President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, having been assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
Digital Collections
The Digitized Dylan Thomas: The single word as thing, dropped on to the page
“To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’ – and – rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.”
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Digital archaeology at the Ransom Center
Digging up computing histories in literary manuscript collections
“Una historia de Cien años de soledad a través de sus documentos”
“El problema es mío”, confesó García Márquez a un amigo por carta en julio de 1966, “que después de tantos años de trabajar como un animal, me siento agobiado de cansancio, sin perspectivas ciertas, salvo en el único terreno que me gusta y no me da de comer: la novela”. [Read more…] about “Una historia de Cien años de soledad a través de sus documentos”
A history of One Hundred Years of Solitude in documents
For the Harry Ransom Center’s Digital Collection on the fiftieth anniversary of One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded the Ransom Center a “Recordings at Risk” grant for $24,600, supporting the project “Preserving the Interview Recordings of Mel Gussow, American and British Theater Critic.” The Ransom Center holds the Gussow (1933-2005) papers. [Read more…] about Mel Gussow’s interviews with actors, playwrights, writers, and directors to be digitized
