April 24, 2018, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Featured1, Research + TeachingDigital archaeology at the Ransom Center Digging up computing histories in literary manuscript collections
April 17, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Multilingual readers in Shakespeare’s England I visited the Harry Ransom Center last July to research bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, grammars, and language manuals printed in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
April 16, 2018, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1, Theatre + Performing ArtsVaudeville Film Series runs throughout May During the month of May, the Ransom Center hosts the free Vaudeville Film Series in conjunction with its exhibition Vaudeville!, which is on display through July 15. For more than a century, vaudeville was the most popular form of American entertainment and one of the country’s largest cultural exports.
April 12, 2018, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe Humours of Whist, a sophisticated play by David Levy After a fruitful visit to the Harry Ransom Center in January, I tweeted, “Who would have thought that I’d run into a Thomas J. Wise “sophistication” in my Hoyle research @ransomcenter?” Like so many tweets, this is a bit tough to parse. Let’s break it into pieces:… read more
April 11, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsParnassus on Wheels On National Bookmobile Day, the American Library Association celebrates the 930 bookmobiles in the United States that provide library services to their communities, an important form of library outreach that has been ongoing for more than 100 years.
April 5, 2018, Filed Under: ConservationNEH helps to break the sound barrier Rare sound recordings to be preserved and made accessible with grant For the first time, sound recordings documenting the work and lives of notable cultural figures such as Julia Alvarez, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Norman Bel Geddes, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, and Gloria Swanson will be publicly available for research.
