The Harry Ransom Center is pleased to share the news that we received a $17,930 grant from the Austin Community Foundation.
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Undergraduate internship opportunities
During the 2017–2018 academic year, the Harry Ransom Center will host a group of Thos. H. Law and Jo Ann Law undergraduate interns.
“Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible
The Ransom Center’s two-volume Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display. Every few months the Center’s staff changes the opening, allowing visitors to see different pages and to protect the volumes from overexposure to light.
Screenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial
In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued scholar Deborah Lipstadt on the grounds of libel for her book Denying the Holocaust (Penguin, 1993). The case went to court in the United Kingdom, where Lipstadt and her legal team found themselves having to legally prove that the Nazis had systematically exterminated… read more
“The Library of the Future”
Helen Shenton, Librarian and College Archivist of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, presents “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library” on Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. CST. This event will be livestreamed via the Harry Ransom Center’s Facebook page.
Meet the Staff: Andi Gustavson facilitates teaching with the collections
Meet the Staff is a Q&A series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. An alumnus of The University of Texas’s American Studies doctoral program, Andi Gustavson first came to the Harry Ransom Center as a graduate intern.