February 14, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsStop 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.
February 5, 2017, Filed Under: Art, ConservationConservation 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.
February 1, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsAustin Community Foundation grant assists forthcoming Mexico Modern exhibition The Harry Ransom Center is pleased to share the news that we received a $17,930 grant from the Austin Community Foundation.
January 31, 2017, Filed Under: Research + TeachingUndergraduate 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.
January 30, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events“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.
January 26, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmScreenwriter 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
