| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multimedia Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/>. Directed by Stephen Railton, University of Virginia, with the Electronic Text Center, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and Alderman Library Special Collections, all at University of Virginia; and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut. Reviewed June 28–30, 2001.

If most Americans recognize Uncle Tom's Cabin as a monumentally important Civil War–era novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, few realize the extent to which Stowe's creation (thanks in large part to the absence of copyright protections in mid-nineteenth-century America) subsequently mutated into several decades' worth of popular culture incarnations. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture has gathered a remarkable breadth of these incarnations in text, images, audio, film clips, and material culture dating from 1830 to 1930. The site casts a wide and useful net, including the novel and much more: proslavery and African American responses to Stowe's text; examples from the antebellum cultural contexts of sentimental culture, Christianity, the antislavery movement, and blackface minstrel shows; versions of Stowe's novel for the popular stage; children's books; illustrations; foreign-language editions; vaudeville skits; card games; porcelain figures—a remarkable collection for teaching about race and popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The site is indeed a multimedia archive, with film clips (early commercial film took the still crowd-pleasing Uncle Tom's Cabin for a subject), re-created antebellum songs, and decorative artifacts ("Tomitudes" in the site's lexicon), which, thanks to QuickTime VR (virtual reality) movies, can be viewed from all angles. . . .

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