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The Suez Canal, #Stuckboat, & The Sinews of War and Trade with Laleh Khalili

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Apr 8, 2021 | The American Vandal

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on April 8, 2021 Apple | Spotify Last month, the Ever Given, a golden class container ship, one of the biggest in the world, ran aground in the Suez Canal, blocking traffic through one of the busiest maritime...

A Music Box, Minstrel Songs, & Mark Twain’s Emo Playlist

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Mar 31, 2021 | The American Vandal

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 31, 2021 Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes Late last year, Matt Seybold published his research on Mark Twain’s...

Unsealing the Archive of T.S. Eliot’s Love Letters to Emily Hale

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Mar 16, 2021 | The American Vandal

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on March 16, 2021 Apple | Spotify In 1956, Emily Hale arranged for a trove of 1,131 letters to be sealed and warehoused at the Princeton University Library. She revealed very little about their contents, other than...

Project Huckleberry (a.k.a. The Mandalorian)

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Feb 23, 2021 | The American Vandal

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 23, 2021 Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes One of the biggest brands in contemporary SciFi, Star Wars, produced its hit TV series for Disney+, The Mandalorian, under the...

Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who’s Yellen Now, & The GameStop-ification of Finance

by Center For Mark Twain Studies | Feb 11, 2021 | The American Vandal

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on February 11, 2021 Apple | Spotify During his tenure at editor of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Mark Twain profited by promoting the stock offerings of mining operations that advertised with the paper,...
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