Captain America inspired an entire generation of fans with a quote about standing up for what’s right, but there’s a dark ...

As Bill Carter writes, this Thursday’s Season 2 premiere of 'Conan O’Brien Must Go' is reason for fans to celebrate. Not that there’s been a shortage of those recently.

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Biographer Ron Chernow was evidently short on time ...

The comedian received the Kennedy Center's 26th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Fred Armisen appeared in video bumpers portraying people from O'Brien's past – Harvard’s dean of students ...