M ore than a century after his death, Mark Twain remains one of the most recognizable voices in American literature—the ...

Nestled at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers, Marietta isn’t just Ohio’s oldest city – it’s like someone took a ...

Life skills is an elective course in which her lessons cover a broad scope, including how to count back change ... a Mississippi riverboat tour and a final stop in Hannibal [Missouri], “the setting of ...

Marietta, Ohio is exactly that kind of revelation – a riverside treasure where history doesn’t just sit behind glass cases ...

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

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

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

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

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...