Charles Ives never forgot the sights and sounds of the village cornet band marching to the cemetery in Danbury, Conn., on Decoration...
Mark Twain liked a good meal, a good cigar and a good cocktail. During a trip to Europe in the 1880s, he...
Alfred Winslow Jones had been a spy, a sociologist, a magazine writer and a Communist before he invented the modern hedge fund...
The Mark Twain burglary of 1908 is remembered for the witty notice the author tacked onto his dining room door for the...
Mark Twain made a painful confession that didn’t come to light until 100 years after his death, in 2010. He’d been flattered,...