Among others, Madison was referring to the civic virtues the ancient Greeks had identified hundreds of years earlier. The ...

If this winds up being the final Kennedy Center Mark Twain Humor Prize, it couldn't have gone out in a bigger, funnier and ...

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

The Board of Governors (BOG) that oversees the University of North Carolina’s sixteen constituent institutions has created a ...

Six Bay Area researchers slammed recent funding cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration in a strongly worded lawsuit ...

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

The comedian and host of 'Conan O'Brien Must Go' spoke about the latest season of his Max travel show, his recent Mark Twain Prize and acting in his first feature film.

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 ...

The speech ended with Will Forte as Twain dialoguing ... that this might be the last Mark Twain Prize given. If true, it surely ended on a beautiful note. Keeping with Conan for a moment ...

This speech was a necessary answer to that ... s ethos - shredding on guitar alongside Adam Sandler, a mob of Mark Twain impersonators (including Will Forte) joining them on stage.