Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 3, 2017 In marking the beginning of Black History Month the other day, President Donald Trump commended Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on May 8, 2018Saturday, April 21, marked the 108th anniversary of Mark Twain’s passing. For Twain, whose final decade was wracked by overwhelming bereavement, the promise of death’s release was something welcome. By the end of his...
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 5, 2017 by In a recent New York Times column heralding “The Collapse of American Identity,” Robert Jones notes that British writer G.K. Chesterton once observed that the United States was “a nation with the soul of a...
Originally posted by: Kerry Driscoll on July 10th, 2018The seed of what eventually became Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples, published last month by the University of California Press, was planted—quite by coincidence—long ago in Elmira. The...
Originally posted by: Heidi Dierckx on June 15th, 2017During Term III, as part of the “Introduction to Archaeology” course, 12 students under my direction excavated the area on Quarry Farm where there are remains of a chimney. The chimney is located about 100 yards...
Originally posted by: Laura DeMarcoon January 28th, 2020In the years following the Civil War, Cleveland was one of the wealthiest and largest cities in America. Its prime location on Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River made it ideal for manufacturing and...
Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on September 15th, 2017 Editor’s Note: This is the second of several posts from members of the Mark Twain Studies community responding to Hal Holbrook’s announcement earlier this week that he would be retiring Mark Twain...
Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on October 12th, 2018Will Vinton, Oscar-winning director and producer of short-stopped animated films passed away on October 4, 2018 at the age of 70. Here is his obituary in The New York Times. To The Mark Twain Studies...
Originally posted by: Mark Dawidziak on February 9th, 2021The Internet, once touted as the information superhighway, is positively littered with spurious quotes attributed to Mark Twain. To a lesser extent, the same is true for a writer who knew and admired Mark...
Originally posted by: Joe Csicsila on May 21, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: We were saddened to learn this past weekend of the passing of Lawrence I. Berkove, a former Quarry Farm Fellow, Trouble Begins lecturer, and frequent guest of Elmira College and Friend of CMTS. With...