The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center uses Stowe’s life and work to inspire YOU to change your world.

Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852. The world was never the same. Abolition became possible. Emancipation became law. But today, in the 21st century, inequity is everywhere. What would Stowe do? What will YOU do?

• Salons at Stowe -- Guilty by Race: Profiling in Connecticut

  Join us Thursday, May 24 at 5 p.m. for a spirited discussion with Matthew Kauffman from the Hartford Courant and CT State Representative Gary Holder-Winfield.

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• Stowe Prize 2013: Call for Nominations

  Accepting nominations for the 2013 Stowe Prize. Nominations and supporting materials due by July 2, 2012,

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• Visit both Stowe and Mark Twain in one tour this weekend!

  Experience the lives of Hartford's most famous writers - and next door neighbors - this weekend.

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• This Week at the Stowe Center

  Wednesday - Sunday: Tours and "Who Is Uncle Tom?" exhibit; DJ Spooky brings "ReBirth of a Nation" to Stowe and Twain

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• National Endowment for the Humanities awards Stowe Center funding for Collections Preservation Project

  Congressman John B. Larson notified the Stowe Center that the National Endowment for the Humanities will award the Stowe Center $335,000 to support the second phase of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Collections Preservations Project!

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• Kristof and WuDunn on Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Stowe Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn speak about Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal role in writing for social change.

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