April 14, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Digital CollectionsAbraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, having been assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
April 12, 2019, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmEarly special effects Leslie DeLassus is a film historian and instructor with a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Iowa. While working on her Ph.D, DeLassus came to the Ransom Center to research early film special effects innovator, Norman O. Dawn, and his groundbreaking work.
April 9, 2019, Filed Under: AuthorsRachel Cusk’s papers acquired The papers of acclaimed author Rachel Cusk (b. 1967) have been acquired by the Ransom Center.
April 9, 2019, Filed Under: AuthorsThe Weather of Domestic Life The Ransom Center acquires the papers of Rachel Cusk. Below, Cusk describes her writing process. When I was writing my first novel I frequently dreamed that the house I was living in was on fire and that I was unable to rescue the manuscript. I took this same manuscript with… read more
April 7, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingA novel discovery While doing research in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel. Titled Foreign Born, it tells the story of Ernst Weiman, a German immigrant living in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan during World War I.
April 1, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingWeird Fiction James Machin is the author of the book Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 (2018). Machin was a 2014-2015 fellow at the Ransom Center. While here, he spent time researching the Arthur Machen, M.P. Shiel, and John Buchan archives. Machin utilized those materials for his Ph.D thesis, and later book, on… read more
