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- 'Civil War' is a road trip movie set in a horrifying what-if scenario
- When: Civil War is in theaters and IMAX on April 12.
- What to know: The latest from writer-director Alex Garland imagines a United States at war with itself.
- The plot follows three generations of journalists — played by Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura and Stephen McKinley Henderson — on a dangerous trip from New York to Washington, D.C.
- Garland wrote the film during the 2020 election but tells Yahoo Entertainment its release during the 2024 election cycle is coincidental and due to “logistical requirements.”
- While there are some allusions to recent social unrest early in the film, the world of Civil War is wholly fictional and does not concern itself with present-day party politics.
- Promotion for the film hints at a complicated backstory with multiple distinct factions vying for power — but one of Civil War’s greatest strengths is that almost none of this is explained and it is open to viewer interpretation.
- Garland hopes Civil War will spark earnest conversation about the potential consequences of extremism, “because conversation is the thing that is really struggling to exist in public discourse.”
- — Sam Matthews, executive producer
- April 10, 2024
Nov 12, 2009 · Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th century teacher, abolitionist and writer, best known for exposing the horrors of slavery in her seminal novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. ... Civil War; Harriet Beecher ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Harriet Beecher Stowe (born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.
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Mar 20, 2014 · The story most often associated with the book today is that Abraham Lincoln, when introduced to Stowe in Washington, D.C., in 1862 said, “So this is the little lady who started this Great War.”. While scholars find it doubtful that Lincoln actually said that, Uncle Tom’s Cabin prodded the American conscience on the issue of slavery.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe ( / stoʊ /; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel ...
- Harriet Elisabeth Beecher, June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
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Apr 16, 2024 · Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. It achieved wide-reaching popularity, particularly among white Northern readers, through its vivid dramatization of the experience of slavery.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 2, 2014 · Harriet Beecher Stowe was an author and social activist best known for her popular anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin.' ... which fanned the flames of sectionalism before the Civil War. Stowe ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1811–96. Connecticut. Author. Her popular novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a decade before the Civil War, helped change the way many Americans felt about slavery, and ...
