An excerpt from Mark Twain's "Roughing It" recalling an otherworldly sight on the afternoon of July 4, 1863 in Virginia City.

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Opinion: Leave duty drawback intact for all industries, and Montanans will keep turning mountain grit into world-class products that carry the Made-in-Montana label across the world.

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The Democratic nominee for mayor has radical ideas—but a strategically conventional wardrobe.

Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

Mark Twain, one of America's greatest writers, is known for his wit, wisdom, and unforgettable characters like Huckleberry ...

There’s so much talk about a culture change in Miami, but one former player wants to be left out of dishing on the Dolphins.

In 1978, William Rueckert coined the term “ecocriticism,” defining it as “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.” He proposed three postulates about literature, ...

Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at ...