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May 2013

University appoints Stephen Enniss as new director of the Ransom Center
Sherlock Holmes's Infinite Case-book
Notebooks reveal James Salter's creative process

April 2013

J. M. Coetzee papers open for research
The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door: A Portal to Bohemia, 1920-1925 web exhibition
J. M. Coetzee’s association with The University of Texas at Austin

March 2013

Researching Austen in Austin
View photo booth images from "Face to Face"
Explore the First Photograph and the Gutenberg Bible online

February 2013

Sara Coleridge's Pretty Lessons in Verse: Nineteenth-Century Flash Cards
On the Road actors used audio recordings from Ransom Center's collections to prepare for roles
Ransom Center offers summer undergraduate internships

December 2012/January 2013

English Honors seminar course on David Foster Wallace gives undergraduates a look into Wallace's archive
Fellowship applications due February 1
Purchase Norman Bel Geddes merchandise

October 2012

Penguin Books and the Paperback Revolution
View photos from "FutureLand"
Ransom Center accepting applications for research fellowships in the humanities

September 2012

From the Outside In: A Visitor's Guide to the Windows
Foundations of modern cartography now online
First Photograph travels to Europe for first time in more than 50 years

July/August 2012

Salvador Dalí's rendition of a Lewis Carroll classic at the Ransom Center
Ransom Center names chief curator of photography
Join or renew your membership for complimentary tickets to "FutureLand"

June 2012

The Adventure of the Immortal Detective: Discovering Sherlock Holmes in the Archives
More than 50 fellowships provide opportunity to research at Ransom Center
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A children’s classic lives on through many editions and sequels

May 2012

T. C. Boyle writes about visiting the Ransom Center in The New Yorker
Los Angeles Times highlights T. C. Boyle archive at the Ransom Center
Papers of lawyer and civil liberties advocate Morris L. Ernst re-open for research

April 2012

Ransom Center acquires T. C. Boyle archive
There really is "Something About Arthur": A peek into Charlotte Brontë's childhood
Special effects pioneer Tom Smith donates archive

March 2012

Test your knowledge of King James Bible quotes
The Atlantic magazine profiles the Ransom Center
From buildings to books to tattoos: The language of the King James Bible

February 2012

Occupy Wall Street 1939 AD
Registration open for The David Foster Wallace Symposium
Ransom Center acquires two portraits of Spalding Gray

December 2011/January 2012

Ransom Center acquires contemporary tintype collection
Encouraging Discovery: A Video Introduction to the Harry Ransom Center
Two sorority sisters from Texas inspire Graham Greene to establish Anglo-Texan Society

November 2011

Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee's archive acquired
A glimpse into J. M. Coetzee's bound drafts: Life & Times of Michael K
Fleur Cowles archive donated to the Ransom Center

October 2011

Photographer Elliott Erwitt's archive to be housed at the Ransom Center
View photographs from "Uncensored" event
Author busts keep watch over scholars in the Reading Room

September 2011

Follow the progress of the conservation of the Gone With The Wind dresses
Archive of Rebel Without a Cause director acquired by the Ransom Center
Ransom Center now accepting applications for research fellowships

June 2011

Q&A: Playwright Tony Kushner speaks to the Ransom Center about the influence of Tennessee Williams
Ransom Center announces 2011-2012 fellowship recipients
In video, Director Thomas F. Staley stresses importance of humanities

May 2011

Preview archival materials from David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel The Pale King
Ransom Center receives collection of miniature books
View photographs from Director's Welcome and Member Open House

April 2011

Series of events celebrate 35th anniversary of All the President's Men
What's in your desk?
Bust documents creative process for sculpture of W. E. B. Dubois

March 2011

Jorge Luis Borges muses on his desert island book selections
View photographs from "Wild at Heart" opening event
Digital collection highlights photos taken in Corpus Christi, Texas, during Great Depression

February 2011

Plate painted by Picasso donated by photojournalist David Douglas Duncan
Staley to remain director of the Harry Ransom Center
Primp My Book: A brief history of the customized reading experience

December 2010/January 2011

Work on Gone With The Wind dresses begins with study of stitching and construction
Ransom Center acquires Spalding Gray archive
"The Proper Binge": Julia Child in the Ransom Center's archives

November 2010

Elaborate embroidered Bible tells many stories
Video of David Foster Wallace event now available online
Updated version of Guide to the Collections now available online

October 2010

View photos from "A Picture Perfect Evening" event
David Foster Wallace archive opens for research
Ransom Center now accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships

September 2010

Author Denis Johnson's Papers Acquired By Harry Ransom Center
Gone With The Wind fans donate $30,000 to preserve original costumes
Every now and then you have to think outside the box

July/August 2010

Magnum Photos collection now open
View finding aid for Magnum Photos collection
European popular imagery collection now accessible online

June 2010

Book of Hours, Part II
Web exhibition explores B. J. Simmons & Co. costume designs
Medieval and early modern manuscripts collection now accessible online

May 2010

A small gem of negativity: The decline postcard
Ransom Center director announces plans to retire
Book of Hours, Part I

April 2010

Ransom Center acquires David Foster Wallace archive
Before and After: Conservation department repairs a poster from Houdini collection
Wall Street Journal profiles Ransom Center

March 2010

View photos from the red carpet premiere of Making Movies
Learn more about J. D. Salinger materials at the Ransom Center
Insider's Perspective: John Cage Uncaged

February 2010

Magnum Archive Collection comes to the Ransom Center
A student's survey of the Bieber collection
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis letters donated to the Ransom Center

December 2009/January 2010

Beginner's Guide to Existentialism
Become a member to attend Making Movies opening event
Charles Darwin and Sir John Herschel: The Fossil Record of a Relationship

November 2009

View and download PDFs of all Reading Poe posters
New information unearthed on Victorian "blood book"
Inside the London Review of Books collection

October 2009

Who's reading Poe?
View trailers for the Poe Film Series
Jose Guadalupe Posada: Printmaker to the Mexican People

September 2009

From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
View the Ransom Center's new blog, Cultural Compass
"No Symbol Where None Intended": Samuel Beckett's Doodles
Ransom Center now accepting 2010-11 fellowship applications

July/August 2009

The Curse of the "Great Omar"
Ransom Center receives Big Read grant
Props for Robert De Niro's props

June 2009

View video documentary "A World of Interest: Frida Kahlo's Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird"
View list of 2009-10 research fellows and their topics
Frida Kahlo's Diego y Yo

May 2009

Robert De Niro collection now open for research
The Write Tool
View audio slideshow about Robert De Niro collection on CNN.com

April 2009

Web exhibition highlights work of Sanora Babb
Ransom Center acquires collection of African, African-American, and Native-American literature
Read Fritz Henle's 1989 article "Paris 1938: A Story in Pictures for LIFE Magazine."

March 2009

The story behind Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait"
Fritz Henle materials on display at Austin airport
Learn more about Fritz Henle: In Search of Beauty

February 2009

The mystery of the Victorian Blood Book
Literary honors for Ransom Center authors
Join the Ransom Center on Facebook

December 2008/January 2009

View Flickr photos from 2008 Flair Symposium
Learn more about research fellowships
Ransom Center acquires new collection of Ezra Pound materials

November 2008

The '68 conventions through Norman Mailer's eyes
2008 Flair Symposium
Join the Ransom Center on Facebook

October 2008

Art installation features period from Beckett manuscript
Learn more about research fellowships at the Ransom Center
Visit the Ransom Center's new YouTube channel

September 2008

Become a fan of the Ransom Center on Facebook
Listen to Sebastian Barry and Alan Furst read from their new novels
Watch a video preview of The Mystique of the Archive

July/August 2008

Tennessee Williams correspondence acquired
Center acquires John Steinbeck letters
A Window of Art

June 2008

View list of 2008-09 fellowship recipients
Learn more about Inside El Salvador exhibition
View slideshow about Inside El Salvador

May 2008

Watch Episodes of The Mike Wallace Interview
View photos from the scroll party
Learn more about the Bebop Revolution

April 2008

View books recommended by Director Thomas F. Staley
Listen to a podcast with "Scrollmaster" Jim Canary
View slideshow from Through the Lens Clearly: Icons and Images

March 2008

View slideshow from Beat Love Poems event
Learn more about On the Road scroll manuscript
Where in the world is Frida Kahlo?

February 2008

View slideshow of Elizabeth Hardwick items
Learn more about On the Road with the Beats
View Ransom Center's new website

December 2007/January 2008

View photos from the Texas Book Festival
Anatomy of an Archive
View photos from the Dress Up photo booth

November 2007

Tony Kushner visits the Ransom Center
The Ransom Center in Literature
Apply for a fellowship at the Ransom Center

October 2007

View photos from the Dress Up photo booth
Texas House of Representatives investigates purchase of "obscene" books
Ransom Center images examined in New York Times

September 2007

Ransom Center acquires new Graham Greene materials
Dress Up: Portrait and Performance in Victorian Photography
Journey of an Archive: Accessioning, Archiving, and Cataloging

August 2007

The Hip and the Square
Ransom Center announces interns for 2007-08 academic year
Grant funds cataloging of New York Journal-American collection

July 2007

Contents of a Country: Leicester Hemingway's New Atlantis
View photos from Ransom Center gala
Ransom Center receives design awards

June 2007

Ransom Center announces 2007-08 fellowship recipients
Georgia high school student taps Ransom Center for Ezra Pound project
Author Q&A: James Salter

May 2007

Robert De Niro visits Ransom Center
Ransom Center acquires David Mamet archive
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein visit the Ransom Center

April 2007

Interrogation of a Spy Novelist: Inside Alan Furst's Papers
View photos from the American '20s Music Series
Affaire Dreyfus: Ideology in Postcards

February 2007

Journey of an Archive: Bugs, Mold, and Conservation
The American Twenties exhibition
Teaching the American Twenties website launches for educators

January 2007

Curator's Pick: Binh Danh's "Chlorophyll Prints"
Ransom Center hosts "The Legacy of Watergate: Why It Still Matters"
Ransom Center celebrates 50th anniversary

December 2006

Ransom Center acquires Taxi Driver costume
Curator's Pick: Das Kapital
Mellon Foundation grant helps preserve French materials

November 2006

View items from the Topolski exhibition
Visit Fathoms From Anywhere: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition
Learn more about fellowship opportunities

October 2006

View slideshow of Arnold Newman images
Ransom Center acquires materials related to Woody Allen
Ransom Center acquires Arnold Newman archive

September 2006

Insider's Perspective: "The Sweet Smell of Provenance
Buy Hollywood Life, a collection of Eliot Elisofon photographs
Learn more about the exhibition Norman Mailer Takes On America