Apr 5 | 7pm EST

WHAT WOULD MRS. ASTOR DO? with Dr. Cecilia Tichi, Pieter Roos and Donna Murphy, Mrs. Astor on HBO’s THE GILDED AGE

Tony Award-winning stage, film, and screen star Donna Murphy, who portrays Mrs. Astor on HBO’s hit series The Gilded Age, sits down with Dr. Tichi and The MTH&M Executive Director Pieter Roos for a mannerly conversation on how to put oneself over in Gilded Age society. 

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Apr 6 | 7pm EST

The Trouble Begins on PRINTER’S DEVIL with Bruce Michelson

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Apr 7 | 7pm EST

WOMAN: THE AMERICAN HISTORY OF AN IDEA – Lillian Faderman and Dr. Heather Munro Prescott

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Mark Twain is one of our nation's defining cultural figures.

The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author’s Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. In addition to providing tours of Twain’s restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain’s literary legacy and provide information about his life and times.

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Twain Quotes

  • "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

  • "Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."

  • "The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

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From this house, Mark Twain changed the way the world sees America and the way Americans see themselves. We continue the conversation he began.