Eutsey’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Eutsey discusses religious liberalism’s strong, but often times neglected, influence on Twain and his writings
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Eutsey Kicks Off The 2022 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series
Lecture takes place Wednesday, October 5 at Quarry Farm (7:00pm)
Hartford Announces Trouble Begins Lecture
Former Quarry Farm Fellow, Dwayne Eutsey, gives a lecture for the Mark Twain House and Museum on September 1
The Alternative Facts of 1863: Mark Twain’s “A Bloody Massacre Near Carson”
“Fake news” isn’t really anything new. Robert Darnton points out in a recent essay in the New York Review of Books that “the concoction of alternative facts is hardly rare, and the equivalent of today’s poisonous, bite-size texts and tweets can be found in most periods of history, going back to the ancients.” As noted previously in this blog, in his early career as a journalist Mark Twain dabbled in this […]
An Amazing Job: Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, & President…Garfield
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 notice.” Quibbles over the President’s use of the present tense aside, most would agree that Douglass did in fact accomplish something amazing in escaping slavery to become a leading abolitionist and visionary social reformer/statesman during […]