Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

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

Yet, by the 1890s, Twain had lost much of his fortune in poor investments and economic fiascos with his publisher. In 1885, ...

It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there." ...

A British university has issued a "trigger warning" on Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" because of its “problematic" slave-era violence and language.

So rich and full was the life of Mark Twain, born Sam Clemens, that it requires two hours-plus to tell the full tale [adapted from Twain's works, and Harold M. Sherman's play Mark Twain, by Alan ...

In winter 1819, a natural entrance to a cave was found just south of Hannibal, Mo. One of its visitors in the early 1840s was a young resident who was fascinated by what he saw.

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. 237 Views Program ID: 530186-1 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Interview Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

(CBS News) "The Adventures of Mark Twain" isn't the actual title of the memoir by the author of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."But the story of how this book is finally coming to be ...