…to himself. He also attributes it to the Clinton-Gore ticket, thus revealing a fatalistic, but nonetheless intense empathy between the essayist and the subjects of “Huck and Tom.” Vidal never…
…(2002) and co-editor of Mark Twain on the Move: A Travel Reader (2009). He has published articles on Mark Twain, humor, and travel writing in Studies in American Humor, South…
…Hall, but also the Credit Mobilier scandal, just as Twain did in The Gilded Age. He became a Mugwump and supported Grover Cleveland, as did Twain. He satirized bigotry against Chinese…
…the Era of Resurgent Bigotry” Seybold, Matt, “What Was Mark Twain Doing The Last Time The Cubs Won The World Series?” Seybold, Matt, “You Could Get Bookings: A Review of…
…the Mason-Dixon line, would have to pass through abolitionist strongholds in Pennsylvania and central New York. He would have to travel nearly four hundred miles through, as he termed it,…
…is written is merely fluid prejudice. Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar from Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897) I arrived in Elmira on July 21, exactly 137 years and a day…
…next door in the Nook Farm neighborhood, and they further widened her world. Together they ate, played, traveled, talked, walked, and gossiped. King was a clever and charming guest and…
…this nearly everyday. How do I prevent my son from making the same mistake? For him it’s not even the deeper problem of unlearning obvious prejudice that has been conditioned…
“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” – Mark Twain, Following the Equator The Mark Twain Circle affirms the courageous citizens who are risking their…
…the worst disease in the 1800s? The yearly death rate In The 1800’s Was 400,000 from Smallpox. During the 18th century, over 400,000 people died annually in Europe from smallpox. Overall fatality…
