Guests examined the history of post-Civil War Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and race relations through the writings of Mark Twain. Ms. Fishkin is the author of [Lighting Out for the Territory].

Robert Hirst, general editor Mark Twain Project, holds the first page of "A Family Sketch", a recent acquisition for UC Berkeley, in the Mark Twain Papers vault at the Bancroft Library at UC ...

More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...

Letters sent from Mark Twain to his brother and sister-in-law from 1865. AP Twain was likely 29 years old when he started filing near-daily columns for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have uncovered and authenticated a cache of stories written by Mark Twain when he was a 29-year-old newspaperman in San ...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired… ...

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More than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876), “Life on the ...