October 31, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsCreepy, macabre, and bloody: Halloween assignment illustrates breadth of Ransom Center’s collections Bethany Johnsen is an undergraduate intern at the Ransom Center who has been working with Cline Curator of Literature Molly Schwartzburg to gather materials for students for a visit on Halloween. For the students in University of Texas at Austin English Professor Janine Barchas’s freshman honors seminar, a Ransom Center… read more
October 27, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: Propaganda poster protesting Nazi book burnings On May 10, 1933, a series of coordinated book burnings took place across Germany. In the academic sphere, the German Students Association’s staged burnings were an attempt to eliminate “un-German” works from university libraries. Addressing the students gathered in Berlin, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels encouraged them to “clean up the… read more
October 25, 2011, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsIn the Galleries: "The Harp Weaver" by Edna St. Vincent Millay In 1923, Edna St. Vincent Millay was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1921). That prize-winning book was an expanded commercial edition of the poems in this volume. The longer book was published by Harper and Brothers and contained these poems, another poem published… read more
