October 23, 2017, Filed Under: UncategorizedHarry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection. The collection was started in the early 1970s by Dean Echenberg, a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War who later became the director of disease control for the… read more
October 23, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts“The Attempt to Keep Day and Night Together” An interview with Dean F. Echenberg on his war poetry collection The Ransom Center is the new home for the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, a collection of more than 6,500 volumes of poetry related to people’s experiences with war. The collection was begun in the early 1970s by… read more
October 19, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church In May, the Ransom Center acquired two volumes of Ambrose’s Opera (or Works) in Latin. The edition was published in Basel in 1567. What is most compelling about these particular books, however, is less the writings of the Church Father, as such, and more their story as books.
