May 31, 2019, Filed Under: Authors, Digital Collections200 years later, Walt Whitman’s legacy continues to grow Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819, and amid a panoply of planned festivities, his bicentennial has renewed popular interest in Whitman’s legacy. What has Whitman left us in our twenty-first century? Whatever he has bequeathed to us culturally, what’s certain is that 200 years after his birth,… read more
May 24, 2019, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsGutenberg Misbound When Johann Gutenberg and his team published their Bible in the mid-1450s, what they were selling to buyers were sets of sheets, sheets of either paper or parchment that had text printed on them. What they were not selling were books—not, at least, if we take “book,” as we usually do,… read more
May 10, 2019, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellowships awarded to 51 scholars The Ransom Center has awarded 51 fellowships for the upcoming year to postdoctoral, dissertation and independent researchers studying such diverse topics as civil liberties, nineteenth-century Latinx arts and literature, cookbooks, and more.
