Ransom Center Magazine

About Danielle Brune Sigler

Sigler has curated exhibitions on literary censorship during the interwar years, the King James Bible, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Her work has appeared on the New York Times Disunion blog, The Daily Beast, Time.com, and in African American Review and she is co-editor of the anthology The New Black Gods. Sigler oversees the Center’s lecture series, publications, and fellowship program. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies and an MSIS in Information Science.

On survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr

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In April 1958, the American Broadcast Company (ABC) began a special 13-part series of The Mike Wallace Interview devoted to “discussing the problems of survival and freedom in America.” Wallace’s first guest in the series was Reinhold Niebuhr, who Wallace introduced as “a Protestant minister, one of the most important and challenging religious thinkers in the world.” [Read more…] about On survival and freedom in 1958 America: Mike Wallace and Reinhold Niebuhr

A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

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In the midst of research for The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door exhibition, my former colleague Molly Schwartzburg alerted me to an unpublished manuscript she had located in the collection of writer and editor Christopher Morley (known today for his novel Parnassus on Wheels and his work on the editorial board of the Book-of-the-Month Club). [Read more…] about A newly identified work by writer and poet Fenton Johnson

Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

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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. [Read more…] about Frederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights

Claude McKay and “The White House”

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This February saw the release of a previously unpublished Claude McKay novel, Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin Classics). [Read more…] about Claude McKay and “The White House”

A young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish”

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Through its digital collections portal, the Harry Ransom Center has made available a remarkable example of juvenilia from its Charles Lutwidge Dodgson collection. [Read more…] about A young Lewis Carroll, “musing on milk” and “reasoning on rubbish”