January 30, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events“Hasty and exuberant” decoration in the Ransom Center’s Gutenberg Bible The Ransom Center’s two-volume Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display. Every few months the Center’s staff changes the opening, allowing visitors to see different pages and to protect the volumes from overexposure to light.
January 26, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmScreenwriter David Hare, scholar Deborah Lipstadt discuss Denial In 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued scholar Deborah Lipstadt on the grounds of libel for her book Denying the Holocaust (Penguin, 1993). The case went to court in the United Kingdom, where Lipstadt and her legal team found themselves having to legally prove that the Nazis had systematically exterminated… read more
January 19, 2017, Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events“The Library of the Future” Helen Shenton, Librarian and College Archivist of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, presents “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library” on Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. CST. This event will be livestreamed via the Harry Ransom Center’s Facebook page.
