December 11, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1, Research + TeachingThe scholarly value of the Gabriel García Márquez archive The Gabriel García Márquez online archive represents an ongoing collaboration with students, professors, and scholars who visited the Ransom Center during the course of the 18-month project to consult the García Márquez papers.
December 5, 2017, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching“A Frightening Time in Our History”: Public reaction to the Pentagon Papers In recent weeks, two separate films have depicted the career of the late Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. The HBO documentary The Newspaperman, which premiered December 4, tells Bradlee’s story through a combination of interviews and archival footage.
December 1, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Take home a little bit of Mexico with vintage travel postcards Mid-twentieth-century travel materials aimed to depict Mexico as an exotic destination The Ransom Center’s current exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945 showcases Mexican art immediately following the Mexican Revolution in 1920 to the 1940s when it entered the American mainstream.