The Humorous Heart of America Every year, we celebrate the birthday of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), America’s ...

Mark Twain’s stories feel like an old friend who keeps reminding us why we fell in love with reading in the first place. Every year on November 30, readers pause to honor a birthday that changed ...

Twain's enduring relevance owes less to nostalgia than to the precision with which he exposed the patterns shaping ...

Tucked between limestone bluffs and the mighty Mississippi River lies a place where your cell phone signal might falter, but your sense of wonder will soar – welcome to Elsah, Illinois, the tiny ...

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The last tow of the 2025 Upper Mississippi River navigation season departed St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, November 25. The M/V ...

The Mississippi River Trail runs 3,000 miles for bikers between Minnesota and Louisiana. Today, all municipalities along the Great River Road have signed off on making the trail's Wisconsin portion ...

In the vein of his earlier trademark biographies on George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Alexander Hamilton, Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow’s latest is a comprehensive look at the life and ...

A common question about Viking travelers is what age is typical. I’d guess the mid-point is in the late 60s. But I saw people in their 20s traveling with family, and others in their 80s. You get to ...

Mississippi State's Favour Nwaedozi looks up towards the basket before scoring two of her team-high 18 points Thursday night. / Mississippi State Athletics Mississippi State women’s basketball team ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is 'determined to reconcile with and learn from ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – In a neutral site gymnasium, it took until 2:38 remaining of an Iowa State blowout for a mostly Cyclone crowd to enjoy a Hilton Coliseum favorite: The Juicy Wiggle. T.J.