by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Miki Pfeffer on July 19, 2022 Editor’s Note: One of the Center for Mark Twain Studies most important strategic goals is service to the general public. One way that CMTS fulfills this endeavor is the creation of Mark Twain related resource pages...
by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Stephen Pasqualina on October 10, 2019 In a less-than-famous book titled Green Hills of Africa (1935), Ernest Hemingway famously declared that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Though he...
by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: John Pascal on July 13, 2017 Editor’s Note: This is the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series focused on adapting Twain to the classroom. If you have an assignment, activity, lesson plan, syllabus design, or pedagogical narrative which...
by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers
Originally posted by: John Pascal on September 24th, 2018 It is safe to say that most secondary school students know Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from their novels. But they do know less of the enormous variety in Mark Twain’s literary output and the extraordinary...
by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad
Originally posted by: Hilton Obenzinger on February 5, 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE: August of 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Mark Twain’s first book, The Innocents Abroad. We are celebrating the sesquicentennial with a series of short essays by...