August 13, 2015, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsInsider’s perspective: The hip and the square This post originally appeared in the August 2006 issue of the Harry Ransom Center’s monthly eNews. How would you update Norman Mailer’s “The Hip and the Square” list for 2015?
July 30, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingThrowback Thursday—Contents of a country: Leicester Hemingway’s Republic of New Atlantis This month 51 years ago, the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway staked a claim to a small piece of land off the Jamaican coast, creating a new currency, flag and government for the fledgling nation of New Atlantis, many artifacts of which are now held at the Ransom Center. This post originally appeared in… read more
July 2, 2015, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsJuly 4, 1862: A Golden Afternoon with Alice and her Sisters Charles Dodgson began to tell the story of a little girl named Alice on an outing with Alice, Edith, and Lorina Liddell on July 4, 1862. He later recalled that “golden afternoon” in a poem that prefaces many editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
