With a unique mix of history, culture, sprawling open plains and the dense urban centres, here's what Missouri is famous for.

Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of ...

Populist and patrician, hustler and moralist, salesman and satirist, he embodied the tensions within his America, and ours.

“The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn’t Come to Grief” (1865): The title says it all. Twain wanted to contrast the child in his story to typical Sunday School stories where dire consequences ...

Terry Teachout - profile from The Wall Street Journal. News, articles, biography and photos.

The truth, of words we needed to hear, a voice from the grave echoing across stages all over the word, brought back to try to ...

The blue commemorative designs in Bruton Street, Mayfair, incorporate one of the late Queen’s favourite flowers, lily of the ...

Shania Twain is a renowned Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress who has made an indelible mark in the world of country and pop music. Born on August 28, 1965, in Windsor, Ontario, she grew up ...

Among the reissues on Richard Pryor — I Hope I’m Funny: The Warner Albums (1974-1983) are albums like …Is It Something I Said ...

Misunderstood artists. Legendary music icons. A forgotten Golden Age film star. These life stories deserve space in your ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. — The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum recently announced the appointment of Stacey Mueller as the new Tom and Becky program coordinator. Mueller, who has lived in Hannibal since 2008, ...

A few months ago, it was reported that Shania Twain was partnering with pop singer Gavin DeGraw and his brother, Joey DeGraw, in their bar downtown Nashville bar, Nashville Underground. The DeGraw ...