After the lights went down in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on March 23 to signal the beginning of the Mark Twain Prize ...

In the late 1800s, industrialization carried the United States into a new era – one of great wealth and elaborate lifestyles ...

This period was one of rapid change ... The city of Hartford grew in this time as a leader in manufacturing many of these goods. And Mark Twain, who grew up during legalized slavery, witnessed ...