June 8, 2020, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, FilmTHE QUEEN Lewis Allen was a respected theater and film producer. His biggest hits on stage were Annie (1983), I’m Not Rappaport (1985), A Few Good Men (1989), and Master Class (1995). His films include The Connection (1961), The Lord of the Flies (1963), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966). But, when Allen’s daughter Brooke donated her father’s archive to the Ransom Center in 2006, she told me… read more
June 5, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Meet the StaffMany Years Later: Three Readings of One Hundred Years of Solitude With equal parts clarity and gilded nostalgia, I recall the first time I read the opening line of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to… read more
June 4, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe most meaningful statements are actions The Harry Ransom Center community mourns the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Michael Ramos, and the countless other victims of police violence and institutional racism. We condemn in the strongest terms the police brutality and racial injustice directed toward people of color, and affirm that… read more
June 1, 2020, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, PhotographyThe Conservation of Daguerreotypes: Objects in Mirror are More Complex than They Appear One of many strengths in the Ransom Center’s collections is early photography. In addition to the earliest surviving photograph produced in a camera, The Niépce Heliograph, the Center holds many beautiful examples of daguerreotypes.
May 30, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1How Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña–Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred… read more
May 28, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1CONFLICT IN THE MARGINS: The Controversy Over the First Catholic Bible in English The Ransom Center is home to a collection of over 4,000 items related to a persecuted religious minority: the “recusants,” English Catholics who refused to participate in the Church of England, as mandated by English law from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
