The American Vandal, a Podcast from The Center for Mark Twain Studies, Launches with Episodes on Bleeding Kansas, The Sandwich Islands, & Dracula
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Tag: Mark Twain
“The Viral Twain” at Virtual C19: Dissent
We are sponsoring a panel on “The Viral Twain” at the virtual meeting of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists later this month.
Conejo Players Theatre Producing “Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam & Eve” For Audiences Nationwide
The oldest volunteer theater company in California brings David Birney’s adaptation of Mark Twain’s Eden diaries to your screen of choice.
Amy Kaplan & The McDonaldization of Mark Twain
Amy Kaplan’s scholarship presents important challenges for Twain Studies.
The Blue Jays Play Their Home Opener On The Site of Mark Twain’s Buffalo Boarding House
The first Major League Baseball game in Buffalo since 1885 has multiple connections to Mark Twain.
The Apocryphal Twain: “Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
A new installment of Matt Seybold’s “Apocryphal Twain” series focuses on an aphorism often attribued to Mark Twain and George Carlin, but with actual orgins in midcentury cinema.
Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”? (from KeepingClassics.com)
A Kansas teacher explains how this early Mark Twain story appeals to the interests of contemporary students.
Need Some Summer Reading? Here Are The Most Popular Essays From Our First Four Years.
25 of our most popular posts since 2016.
Black Lives Matter at Quarry Farm
In “A True Story,” written at Quarry Farm in 1874, Mark Twain frankly acknowledges his ignorance of black experience. Larry Howe discusses how Twain uses the story to check his own privilege and amplify the voice of a black woman, Mary Ann Cord.
Mark Twain Circle of America Issues Statement of Solidarity With Protesters Against Police Brutality
“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 health and safety to protest police brutality. We stand in solidarity with the Black and Brown communities whose suffering under systemic racism exposes the vicious underbelly of American culture. We call on government agencies to uphold the social contract – […]