May 9, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingCold War culture Erik Mortenson discusses his book Ambiguous Borderlands and the pervasiveness of shadow imagery in Cold War materials. Ambiguous Borderlands: Shadow Imagery in Cold War American Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016) investigates the role shadows play in Cold War literary and popular texts. Informed by research at the Ransom Center,… read more
May 7, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingScholarship, time machines, and madness by Beth Burns, Hidden Room Theatre Artistic Director John Wilkes Booth’s promptbook for Richard III “Ready trumpet. Boy ready with armor. Take time. More piano. Long flourish continued till discovery, next Sc. – and do not W Till Mr Booth is on stage.”
May 4, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsInterview with Ian McEwan The Harry Ransom Center spoke with Ian McEwan in 2014 about archives, contemporary British fiction, science and the humanities, and where to find paradise on earth. McEwan’s archive is accessible at the Ransom Center.
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingThe archivist’s archive: Visions of the future past Building plans from the 1960s show concepts for office and classroom arrangements for housing the Rare Books Collection, the foundation of the Harry Ransom Center.
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing ArtsLife on the circuit seen through poster repairs Make-do repairs helped preserve the history of vaudeville Collection items that have been selected for exhibition frequently come to the paper lab for repair and stabilization before they are prepared for exhibition. Recently, conservators Kimberley Kwan (above) and Jane Boyd repaired several late nineteenth-century lithographic posters for inclusion in the… read more
April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingTeaching in the archives “Tell me why you think this is in the room,” I ask, pointing to a pair of delicately beaded moccasins on the lower shelf of the display case.
