by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | Mark Twain in Elmira
Originally posted by: Barbara Schmidt on July 8, 2019 Cover of October 1959 Issue of Mad Magazine News outlets reported last week that the current longest-running humor magazine in the U.S. – Mad magazine- will soon stop publishing new material. First issued in 1952,...
by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Jarrod Roark on March 3, 2020 In 2008 I began my PhD program shortly after I had broken my second metatarsal on a run with former students. At the time, antebellum writers of the gothic and sensational occupied my imagination in the darkness of...
by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: Thomas Reigstad on November 26, 2018 For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through...
by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
Originally posted by: Jeanne Campbell Reesman on August 29, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: As of earlier this month, it has been 150 years since the publication of Mark Twain’s first book,The Innocents Abroad. We are marking the occasion with a series of short essays from Twain...
by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Alan Rankin on October 7, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: At the Clemens Conference in Hannibal, Missouri in July 2019, Alan Rankin gave a talk entitled “Nina: The Lost Diary of Nina Gabrilowitsch.” What follows is a modified and expanded version of that...