Ken Burns has been making documentary films ... The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The ...

Follow a timeline of key events in Mark Twain's life.

If you watched all of Ken Burns’ documentaries back to back ... founder of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “The idea for the country music documentary was born ...

Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...