In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers.
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Researcher publications examine black history and culture
Each year dozens of researchers publish books based on their work at the Ransom Center. For African American History Month we compiled the following selection of recent publications informed by the Center’s collections.
Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights
February 20, 2017, marks the 122nd anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s death. Douglass (1818–1895), an abolitionist and activist for civil rights, was a gifted writer and orator.
Claude McKay and “The White House”
Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. This February saw the release of a previously unpublished Claude McKay novel, Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics).
Stop the presses: Benjamin C. Bradlee papers open for research
The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee are now open for research at the Harry Ransom Center.
Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study
In addition to two portraits by the artist Mary Beale, the Ransom Center’s old master painting St. Jerome in His Study will be exhibited in the newly renovated galleries of the University’s Blanton Museum of Art from February 2017 to February 2019.