The complete online text of Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain.

An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...

In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...

There's finally some agreement in this unusual presidential election: Both candidates' won points for their speeches Wednesday night. A sampling of UW-Madison political science professors generally approved of Vice President Al Gore's words of concession and president-elect George W. Bush's acceptance speech....

Civic Center Park is just across the street from the Wesley Senior Towers where Naomi Culp lives. Traveling by walker, it's no small journey. But love of country proved stronger than the pain of arthritis for Mrs. Culp. And just as she...