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Encyclopaedia of Civil Rights in America
Entries identify key leaders, organizations, events, and strategies of the Civil Rights movement
Was Huck Black?
Published in 1884, Huckleberry Finn has become one of the msot widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley …
Race: The History of an Idea in America
When Tom Gossett's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the …
The Black Press
In a segregated society in which black scholars, writers, and artists could find few ways to reach an audience, journalism was a means of dispersing information to communities …
Lighting Out for the Territory
Mark Twain has been called the American Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway maintained that `all modern American literature comes from one book by …
Writing America
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that …
A Horse's Tale
At the turn of the twentieth century Minnie Maddern Fiske, a New York actress, socialite, and animal rights activist, wrote to Mark Twain with an unusual request: for Twain to …
Is He Dead?
The University of California Press is delighted to announce the new publication of this three-act play by one of America's most important and well-loved writers. A highly …
A Historical Guide to Mark Twain
Mark Twain (born Samuel Clements), a former printer's apprentice, journalist, steamboat pilot, lapsed Confederate soldier and miner, remains to this day one of the most enduring …
Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
Longtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left …
From Fact to Fiction
Scholars and students of American literature or journalism.