May 22, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Conservation, Exhibitions + EventsBefore and After: Mark Twain’s Bible While writing Innocents Abroad, Samuel Clemens (known more familiarly as Mark Twain) carried a Bible during a trip to Constantinople in 1867. The book is now part of the Ransom Center’s collections and can be seen in the exhibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence, which runs through… read more
May 8, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsMaking It New: The Bible and Modernist Book Arts Although the focus of The King James Bible: Its History and Influence is on the 400th anniversary of the Bible, the occasion presented an ideal opportunity to display early English Bibles from the Ransom Center’s collections and some of the finest examples of modern book design featuring Biblical texts. Co-curators… read more
April 20, 2012, Filed Under: Film"What you are about to see is unrehearsed and uncensored" “Whether you agree or disagree with what you will hear, we feel that none will deny the right of these views to be broadcast.” -Mike Wallace Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program Night Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised… read more
