Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...
Twain describes Huckleberry Finn as "idle, and lawless, and vulgar, and bad," qualities for which he was admired by all the other children in the village, although their mothers "cordially hated and ...
American history is not always pretty. Sometimes it’s hard to accept that, but it is true. As Americans, there are blemishes there we don’t like the mirror to remind us of. For over 130 years, “The ...
For decades, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was celebrated in popular culture as a boys’ book and lauded as the cornerstone of American literature. Then it was attacked for repeating a ...
Mark Twain was not quite 50 when he published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in February 1885, and in so doing, changed American literature. Until then, many of our writers had flirted with ...
— Salem Community College will host a lecture on the ongoing controversies surrounding Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Joseph Coulombe, associate professor of English at Rowan ...
Twain's classic, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," remains one of the most-challenged books in America. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is one of the most-challenged books in ...
Mark Twain’s 1885 novel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has for generations been the center heated debate over whether its content was racist, or emblematic of the times in which it takes place.
In 2011, America has real race issues. Self segregation is especially prominent here in metro Detroit. According to people like demographer Kurt Metzger, who study these things, we are in the most ...
Considered the first great American novel, part of Finn's charm is the wisdom and sobering social criticism deftly lurking amongst the seemingly innocent observations of the uneducated Huck and the ...
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