September 8, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingTeachers mine Ransom Center archives for lesson planning gold With the support of UTeach Liberal Arts and the Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas, University of Texas at Austin professor Elon Lang led a one-week workshop at the Harry Ransom Center this summer called “Teaching from the Archives.” It gives educators first-hand experience with the resources of the Ransom… read more
September 3, 2015, Filed Under: CatalogingPaul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy The Ransom Center’s recently-processed archival collection titled “1932 German Elections Ephemera Collection” was assembled in the 1930s by the German-American book seller Paul Gottschalk. The sequence of events that the collection documents—that is, the rise of Adolf Hitler to
September 2, 2015, Filed Under: Research + TeachingRansom Center accepting applications for research fellowships in the humanities The Ransom Center invites applications for its 2016–2017 research fellowships. More than 50 fellowships will be awarded for projects that require substantial onsite use of the Center’s collections, supporting research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
