Originally posted by: John Pascal on September 24th, 2018It 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...
Originally posted by: John Muller on January 16, 2020With articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump passed by the United States House of Representatives in December 2019, political gridlock has prompted Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to deliberate how...
Originally posted by: Frances Millard on June 28, 2018Here is the story of a 15′ x 11’6” Mahal Carpet once belonging to the Langdon family, how it came to me, and how it was restored through the generosity of Charlotte and Leo Landhuis.In 1988, I was cleaning and...
Originally posted by: Corey McCall on April 4, 2017Since the brutally divisive 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (was it really just four months ago?), the analogy between our present historical moment and Germany in the 1920s has become commonplace. Shortly after the...
Originally posted by: Mark Twain Circle of America on June 9, 2020 “The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” – Mark Twain, Following the EquatorThe Mark Twain Circle affirms the courageous citizens who are risking their health and...
Originally posted by: Cindy Lovell on July 23, 2019[Editor’s Note: Henry Sweets, longtime director of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, announced earlier this month that he would be stepping down at the end of 2019.] Any semi-serious enthusiast of...
Originally posted by: Jennifer L. Lieberman on August 23, 2017Editor’s Note:Earlier this month, Jennifer L. Lieberman, Assistant Professor of English at University of North Florida, was part of the “Twain, Technology, & Industry” panel at the 8th International...
Originally posted by: Joe Lemak on September 18, 2018My name is Joe Lemak and I am the Director of the Center for Mark Twain Studies. I’d like to welcome all of you, not only the familiar faces who are already part of the CMTS community – You know who you are! – but...
Originally posted by: David Ketterer on August 8th, 2017Editor’s Note: David Ketterer is an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Liverpool and an Emeritus Professor of English at Concordia University. He has an extensive record of scholarship on American...
Originally posted by: Jan Kather on January 3, 2017On exhibit on the terrace level of Elmira College’s Gannett-Tripp Library is an oil painting titled Head of Titian’s Venus 2015 by Elmira artist Dan Reidy. The large scale oil painting references the famous Venus of...