During the 2017–2018 academic year, the Harry Ransom Center will host a group of Thos. H. Law and Jo Ann Law undergraduate interns. [Read more…] about Undergraduate internship opportunities
Archives for January 2017
“Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible
The Ransom Center’s two-volume Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display. Every few months the Center’s staff changes the opening, allowing visitors to see different pages and to protect the volumes from overexposure to light. [Read more…] about “Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible
Screenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial
In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued scholar Deborah Lipstadt on the grounds of libel for her book Denying the Holocaust (Penguin, 1993). The case went to court in the United Kingdom, where Lipstadt and her legal team found themselves having to legally prove that the Nazis had systematically exterminated millions of people. [Read more…] about Screenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial