September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingComing out of the archives Coming Out of the Archives is a selection of materials curated by students in my spring 2017 Queer Archives class. The materials can be seen in the Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition that features rotating highlights from the collections. [Editor’s note: the items are no longer on view, as… read more
July 17, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingHelp us meet this year’s goal for a National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted, “No campus library in the U.S. mounts exhibitions to rival those of the University of Texas at Austin’s special-collection library, the Harry Ransom Center.”
July 5, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsInstructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible As many readers of this blog will know, Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust’s Biblia latina (Mainz, 1454–1455) represents the first substantial book printed from moveable type on a printing press. Without question, it is a milestone in information technology. And yet, it is important to remember that
