The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...
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Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Acceptance Speech
This excerpt from Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is quite good. Twai ...
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Louisiana Eats: Magnificent Meals Of Conspicuous Consumption
In the late 1800s, industrialization carried the United States into a new era – one of great wealth and elaborate lifestyles ...
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The Stratified Air of Higher Education: From the Gilded Age to a Tale of Today
Join Matt Seybold, Associate Professor of American Literature and Mark Twain Studies, in a conversation about his most recent Season of the American Vandal Podcast, “A Tale of Today”. This season’s ...
Conan O’Brien Wants Us to Be More Like Mark Twain
Speaking of woke, O’Brien noted in his acceptance speech that Mark Twain held characteristics many would classify with that ...