Lecture Series Audio Recordings

David Fears, Independent Scholar
The Making of Mark Twain Day By Day: Rudyard Kipling Meets Mark Twain
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Mark Woodhouse Elmira College
A Look at the Collections of the Mark Twain Archive
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Abraham Kupersmith, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, Emeritus
Twain and Freud on Personality and Politics
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Steve Courtney Independent Scholar
“This Damned Fool’s Example”: The Rifts Between Mark Twain
and Joe Twichell
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James E. Caron University of Hawai'i
Mark Twain, Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter
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M. Thomas Inge Randolph-Macon College
Hank Morgan on Film: Adaptations of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Jeffrey Steinbrink, Franklin & Marshall College
Did Quarry Farm Matter?
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Forrest Robinson, Professor of American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz  
The Author-Cat: Bad Faith in Clemens’s Life and Work
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Tom Quirk; Professor of English at the University of Missouri – Columbia  
How Mark Twain changed his very own mind
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Peter Krass, Independent Scholar  
Mark Twain: His Business (Mis)-Adventures
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Gary F. Scharnhorst; Distinguished Professor of English, University of New Mexico 
 Mark Twain Interviews; The Final Report 
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Terrell Dempsey; Independent Scholar 
 Searching for Jim: Slavery in Sam Clemens's World
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Laura Skandera Trombley; President, Pitzer College
Mark Twain's Annus Horribilis of 1908
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University
The “War-Prayer” Revisited: A Text for Our Time
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Hal Bush, Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University
Mark Twain and Spiritual Crisis 
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Joe Fulton, Associate Professor of English, Baylor University
The Reverend Mark Twain: “This Career of Sparkling Holiness, Usefulness, and Health-Giving Theological Travel”
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J. Michael Pratt, Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Elmira College
A Fossil Guide to Mark Twain's Essay "Was the World Made for Man?"
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Philip Ashley Fanning, Independent Scholar, San Francisco, CA
Mark Twain, Orion Clemens, and the Mysterious Stranger
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Donald Hoffman, Independent Scholar, Kansas City, Missouri
Sailing to Bermuda with Mark Twain
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Stephen Railton, Professor of English, University of Virginia
Mark Twain, Virtually
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David Caplan, Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University
“That Grotesque and Laughable Word, Patriotism”: Rethinking Mark Twain on Patriotism
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Steve Courtney, Independent Scholar, Hartford, CT
Joe Twichell’s War: How Mark Twain’s Good Friend and Confidant Handled Three Tough Years in the Army of the Potomac
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Bruce Michelson, Professor of American Literature, University of Illinois
Mark Twain and the American Media Revolution
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