September 10, 2015, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + EventsListen: Meet the curious cantor of Frank Reaugh’s The Singing Shepherd of Acoma One of our patrons’ favorite features about our current exhibition Frank Reaugh: Landscapes of Texas and the American West is the “guide by cell” audio tour for visitors. This audio tour lets visitors call in and hear informational snippets about the paintings. In the audio tour, Ransom Center Curator of Art Peter Mears… read more
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
