In addition to running for president, Victoria Woodhull said scandalous things about Connecticut's Henry Ward Beecher.

Note: Niece Jenny Clemens, daughter of Orion and Molly Clemens who died at the young age of nine in 1864, is buried in Carson ...

COMMENTARY: Though known as America’s great humorist, Twain called his novel on Joan of Arc the ‘best of all my books.’ ...

I’m a Mark Twain fan, liking him as much as a person as for his writing. He was boastful, proud, and self-deprecating at the same time—and everyone seemed to like ...

Donna Abercrombie of Munster invited me to attend a Sept. 9 luncheon with the lure of her “special guest speaker being Mark Twain.” ...

As a lecturer on river cruise ships I often tell stories of Mark Twain, His life was filled with amazing adventures, failures, and people. Seldom do we associate him with sports but as you can read in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Ron Chernow talked about Mark Twain's early life as a riverboat pilot, how he became a journalist and how he met ...

Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, wrote several iconic works in a study at Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. The study was repeatedly threatened by vandalism, brush fires, and litter from ...

REDDING — Book lovers from across the region headed to the Mark Twain Library’s 64th annual Book Fair, which began Friday and continues throughout the Labor Day weekend. The sale offers over 60,000 ...

Mark Twain’s novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published in 1884, is sometimes banned because of its constant use of the horrific term “nigger,” yet it is the least racist book imaginable.

On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols on the military in the cities, and Adam Hochschild on Mark Twain. Jon Wiener Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without ...