Now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the exhibition Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River brin...

A cover of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: a Christmas and New Year's present (c. 1852) Courtesy of the Library Company An 1895 ...

“To find someone writing in English, who, like Gore Vidal, distinguished himself as a historical novelist, a commercial playwright, a politi...

Guest blog post by Shelley Fisher Fishkin , the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studi...

Guest blog post by Alice Fahs , professor of history at the University of California, Irvine and author of Out on Assignment: Newspaper Wome...

Guest blog post by Arthur Goldwag , author of The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right American letters has had ...

Within a year of settling his family in London in 1872, Ambrose Bierce published two collections of his San Francisco writings, dozens of hi...

Joshua Foer opens his entertaining new book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by describing how 2,...

The beginning of the year prompts moments of reflection. Looking back on 2010 The Library of America has been heartened by the warm receptio...

Two weeks into January marks the unofficial date by which all the various resolutions so hopefully made on January 1 have been quietly forgo...

We’ve just learned that Louis J. Budd, one of America’s foremost Mark Twain scholars of the twentieth century, died Monday, December 20, acc...

Weeks after it was first published in February 1885, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured its first censorship attempt when the Conco...

On his 175th birthday Volume One (of three!) of the Autobiography of Mark Twain seems to be everywhere. On NPR . C-Span . Slate . And The N...

Source: Detroit Public Library In time for Thanksgiving, The Library of America’s Story of the Week is Mark Twain’s “ Hunting the Deceitf...

Mark Twain was among the painters and writers asked in 1883 to contribute sketches and letters to be auctioned at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fun...

Today is the birthday of George Washington Cable. Born in New Orleans in 1844, Cable fought as a youth as a Confederate calvalry trooper in ...

Since 1982, bookstores and libraries across the country have celebrated Banned Books Week (September 25 to October 2), commemorating the Fir...

The recent spate of articles over President Obama’s summer reading prompts an inquiry into how well acquainted our presidents have been with...

A recent PBS NewsHour segment on the preparations at the University of California Press for the publication this November of Volume One of ...