by admin | May 12, 2025 | 150 Years of Innocents Abroad, Digital Editions
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on May 10, 2022 A few weeks ago the New York Times’s Moscow Bureau Chief, Anton Troianovski, reported on “the furor over suspected pro-Western sympathies” in St. Petersburg following the censoring of a poster displayed at the...
by admin | May 2, 2025 | Digital Editions, Mark Twain in Elmira, The Archive
Originally posted by: Matt Seybold on September 16, 2019 In her recent salute to Mad Magazine, Barbara Schmidt alluded to the rare pamphlet, Drinking With Twain, self-published by Frank E. Kelsey. The Center for Mark Twain Studies is in possession of one of the five...
by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | Digital Editions, The Archive, The Study
Originally posted by: Charles Neider on May 10, 2022 Originally published as an English-language pamphlet in May 1960, Mark Twain & The Russians is a collection of three articles published in the Soviet periodical, Literaturnaya Gazeta, translated and bookended...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | Digital Editions
Originally posted by: Frederick Douglass on August 2nd, 2021 This following speech was delivered at “Hoffman’s Grove” (which is now called Grove Park) in Elmira on August 3rd, 1880, as part of a celebration of the August 1st anniversary of the adoption of the...
by admin | Apr 24, 2025 | Digital Editions
Originally posted by: Nathaniel Ball on September 20th,...