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 …
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 …
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 …
February 16th, 2018 marks the quasquicentennial of University of California Press, celebrating 125 years of scholarly publishing since its founding on this day in 1893. Throughout this time, UC Press remained one …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We’re celebrating University Press Week #UPWeek by taking part in their scholarly press blog tour through this Friday. Today’s blog tour theme is “#TBT – Throwback Thursday” (featuring our contributed post below); …
By Harriet E. Smith, Associate Editor, Mark Twain Project Samuel L. Clemens, 1851 or 1852. Reproduced from a print in the Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library, University of …