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A novel discovery

April 7, 2019 - Austin Downey

While doing research in the John Herrmann collection during her fellowship at the Ransom Center, Sara Kosiba found a manuscript of an unpublished 1925 novel. Titled Foreign Born, it tells the story of Ernst Weiman, a German immigrant living in the fictional town of Fairbanks, Michigan during World War I. [Read more…] about A novel discovery

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: German, John Herrmann, Publishing, war

Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation

February 27, 2019 - Suzanne Krause

Commemorate World Poetry Day with a reading and conversation between two award-winning contemporary poets whose lives and writings have been impacted by war. [Read more…] about Poetry and War: A Reading and Conversation

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Featured1 Tagged With: Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection, poet, poetry, war

American publishing during the Cold War

February 19, 2019 - Austin Downey

In Amanda Laugesen’s new book, the novel is an object of war. In Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), Laugesen tells the story of Franklin Publications, a publishing company created in 1952 as a joint project between American publishers and the USIA. Amid the scramble for influence during the Cold War, Franklin was tasked with disseminating books that promote American ideals throughout the developing world. [Read more…] about American publishing during the Cold War

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowship, literature, Publishing, war

The textual “truth” behind Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried

June 20, 2017 - John Young

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Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The book depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer. The Harry Ransom Center holds the author’s archive.

[Read more…] about The textual “truth” behind Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellowships, fiction, Field Trip, history, Houghton Mifflin, literature, Macalester Today, magazine, McCall’s, memoir, On the Rainy River, Playboy, soldier, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, truth, Vietnam, war

Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Things They Carried

November 11, 2015 - Alicia Dietrich

2015 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. [Read more…] about Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Things They Carried

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: archives, literary archives, literature, National Book Award, soldiers, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Veterans Day, Vietnam War, war

Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

September 3, 2015 - Robert Taylor

Paul Gottschalk. Unknown date and photographer.

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 [Read more…] about Paul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy

Filed Under: Cataloging Tagged With: 1930s, 1932, antiquarian, Berlin, bookseller, collector, elections, ephemera, Finding Aid, German, Germany, Gottschalk, history, Hitler, Jews, Nazi, war, WWI

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