Mark Twain’s book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” about a mischievous Missouri boy and his friends – including Becky Thatcher ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer's latest book delves into the life, complexities and sardonic humor of a man who ...

The scene that I found often completely captivated, convinced and captured many of my students was in Chapter 15 ...

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Author Ron Chernow, who has penned numerous biographies on historic Americans, spoke at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

John Bird, Mark Twain and the Conflicted Metaphor of Nature, The Mark Twain Annual, Vol. 17, No. 1, Special issue: Mark Twain and Nature (2019), pp. 129-139 ...

Serious nonfiction can rack up big page counts – cozying up to Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page Mark Twain biography could feel like entering into a long-term committed relationship with the author.

In fact, this is an old problem. Countries have enlisted God or gods on their side in conflicts since ancient times. One egregious example was the First World War, when politicians and clergy on both ...