Buried In The Rose Garden, And The Coroner Notified: Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, & the Electoral Burlesque
In 1992, Gore Vidal used Mark Twain’s characters to allegorize what he believed might be the last U.S. presidential election.
Category: The Study
Who Tells The Story?: The Scrapbook of Warner McGuinn, A Civil Rights Activist in Mark Twain’s Shadow
The scrapbook of Warner T. McGuinn reveals much about his resistance to segregation and voter suppression in early 20th century Baltimore.
2020 Mark Twain House and Museum Gala!
Event is free and open to the public! Festivities start on November 6 at 8pm.
Hartford House Hosts John Hodgman for Special Virtual Fundraiser Event
Join the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT. for a night of thoughtful hilarity with special guest John Hodgman! Hodgman is a writer, comedian, and actor best known for his time on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, This American Life, HBO’s Bored to Death, and the “Mac vs. PC” series of ads for Apple computers (he was the PC). He is the NYT-bestselling author of five books of humor, including the […]
Special Twain Lecture Event Featuring Jordan Klepper Tonight For Free
The St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Mark Twain Lecture Series Presents Laughing to the Polls with Jordan Klepper
2020 Quarry Farm Symposium Recap
All talks from the two-day event are now available
Conejo Players Theatre Producing “Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam & Eve” For Audiences Nationwide
The oldest volunteer theater company in California brings David Birney’s adaptation of Mark Twain’s Eden diaries to your screen of choice.
Restoration of the Langdon/Clemens Funerary Plot is in Full Swing
The Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery and the Alfred State College School of Masonry are working together to preserve one of Elmira’s most important historical treasures
Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain
Amy Kaplan’s scholarship presents important challenges for Twain Studies.
The Blue Jays Play Their Home Opener On The Site of Mark Twain’s Buffalo Boarding House
The first Major League Baseball game in Buffalo since 1885 has multiple connections to Mark Twain.