December 11, 2019, Filed Under: Conservation, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe science behind the Blaeu World Map Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. A one-of-a-kind 17th-century map housed at the Ransom Center for decades, currently too fragile to display, is now the subject of an intensive research and conservation project that will utilize scientific analysis to reveal the hidden story behind… read more
December 5, 2019, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Arthur Miller’s archive opens to researchers The complete archive of Arthur Miller, one of America’s most acclaimed playwrights, is now available for teaching and research use at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
November 1, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + TeachingNew digital resources launch online for study of human rights Thousands of digitized records reflecting major historical events of the 20th century related to PEN International, a global writers’ organization, are available online beginning this month.
October 22, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsCelebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919.
October 15, 2019, Filed Under: ConservationPreserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects In partnership with imaging specialists and conservation scientists across the country, in summer 2019, the Harry Ransom Center undertook a project to ensure the longterm preservation of The Niépce Heliograph, the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura.
September 26, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsWhy are some books collected and others merely read? During the latter half of the nineteenth century, cheap and shoddy reprints of Jane Austen’s novels brought her work to the general public.
