Presents Mark Twain's 1876 children's book about the adventures of a mischievous Missouri boy named Tom Sawyer, growing up a few decades before the Civil War; also includes essays by American writers Edgar Lee Masters and William Dean Howells.
A collection of archival photographs that explores the history of Mississippi steamboats and their social and economic role in river life from 1870 to the end of World War I.
A young boy living in mid-nineteenth-century Missouri relates the many adventures that he and his friend, an escaped slave, experience as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
A graphic novel adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel that depicts the adventures and misadventures of a young boy who attempts to help Jim, a runaway slave, find freedom in the North.
An adaptation of the classic novel in which Huck, fleeing his murderous father, and Jim, an escaped slave, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.
His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle, in the swamps of the Mississippi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church.
