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New Documentary focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo

New Documentary focuses on Twain’s Time in Buffalo

by admin | Apr 30, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Thomas Reigstad on November 26, 2018 For over three decades I poked around in the area of Twain’s connection to my hometown, Buffalo, NY. I spent countless hours in the Grosvenor Room of the Central Library in downtown Buffalo flipping through...
Twain For Teachers: Market Your Own Patent Medicine

Twain For Teachers: Market Your Own Patent Medicine

by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: John Pascal on July 13, 2017 Editor’s Note:  This is the first in what we hope will be an ongoing series focused on adapting Twain to the classroom. If you have an assignment, activity, lesson plan, syllabus design, or pedagogical narrative which...
Twain for Teachers: 88 Days In The Mother Lode Documentary

Twain for Teachers: 88 Days In The Mother Lode Documentary

by admin | Apr 29, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: John Pascal on September 24th, 2018 It is safe to say that most secondary school students know Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn from their novels. But they do know less of the enormous variety in Mark Twain’s literary output and the extraordinary...
Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”? (from KeepingClassics.com)

Twain for Teachers: Why not Mark Twain’s “A Medieval Romance”? (from KeepingClassics.com)

by admin | Apr 28, 2025 | Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Deborah Eades McNemee on July 28, 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE: This post originally appeared atKeepingClassics.comand is excerpted with permission from the author. The Center for Mark Twain Studies has embedding some supplementary materials which may...
A Short Film About Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism Finalist For Indiana History Day Contest

A Short Film About Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism Finalist For Indiana History Day Contest

by admin | Apr 27, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Center for Mark Twain Studies on July 26, 2022 To The Country Sitting In Darkness: Mark Twain’s Satirical Debate On American Diplomacy (2022) The Culver Academies in northern Indiana have a proud tradition of producing Twainiacs. Hal...
Editor’s Re:Marks Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual

Editor’s Re:Marks Introduction to the 2020 Mark Twain Annual

by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study, Twain for Teachers

Originally posted by: Ben Click on November 17th, 2020 When I started this column in May 2020, I focused solely on the COVID-10 pandemic (over 120,000 US deaths and 450,000 worldwide at that time), the need for institutions of integrity such as the World Health...
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