If you come by MarkTwainStudies.org today, you’ll notice we have a fresh new design.

When we launched two years ago, we relied on a webmaster with limited coding skill who was literally colorblind (aka, me).

As the site grew, existing materials got buried and new opportunities eclipsed our technical capabilities.

No longer. 

Paul Stonier Design has created a better looking and more functional site, and will continue to consult for CMTS going forward.

Even more exciting than the new look, however, is that you now have access to a fully-searchable digital edition of David Fears’s MARK TWAIN DAY BY DAY.

As many of you know, David’s immense chronology of Samuel Clemens’s life, published between 2008 and 2014, is a unique reference. We are incredibly grateful to Mr. Fears for entrusting us with the fruit of his exhaustive labors, as well as to Leslie Myrick, who converted the print volumes to HTML (another Herculean task). 

Until now, there has been relatively limited access to the print volumes of DAY BY DAY. We are thrilled to be able to make them available to students, teachers, independent scholars, and all varieties of Twainiac. We can’t wait to see what they do with this resource.

There will, of course, be some trouble-shooting with the new site over the coming weeks. Please let us know if you run into any technical difficulties. 

Happy browsing!

- MS

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Matt Seybold
Assistant Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies
Elmira College
Editor, MarkTwainStudies.org
MattSeybold.com