Skip to main content
Northern Illinois University Digital Library
  • A-Z Index
  • Directory
  • Calendar
  • Libraries
  • Quick Links
    • Blackboard
    • My NIU
    • Mapworks
    • Huskie Link
    • Office 365
    • Anywhere Apps
    • Qualtrics
    • Huskies Get Hired
    • Student Email
    • Password Self-Service
  • A-Z
  • Directory
  • Calendar
  • Libraries

Advanced Search

Advanced Search

  • Quick Links
    • Blackboard
    • My NIU
    • Mapworks
    • Huskie Link
    • Huskies Get Hired
    • Office 365
    • Student Email
    • Anywhere Apps
    • Qualtrics
    • Password Self-Service
  • Browse
    • Genre
      • Books
      • Photographs
      • Illustrations & Pictures
      • Songs & Sheet Music
      • Manuscripts
      • Letters
      • Articles & Clippings
      • Video Recordings
      • Maps
    • Subject
      • Topic
      • Name
      • Geographic
    • Name
      • Creator
      • Author
      • Composer
      • Publisher
  • Collections
    • Rare Books and Special Collections
      • Nickels and Dimes: Dime Novels From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc
      • Lee Schreiner Sheet Music Collection
    • Regional History Center and University Archives
      • 125th Anniversary Oral History Project
      • Norther Yearbooks
      • W. W. Embree Collection
      • Postcard Collection
      • World War I & II Poster Collection
      • Vanderhoof Family Papers
      • National Emergency Number Association
      • Browse all collections
    • Collaborative Projects
      • Southeast Asia Digital Library
      • Latinx Oral History Project
      • Ritzman Photo Collection
      • Mark Twain's Mississippi
      • Lincoln/Net
      • Illinois During the Gilded Age
      • American Archives
      • Illinois During the Civil War
  • About
    • About NIUDL
      • NIUDL Team
      • Projects & Grants
      • Technology
      • Get Involved
      • Digitization Request
    • Policies
      • Copyright & Usage
      • Metadata
      • Digitization Guidelines
      • Collection Development Policy
      • Digital Preservation Policy
      • Digital Preservation Implementation Plan
  • Twain's Life and Works
    • Introduction
    • Mark Twain's Biography
    • The Idea of the West
    • The Arrival of the Industrial Revolution
    • Cults of Personality
    • A Legacy of Guilt
    • The Great Melting Pot
  • History of the Mississippi River Valley
    • How the Mississippi Became American
    • The Expansion of Commerce and Trade on the River
    • Diplomacy and the Territorial System
    • A Polarizing Border
    • A Cultural Gateway
    • The Golden Age of the Steamboat
    • A House Divided
    • African-Americans in the Mississippi River Valley
    • Native Americans in the Mississippi River Valley
    • From Bedlam to Reform
    • Feminizing the Frontier

Mark Twain's Mississippi

  • Home
  • Primary Source Materials
  • Videos
  • About

Mark Twain's Mississippi Videos

Gregg Camfield, University of California-Merced

  • Samuel Clemens, River Pilot, Part I
  • Samuel Clemens, River Pilot, Part II
  • Horace Bixby
  • River Transportation and Economic Development
  • Steamboat Racing, Part I
  • Steamboat Racing, Part II
  • Samuel Clemens and the Law
  • Remember the Mississippi
  • The Mississippi Changing Course
  • River Life
  • Leaving the River
  • Steamboats and Railroads
  • The Ambivalent Mark Twain
  • Samuel Clemens, The Publishing Business
  • Returning to the River
  • Mark Twain and the Post-war South
  • Retreat of the Steamboats
  • Steamboat Accidents
  • From Samuel Clemens to Mark Twain
  • Olivia Langdon Clemens
  • Christianity and Courtship
  • Mark Twain and the Genteel Tradition
  • Mark Twain and Race Relations
  • Mark Twain and Native Americans

Shelly Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University

  • The Young Sam Clemens
  • Powers of Observation
  • Always a New River
  • Mark Twain and American Racial Attitudes
  • Hartford, Connecticut
  • Myth and Reality inĀ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Bob Hirst, University of California-Berkeley

  • River Pilot as King
  • Life on the Mississippi
  • River Characters
  • Remembering the River
  • Go West
  • Samuel Clemens, Businessman
  • Getting Started as a Writer
  • Mark Twain and American Letters
  • Samuel & Olivia
  • Nook Farm
  • Mark Twain and Slavery

NIU Logo

NIU Home

NIU Links

  • Apply to NIU
  • Visit Campus
  • Directions/Maps
  • Contact Us
  • Emergency Information
  • Accessibility
  • Jobs @ NIU
  • NIUHuskies.com

©2016 Board of Trustees of
Northern Illinois University.
All rights reserved.
Web Site Privacy Policy

1425 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-1000 | univinfo@niu.edu