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Tag: Twain and Civil War

Cushman’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available

Cushman’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Center for Mark Twain Studies

Cushman explores how Twain shaped the genre of memoir in the nineteenth century and today

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Lecture on Twain and the Civil War in Elmira

Lecture on Twain and the Civil War in Elmira

Posted on May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 by Joe Lemak

Shirley Samuels, Cornell University, focuses on Twain’s uncomfortable writing about the the conflict in LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

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