Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on July 26, 2022To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy (2022)The Culver Academies in northern Indiana have a proud tradition of producing Twainiacs. Hal...
Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & Matt Seybold on September 7th, 2021Mark Twain identified as a poet, a bad poet. “When the great poet laureate, Lord Tennyson, died,” Twain wrote, “I found that his position was open and I tried to get it…but I did not get it…It...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on March 7th, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: The Duluth Public School District in Minnesota recently decided to drop two novels from their curriculum, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird. Jocelyn Chadwick,...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick & John Grassieon on March 14th, 2018EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week, Jocelyn Chadwick responded to the recent removal of “sensitive texts,” including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from the curriculum in Duluth Public Schools by asking...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on April 12th, 2022EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Chadwick has, since 2019, been co-director of our Summer Teachers Institute. While the STI was canceled in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic, Drs. Chadwick and Seybold have continued to...
Originally posted by: Jocelyn Chadwick on February 16th, 2022EDITORS NOTE: Dr. Chadwick has, since 2019, been co-director of our Summer Teachers Institute. While the STI was canceled in 2021 due to the ongoing pandemic, Drs. Chadwick and Seybold have continued to...
Originally posted by: Lubna Alzaroo on August 19th, 2021
EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay originally appeared in the 2023 volume of the Japanese journal, Mark Twain Studies, a quadrennial English-language print journal published by The Japan Society of Mark Twain. It is reproduced here with permission from both author and...
Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on June 18, 2021Apple | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | CastBox | ListenNotes Next month, the Center For Mark Twain Studies will host the 2021 Summer Teachers Institute. This annual event is coordinated by...