New school programs offered!

Our new listing of educational programs for students and teachers is out – and it’s a doozy! We now offer a two-part Advanced Placement (AP) program, Mark Twain: An American Life, 1835-1910; provide a special hands-on tour, Everyday Life in Mark Twain’s Hartford; and have significantly revised several of our other popular programs, including our collaboration with the neighboring Harriet Beecher Stowe Center: Stowe & Twain: Effecting Social Change.

The AP Mark Twain program gives older students an in-depth exercise in the analysis of primary sources, with the focus on race and imperialism in Twain’s era. Everyday Life gives students in grades 3-5 a real feeling for life in the Gilded Age, connecting their lives with the lives of children of the past. Effecting Social Change is an extension of this already successful program that includes tours of both the Stowe and Twain homes.

Other programs have been updated, such as Sam’s Biographies (close looks at the people around Mark Twain) and Serving the Clemens Family (which focuses on the work done by the servants in the house). Some fees for school groups have also been revised.

And if you can’t come to us, we’ll come to you. For details, go to our Schools pages.

For student group tour information or reservations please use our Online Registration.
You may also contact Caitlin Thayer at 860-280-3154 or email her at Caitlin.Thayer@MarkTwainHouse.org.

Please call at least 2 weeks in advance of your visit and have multiple dates in mind before calling. All tours are booked on a first come, first served basis.

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