June 20, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingThe textual “truth” behind Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. 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… read more
November 11, 2015, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsCelebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Things They Carried 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.
September 3, 2015, Filed Under: CatalogingPaul Gottschalk: the German bookseller who anticipated a contentious Nazi-era elections legacy 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
