The bottom half of this postcard—one of many images in the Harry Ransom Center’s Tony Pastor collection—reveals a lot about the early days of vaudeville.
Fellowships
Fellows find: Letters of St. John Ervine, playwright for a tumultuous Ireland
I visited the Harry Ransom Center for two weeks to access the collection of St. John Ervine (1883–1971), an enigmatic, occasionally-forgotten figure who nonetheless casts a spell over a select band of Irish scholars and historians. His personal story fuses both the culture and politics of his Ireland.
Ransom Center accepting applications for research fellowships in the humanities
The Ransom Center invites applications for its 2017–2018 research fellowships.