Olivia Langdon Clemens: A Life Summary
Barbara Snedecor provides an information page dedicated to Twain’s wife and profound influence on the author’s life and writings
Category: Twain for Teachers
The Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain’s Seminal Narrative
Jeffrey Melton contributes an information resource page on Twain’s seminal travel narrative and first full-length book
Mark Twain Shuffles Off to Buffalo
Tom Reigstad provides a summary of Mark Twain’s prolific period in Buffalo, New York
Teaching Mark Twain’s “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”
Jocelyn’s Slides The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Harpers, December 1899) Example Writing Prompts (Possibly Apocryphal) Hadleyburgs Fredonia, NY Oberlin, OH Adaptations Graphic Novel by Wander Antunes (Simon & Schuster, November 2023) The Small Town by Xu Xinhua (Jiangsua Huai Opera Company, 2016) Audiobook (Blackstone, 2004) TV Movie by Mark Harris (PBS, 1980) Radio Play by Sam Dann (CBS Radio Mystery Theater, 1976) “The Man Who Demoralized Hadleyburg” by Zkislaw Skowronski […]
The 2023 Summer Teachers Seminar: “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”
Join us for the 2023 Summer Teachers Seminar!
The Handsomest Man That Ever Was: Twain’s Joseph Twichell
Steve Courtney contributes to CMTS’ ever growing collection of Twain Studies resource pages with an overview of Rev. Joseph Twichell
A Short Film About Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism Finalist For Indiana History Day Contest
A short documentary about Mark Twain’s anti-imperialism created by two Culver Academies students for National History Day Contest.
The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part Two – Linguistic Exploration
The third selection of teaching exemplars for Mark Twain’s poetry.
The Journey Motif: Poetry & Mark Twain, Part One
The first in a series of scaffolding exemplars for teachers.
“And that has made all the difference.”: Scaffolding Mark Twain’s Poetry
Building on work from the Summer Teachers Institute, Jocelyn Chadwick and Matt Seybold discuss using Mark Twain’s comedic verse to prepare students for Robert Frost’s much-anthologized “The Road Not Taken.”