“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...

When the Civil War broke out, Twain spent a few weeks ... While there, Clemens began to write again -- and adopted the pen name "Mark Twain." A term used in river navigation, "mark twain" means ...

Carver has had added to the play over time. While living in Richmond, Virginia, he created a piece called "Mark Twain: Civil War." "Twain is talking about the time he actually almost met General ...

And Mark Twain, who grew up during legalized slavery, witnessed the Civil War, and then experienced the changes thereafter, was fully alive to possibilities and challenges of this time of social ...