Podcast Episodes featuring Mark Twain

Sadhguru: Mark Twain and Vedanta at The Commonwealth Club

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - December 22, 2020 23:02 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 273 ratings
Join us virtually for the kind of philosophical conversation Shankara would have enjoyed, the kind captured in the best of the Upanishads, as we explore with Sadhguru the ideas that have intrigued the yogis of India for millennia, and which have seeped into Western culture in bits and pieces thro...

Mark Twain, his adventures and Halley's Comet with Laura DeMarco

Night-Light Radio - December 06, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 9 ratings
LAURA DEMARCO makes her debut with us to discuss her just published and wonderful biography "Mark Twain's America:  Then and Now."  She uses photos of places where Twain visited and how the same place looks today.  During a time when most people did not travel too far from home, Twain visited Ha...

Mark Twain, his adventures and Halley's Comet with Laura DeMarco

NIGHT-LIGHT RADIO - December 06, 2019 03:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
LAURA DEMARCO makes her debut with us to discuss her just published and wonderful biography "Mark Twain's America:  Then and Now."  She uses photos of places where Twain visited and how the same place looks today.  During a time when most people did not travel too far from home, Twain visited Haw...

Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)

New Books Network - December 02, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted repr...

82. Writing with Scissors: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Scrapbooks

Grating the Nutmeg - November 18, 2019 20:04 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings
How did Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemons use scrapbooks to fight unscrupulous publishers who reprinted his work without paying him? Why did celebrities like Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony keep scrapbooks? How did abolitionists, suffragettes, and African Americans use sc...

Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter

Retropod - October 14, 2019 07:00 ★★★★ - 657 ratings
Mark Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine,” as he called it, sometime in the early 1870s.

#450 Mark Twain's Secret Hideout

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa - February 27, 2019 20:21 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 499 ratings
Time to talk about a writer who smoked as much as he wrote.

Mark Twain

Historical Figures - June 13, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4.9K ratings
Most people know Mark Twain as one of America’s most popular writers and humorists. Some even know that as a young man, he was a Riverboat pilot. But did you know that during the Civil War, he volunteered for the war effort to fight for the South?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...

018 - Mark Twain Was Wild!!!

History Hyenas with Chris Distefano and Yannis Pappas - June 10, 2018 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4.9K ratings
Chris and Yannis go wild and talk about everything on their minds, which all circles around to Mark Twain and how WILD he was. We watch a Sloth meet its fate at the hands (claws rather) of a puma and of course we get to hear how Yannis would take Chris' life. WILD!!!

261 Mark Twain World Tour

Tom Rhodes Smart Camp - May 09, 2018 01:24 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 236 ratings
On October 2, 1866 Mark Twain invented stand up comedy, or as he called it "platform speaking." He did not enjoy "mounting the platform" but by 1895 the famous author of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn was in debt from bas investments and publicly disgraced due to his bankruptcy. So to pay off his moun...

PK80, Thanksgiving Sides Bracket, and Mark Few vs. Mark Twain

Screen The Screener Basketball Podcast - November 22, 2017 22:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 172 ratings
Mike and Gus talk Michael Porter Jr. injury fallout, preview the PK80 Tournament, and debate Thanksgiving Sides!     Follow us @STheSPodcast on Twitter.  Rate and subscribe on Itunes, Stitcher, and TuneIn Radio! Listen to short clips from the podcast on you tube at:  https://www.youtube.com/c...

Mark Twain

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - October 20, 2017 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or as we have all come to know him, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, lecturer, and entrepreneur active during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Viewed by many, including William Faulkner, as “the father of American Literature”, Twain’s recognitio...

Ep. 854 Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

The Tom Woods Show - February 21, 2017 19:42 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.2K ratings
The debates and policies that gave rise to American empire occurred at the very end of the nineteenth century, in conflicts that found Theodore Roosevelt and Mark Twain at odds. Author Stephen Kinzer joins me to discuss the transformation of America away from nonintervention and toward empire.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, “Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo” (e-Penguin, 2016)

New Books Network - April 03, 2016 21:46 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Jeffrey Wasserstrom‘s wonderful new book in the “China Specials” series at Penguin opens with two main premises. First, it is more important than ever to have “illuminating lenses through which to view the People’s Republic of China,” especially ones that help us make sense of the ways that the P...