Mark Twain

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• 4/26/2020
  

  Historic Houses Turn to Technology Amid COVID-19 Closures

  by Hana Hancock

  Historic home sites have responded to the COVID crisis by developing online exhibits. More work remains to be done, and many cultural and historical institutions are in financial peril from the crisis, reports HNN's Social Media Editor. 

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6-19-18
  

  Mark Twain Claimed He Got His Pen Name From a Riverboat Captain

  He may have actually gotten it in a saloon.

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• 10-1-17
  

  The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer

  by Robin Lindley

  Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and U.S. expansionism at the end of the 19th century.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  3-19-17
  

  The Woman Mark Twain Thought Was the ‘Most Interesting That Ever Lived’

  by Gil Troy

  As one of the few female founders of a major denomination in the 19th century, Mary Baker Eddy was a major figure—but her life was so much more.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5-5-15
  

  Scholars Discover 150-Year-Old Letters Written by Mark Twain

  The Mark Twain Project found about 110 dispatches written in 1865 and 1866.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  12-19-13
  

  The Solid Nonpareil

  by Lewis H. Lapham

  Why no Mark Twain for our second Gilded Age?

• SOURCE: Tikkun
  6-7-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: Protecting Children and Faith

  Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history at New York University and lives in suburban Philadelphia. He is the author of Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory (Yale University Press).In 1907 Mark Twain published a scathing attack on Christian Science, which held that all illness lay in the mind. In his trademark satirical style, Twain congratulated the religion for providing “life-long immunity from imagination-manufactured disease.”The other kinds of disease were real, Twain insisted, and their victims required medicine – not prayer – to get better. But Twain also condemned the growing movement to prosecute faith healers and parents for withholding medical care from children who died.A century later, we know much more about what makes people sick and well. As Twain understood, though, we still need to balance the protection of children with the religious liberty of their parents. And that’s why we should retain narrowly crafted laws exempting parents from child-abuse charges if they resist medical care for religious reasons....