Mark Twain invested heavily in the Paige Compositor typesetting machine. This investment contributed to his significant ...

Color can make a century-old photograph feel startlingly modern—but the stories behind these images are even more remarkable. One of Mark Twain’s final portraits was taken after he predicted that he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Twain wrote literary classics such as "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," but as Ron Chernow's hefty biography of him shows, he ...

Free History on Elm programs will return to Columbia with presentations on Mark Twain, Osage art, Route 66 and Missouri history.

Crews at Mark Twain Lake are using a targeted "hack and squirt" method to clear overgrown timber and protect critical summer ...

Bill Maher has been confirmed as the recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, with the Kennedy ...

Mark Twain had a gift for making uncomfortable truths sound almost effortless, and one of his most enduring observations about character does exactly that: “Do the right thing.

Adam Sandler has been named the recipient of the 24 th Mark Twain Award for American Humor, considered one of the most prestigious honors in comedy. According to the Kennedy Center, the Mark Twain ...

Comedian, actor, writer and entrepreneur Kevin Hart is the winner of the 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Considered the highest honor in funny business, previous recipients have included ...

In a scene from Mark Twain’s 1873 novel, “The Gilded Age,” a hard-up, Pollyannaish type named Colonel Beriah Sellers launches into a blustering sales pitch. He’s concocted a little something he calls ...

There are decisions that feel risky in the moment but become stories we are grateful to have lived. Then there are the decisions we never make—the job we never applied for, the place we never moved to ...