May 30, 2020, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1How Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude became a classic Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña–Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred… read more
May 28, 2020, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1CONFLICT IN THE MARGINS: The Controversy Over the First Catholic Bible in English The Ransom Center is home to a collection of over 4,000 items related to a persecuted religious minority: the “recusants,” English Catholics who refused to participate in the Church of England, as mandated by English law from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
May 4, 2020, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + TeachingFellowships awarded to 56 scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 56 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers from around the world. The 2020-2021 fellows reflect the global stature of the Center’s collections, representing 15 U.S. states and eight countries, with more than half traveling from abroad.
