February 21, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Research + TeachingFrederick Douglass and the Mass Meeting for Civil Rights February 20, 2017, marks the 122nd anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s death. Douglass (1818–1895), an abolitionist and activist for civil rights, was a gifted writer and orator.
April 21, 2014, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFall symposium to explore American cultural life during Civil War The Ransom Center announces the 11th Flair Symposium, “Cultural Life During Wartime, 1861–1865” to take place September 18–20. The symposium is organized in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s upcoming fall exhibition, The Making of Gone With The Wind, which opens September 9. In the 75 years since the film’s release,… read more
