More than 6,300 of the nation's top high school speakers are headed to Des Moines next week for the National Speech & Debate ...

Jobs spent months trying to figure out what to say to Stanford’s graduates. Newly released materials show how he went from hopelessly flailing to delivering a talk for the ages.

Trump praised McKinley in his inaugural speech to a second term, claiming that McKinley “made our nation very rich through ...

America's best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry ...

Along with punching out impressive drum parts, he brought Tolkien, Twain and Wilde to bear on the world of prog. Here are ...

You know Mark Twain’s story. You’ve got no excuse not to; there have been so many biographies. Starting in the American South ...

Let us consider, then, some of the movies released in the summer of 2000.

Mark Twain around the time he wooed and wed Olivia ... “as other children play with a toy,” writes Chernow. During a speech in Utica, NY, in 1870, he stood silently on stage for several ...

Ron Chernow’s sweeping new biography explores how the “Huckleberry Finn” author became such a fixture in American literature and life, despite his failings ...

In it, Mark Twain wrote “Adventures of Huckleberry ... s Court”, along with umpteen other stories, articles and speeches. Twain spent his most productive summers on his wife’s family ...