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 ...

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

Joyce Carol Oates will discuss her new suspenseful psychological thriller “Fox” at the Mark Twain House & Museum on June 20.

Mark Cuban happens to be not only a great businessman, he’s also one who’s clearly at least attempting to be a driving force ...

In 1978, William Rueckert coined the term “ecocriticism,” defining it as “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.” He proposed three postulates about literature, ...

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate ...

The Gilded Age takes some creative liberties with its storytelling, but many of the plots, characters and events are rooted ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it are getting the National Constitution Center’s ...

The show was written and originally performed by Hal Holbrook. TheaterWorks Hartford will host the first production of the new national tour featuring the Emmy Award-winning Thomas on Aug. 12-24 ...

You wake up to an alarm, flick on the light, brew coffee, and drive to work. Every step requires energy – the stuff that shares the coin of physical reality with matter, the E in E = MC2.

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his field almost since he first got his doctorate at Yale University when he was ...