Given the realities of sheltering in place, audiobooks offer an alternative way to access books. UC Press has several titles available in audiobook including Mark Twain’s autobiographies, a lucid text that is …
Read More >On December 14th, 1915, Red Fox James, a member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, arrived in Washington DC, concluding a yearlong cross country trip by horseback. Red Fox James had spent …
Read More >September 23 – 28 is 2019’s Banned Books Week. Held annually since 1982 and sponsored by the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Association, Banned Books Week is celebrated “in shared …
Read More >By Kerry Driscoll, author of Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples At the heart of Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is a paradox grounded in the …
Read More >The delightful story below is from the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3, and it captures so many aspects of Mark Twain’s personality, including his love of animals and his ability to …
Read More >Mark Twain had a lifelong fascination with technology. He was eager to investigate—and invest in—new technologies of his time, from the early typewriter to the telephone. He also was an inventor himself, …
Read More >Have you ever wondered what someone else was thinking about at a certain point in time? Thanks to Mark Twain’s dictation style for his extraordinary Autobiography, we know that on this day in …
Read More >By Harriet E. Smith, Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project Photograph by William Vander Weyde, 21 September 1906. Most images we have of Mark Twain from 1906 show him …
Read More >You can pick almost any subject and find Mark Twain’s opinions expressed on it somewhere. Thanksgiving is no exception. In an address given at the first annual dinner of Philadelphia’s New England Society …
Read More >Mark Twain liked to entertain and be entertained, but his 70th birthday party was truly an evening to be remembered. Thrown by Colonel George Harvey, the editor of Harper’s Weekly, at Delmonico’s …
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