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In the 1980s, the Harry Ransom Center received a scrapbook from John and Vera Hills along with an extraordinary unpublished account of their survival of the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapse in Washington, D.C. on January 28, 1922.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
November 16, 2022, Filed Under: Research + TeachingA Greek fragment is the first-known New Testament papyrus written on the front side of a scroll by GEOFFREY S. SMITH A Fragment Makes History A few months ago, I received a much-anticipated email that read, “The courier is scheduled to deliver the Willoughby Papyrus to the Ransom Center tomorrow.” The next morning, I anxiously watched as members of the Center’s conservation staff carefully removed from the… read more
July 25, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1, Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsInterpreting “Fringe” in the Mel Gordon Papers Mel Gordon’s Notes on Expressionism with 1917 clipping, Mel Gordon Collection, Box 12, Harry Ransom Center. by MACAELLA GRAY In 2018, The New York Times lauded historian, curator, and writer Mel Gordon as a “drama scholar of the fringe.” At first glance, the so-called “fringe” certainly seems to find a… read more
