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When I was a seventh grader, I was sure about one thing, that in college I would be quarterbacking UCLA. As it happened, I ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place.

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

I certainly don’t mean to be rude or disrespectful to one of my literary heroes. It might be asking too much to bring back Mark Twain from the grave. The great author passed away on April 21, 1910, ...

In 1905, in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of the Philippines, a war that raged between the American military and insurgents fighting for their independence, the beloved American writer and ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow is known for writing massive biographies of the country's most enduring figures, including Ulysses S. Grant and Alexander Hamilton. So it comes as no surprise ...

Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died on this day in 1910. As a columnist who has often covered the last moments of the famous and great, this medical historian can say ...

The reputation of the fourth estate has waxed and waned over the course of American's history, sometimes thanks to the criticisms of public figures — including members of the press itself — ...