April 4, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Meet the StaffLois Kim Appointed Chief Development Officer for the Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has selected Lois Kim to lead its comprehensive development program aimed at advancing the Center’s strategic initiatives.
March 10, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsThe Knickerbocker Theatre Collapse by HANNAH NEUHAUSER In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922. The scrapbook and testimony are available for research in the… read more
March 8, 2023, Filed Under: Featured1On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age Exhibition organized by Harry Ransom Center graduate research assistants sheds light on black creators from the collections whose work exemplifies the spirit and history of jazz. The music of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, photographs of jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Dexter Gordon, a jazz-inspired essay by Langston… read more
