With generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Harry Ransom Center recently completed a two-year project to preserve through digitization more than 3,100 unique sound recordings covering a broad range of political, social, literary, and artistic topics. These recordings join another 4,000 previously digitized audio files,… read more
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Archival Fever offers a collaborative model for humanities research
by AMY VIDOR and CAROLINE BARTA This essay is part of a slow research series, What is Research? Introducing a podcast: Welcome to Archival Fever![1] In each episode, your intrepid hosts take you into the archive in search of the wild, crazy, and bizarre … We’re becoming doctors in literature, Ph.D.s… read more
Celebrating Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally, who authored more than 80 plays, musicals, and opera librettos before he died earlier this year (read Texas Monthly’s tribute) was born on this day in 1938 in St .Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from high school in Corpus Christi, Texas, and became one of the most respected American playwrights… read more