December 22, 2015, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Exhibitions + EventsExplore Shakespeare’s first folio online The publication of the First Folio in 1623 marks the proper beginning of Shakespeare’s works becoming widely known, read, and performed by successive generations, his reputation enduring 400 years after his death.
December 9, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingCommitment to collecting Going back to the origins of research libraries, there is a long history of scholars building collections to suit personal interests, constructing around themselves an athenaeum of books that supported their individual research goals.
December 3, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: Manuscripts reveal internal battles of Civil War novelists writing outside the “moonlight and magnolias” school Dr. Niall Munro, Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, was a fellow at the Ransom Center during the summer of 2015. His research was supported by the Fred W. Todd Southern Literature Endowment Fund. Munro is at work on a book entitled “Our only ‘felt’ history”: American… read more
