neighborhood and proud of it and even though much has been done to move it forward the past few years, there can be daily struggles to keep Over-The-Rhine from being torn apart brick by brick.

Margy Waller lives in Over-The-Rhine and loves the history of the neighborhood. When she saw workers digging up bricks that were part of the historic alley, she decided to do something about it. Historic bricks line many of the alleys and workers were in Adrian Alley behind Margy Waller's house.

Waller spoke to Local 12 News by Facetime, I heard a loud drilling and it went to look out my window to see what it was and saw this big machine. Went out to see what was happening and learned that it was water works drilling right through the historic brick in our alley.

The workers were trying to fix a leak in a building that the owner was renovating. After some polite back and forth with workers, and an effort to come to a compromise, what followed was a standoff of sorts. Margy, against workers and their equipment, refused to move. And she said the workers didn't have the right permit.

And it turns out that our historic rules require that you have a certificate of appropriateness for doing something like this in a historic district, she said.

Margy had the police called on her. Her neighbor, who is known for preserving buildings in OTR, witnessed the confrontation, We have these 150-year-old bricks and they had just come right in and jackhammered them right up and we're very protective of that.

Eventually the workers stopped. Margy and Danny Klingler moved the bricks to the side. The pair feel an obligation to preserve the city's history. The workers filled the hole for now. Waller said the workers promised to get the proper permit and that they'll replace the bricks to the condition that they were in.

Eliza Crossing the River - Harriet Beecher Stowe Poem animation

Here's a virtual movie of Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe reading Eliza Crossing the River A Poem come Parable about good deeds leading to good fortune.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/stoʊ/; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811.[1] She was the seventh of 13 children,[2] born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Her notable siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who was an educator and author, as well as brothers who became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, who became a famous abolitionist, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.[3]

Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally male education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates there was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern.[4] At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase, Emily Blackwell, and others.[5]

It was in that group that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower and professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836.[6] He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. They had seven children together, including twin daughters.

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Sears Point in the snow

Scenery from the spot where the Oyster Pond River meets Stage Harbor on a snowy January day, with soundtrack of an elegant English Country Dance tune performed by Jacqueline Schwab. A few special visual effects thrown in at the end.

8 Things to Do in Cincinnati, Ohio

If you find yourself with some free time in Cincinnati, there is a lot to see. Much of it is within walking distance from downtown hotels, although you will want to drive or taxi to some of these recommended destinations.

The Photos (in order)

D15A0108 - The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame is located in downtown Cincinnati next to the stadium where the Reds play baseball; the Cincinnati Bengals play their home football games a few blocks to the west

D15A0127 - The riverfront's Sawyer Point Park is home to the Cincinnati Gateway, which features the Porkopolis sculpture, a tribute to Cincinnati's history as hog processor to the country

D15A0194 - Cincinnati has a number of art museums including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art a.k.a. the Contemporary Art Center

D15A0089 - Cincinnati was a major stop along the Underground Railroad, routes Southern slaves followed to reach freedom in the North; the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center tells their story

D15A0251 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and a staunch anti-slavery activist, lived in this house for several years

D15A0159 - Cincinnati's Carew Tower is a great example of Art Deco architecture, and its lobby reflects the grandeur of the era in which it was built; on a clear day you can see three states, including great views of Cincinnati itself; the building served as a model for the Empire State Building; the building appeared in the credits for the old soap opera The Edge of Night; show producer Procter & Gamble is based in Cincinnati

D15A0246 - The William Howard Taft National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park Service; Taft, the only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the United States was born and raised here; the Taft Art Museum in downtown Cincinnati was where Taft accepted his party's nomination for the presidency in 1908

D15A0282 - The smallish American Sign Museum features a collection of old signs of various types, including this hall of neon signs; information about the history of different styles of signs is posted throughout the museum

Driving around Maysville, Kentucky

Maysville is a home rule-class city in Mason County, Kentucky, United States and is the seat of Mason County. The population was 9,011 at the 2010 census, making it the 40th-largest city in Kentucky by population. Maysville is on the Ohio River, 66 miles (106 km) northeast of Lexington. It is the principal city of the Maysville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Mason and Lewis counties. Two bridges cross the Ohio from Maysville to Aberdeen, Ohio: the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge built in 1931 and the William H. Harsha Bridge built in 2001.

On the edge of the outer Bluegrass Region, Maysville is historically important in Kentucky's settlement. Frontiersmen Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone are among the city's founders. Later, Maysville became an important port on the Ohio River for the northeastern part of the state. It exported bourbon whiskey, hemp and tobacco, the latter two produced mainly by African American slaves before the Civil War.[citation needed] It was once a center of wrought iron manufacture, sending ironwork downriver to decorate the buildings of Cincinnati, Ohio, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Other small manufacturers also located early in Maysville and manufacturing remains an important part of the modern economy. Under the leadership of Henry Means Walker, Maysville was home to one of the largest tobacco auction warehouses in the world for most of the 20th century.

Maysville was an important stop on the Underground Railroad, as the free state of Ohio was just across the river. Abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the area in 1833 and watched a slave auction in front of the court house in Washington, the original seat of the county and now a historic district of Maysville. She included the scene in her influential novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852.

Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wikipedia audio article

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SUMMARY
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances on social issues of the day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin: Chapter 6, Discovery

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.

She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Her notable siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who was an educator and author, as well brothers who became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.

Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally male education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates there was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary.

There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase, Emily Blackwell, and others. It was in that group that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower and professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. They had seven children together, including twin daughters.

In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching. Stowe found it difficult to concentrate and write in their home and so rented a room in a home owned by Mrs. Lamb on 183 Park Row. On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly antislavery journal National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent. Shortly after, In June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in the National Era.

She originally used the subtitle The Man That Was A Thing, but it was soon changed to Life Among the Lowly. Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid only $400. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by Hammatt Billings. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented three hundred thousand copies. By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37 1/2 cents each to further inspire sales.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to Washington, Kentucky, a major community of the era just south of Maysville. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville.

Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at Dresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east of Algonac, Michigan. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Uncle Tom's Cabin


00:02:13 1 Sources
00:04:53 2 Publication
00:07:17 3 Plot
00:07:26 3.1 Eliza escapes with her son; Tom sold down the river
00:08:55 3.2 Eliza's family hunted; Tom's life with St. Clare
00:10:17 3.3 Tom sold to Simon Legree
00:12:16 3.4 Final section
00:12:55 4 Major characters
00:13:04 4.1 Uncle Tom
00:13:40 4.2 Eliza
00:14:28 4.3 Eva
00:15:37 4.4 Simon Legree
00:16:59 5 Other characters
00:20:20 6 Major themes
00:23:23 7 Style
00:26:09 8 Reactions to the novel
00:26:41 8.1 Contemporary and world reaction
00:32:02 8.2 Literary significance and criticism
00:36:02 9 Creation and popularization of stereotypes
00:39:11 10 Anti-Tom literature
00:41:05 11 Dramatic adaptations
00:41:15 11.1 Plays and Tom shows
00:45:03 11.2 Films
00:50:56 12 See also
00:51:54 13 Collections



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates



SUMMARY
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called the most popular novel of our day. The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, So this is the little lady who started this great war. The quote is
apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy; the pickaninny stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a vital antislavery tool.

“Southern Cross, North Star - Guest Lecture - Dr. Christopher Phillips, Univ. of Cincinnati

“Southern Cross, North Star: The Politics of Region, Irreconciliation, and Civil War Memory in the American Heartland, a guest lecture from Dr. Christopher Phillips, Department of History, University of Cincinnati.

Recorded Sept. 13, 2018, in the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library at the University of Alabama.

Phillips is the John and Dorothy Hermanies Professor of American History and the University Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, at the University of Cincinnati.

His research interests are in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and more specifically, in the American South, with particular interest in the border states.

He is the author of seven books focused on slavery and freedom, urban African Americans, emancipation, war, race, politics and memory during and after the Civil War era, including The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border (2016), which received the Tom Watson Brown Prize from the Society of Civil War Historians and the George and Ann Richards Center for Research on the Civil War Era, as well as the Society of Military Historians' Distinguished Book Award, the Midwestern History Associations's John Gjerde Prize, the State Historical Society of Missouri's Missouri Book Award and the Ohio Academy of History's Distinguished Book Prize. It was also named a Choice outstanding academic book and a Civil War Monitor best book of the year.

Phillips is a member of the Organization of American Historians distinguished lectureship program, a speakers bureau dedicated to American history.

This event was sponsored by The University of Alabama Libraries and the Summersell Center for the Study of the South, Department of History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

2014 Village Reunion

2014 It Takes A Village Reunion, Located behind the Lincoln Center downtown Cincinnati, Ohio on Linn st. See you all next summer!

Cincinnati, Ohio | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Cincinnati, Ohio


00:03:02 1 History
00:05:14 1.1 Industrial development and Gilded years
00:07:23 1.2 During the Great Depression
00:08:05 1.3 Nicknames
00:10:38 2 Society
00:15:10 2.1 Economy
00:16:13 2.2 Food
00:16:21 2.2.1 Brands
00:17:47 2.2.2 Cincinnati chili
00:18:30 2.3 Dialect
00:19:33 3 Demographics
00:21:51 4 Cityscape
00:24:07 4.1 Landscape
00:24:51 4.2 Waterscape
00:26:44 4.3 Climate
00:28:18 5 Sports
00:32:50 6 Police and fire services
00:34:06 7 Politics
00:37:13 7.1 Race relations
00:42:08 7.2 Present officeholders
00:42:42 8 Schools
00:45:47 9 Theater and song
00:52:28 10 Media
00:52:36 10.1 Newspapers
00:53:02 10.2 Television
00:54:14 10.3 Radio
00:54:49 11 Transportation
00:59:13 12 Notable people
00:59:22 13 Sister cities
00:59:35 14 See also



Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.

Learning by listening is a great way to:
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- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain

Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.

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SUMMARY
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Cincinnati ( SIN-sih-NAT-ee) is a major city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers. The city drives the Cincinnati–Middletown–Wilmington combined statistical area, which had a population of 2,172,191 in the 2010 census making it Ohio's largest metropolitan area. With a population of 301,301, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 65th in the United States. Its metropolitan area is the fastest growing economic power in the Midwestern United States based on increase of economic output and it is the 28th-biggest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. Cincinnati is also within a half day's drive of sixty percent of the United States populace.In the nineteenth century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the heart of the country. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was listed among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-biggest city for a period spanning 1840 until 1860. As Cincinnati was the first city founded after the American Revolution, as well as the first major inland city in the country, it is regarded as the first purely American city.Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than east coast cities in the same period. However, it received a significant number of German immigrants, who founded many of the city's cultural institutions. By the end of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping, trade patterns had altered and Cincinnati's growth slowed considerably. The city was surpassed in population by other inland cities, particularly Chicago, which developed based on strong commodity exploitation, economics, and the railroads, and St. Louis, which for decades after the Civil War served as the gateway to westward migration.
Cincinnati is home to three major sports teams: the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball; the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League; and FC Cincinnati, currently playing in the second division United Soccer League but moving to Major League Soccer (Division 1) in 2019. The city's largest institution of higher education, the University of Cincinnati, was founded in 1819 as a municipal college and is now ranked as one of the 50 largest in the United States. Cincinnati is home to historic architecture with many structures in the urban core having remained intact for 200 years. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was commonly referred to as the Paris of America, due mainly to such ambitious architectural projects as the Music Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel, and Shillito Department Store. Cincinnati is the birthplace of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States.

Robert Duncason painter

Robert Duncason painter

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Born in New York State, Robert Scott Duncanson spent his early childhood in Canada before moving back to the U.S. and eventually settling in Cincinnati with his mother in 1840. Details about his life before Cincinnati, including his early training in painting, are sparse, but while working as a house and sign painter, Duncanson began to create small genre scenes and landscapes on the side. Demand for his paintings was stable enough to inspire Duncanson to pursue an art career, and by 1842, he was showing his work and receiving commissions in the Cincinnati area. His early portrait paintings were featured in an exhibition sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, and during the 1850s, Duncanson emerged as the principal landscape painter in the Ohio River Valley, receiving impressive recognition for his pastoral landscapes and views of the American wilderness. In 1853, he was commissioned to paint illustrations for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and that same year, with funding from the Freeman’s Aid Society and the Anti-Slave League, he traveled to Europe, where the landscapes of Claude Lorrain had a profound influence on him. Upon his return to the U.S. (c.1854), Duncanson operated a professional photography studio, but soon gave it up and returned to painting. In the early 1860s, troubled by the racial strife of the Civil War, Duncanson exiled himself toCanada before touring the British Isles. He returned to the Cincinnati area and died in 1872 while working on an exhibition in Detroit. At the height of his career, Duncanson’s achievements rivaled those of Hudson River Valley painters like Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and John Frederick Kensett, and he received notice from prominent Ohio citizens such as Nicholas Longworth, who commissioned Duncanson to paint a series of large murals at his home (currently the Taft Museum of Art). Following his death, Duncanson’s work lapsed into obscurity. However, in 1986, the Robert S. Duncanson Society was founded at the Taft Museum to preserve Duncanson’s legacy and affirm the museum’s continued commitment to the work of black American artists. In 1993, The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson written by Joseph D. Ketner was published by the University of Missouri Press; the text which includes more than 130 illustrations is a major contribution to the history of art in America.


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