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# Harry Ransom Center

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## Harry Ransom Center


## Harry Ransom Center


* ![A page from Booth's promptbook](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73f136983790f057/698932c4e76ad2222e6323e0/mss_boothjw_richard_iii_074.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 11, 2018  
### [These Handwritten Notes Came From John Wilkes Booth. Here’s How They’re Helping a Modern Theater Company](https://time.com/5308073/john-wilkes-booth-promptbook/)  
"We almost certainly would not have this promptbook had its owner not been so morbidly interesting"  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham of the Washington Post](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt715bc4e677b35ed2/6988f96722fb851101e247c6/pentagon-papers.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 25, 2018  
### ['A Frightening Time in Our History': What Americans Really Thought About the Pentagon Papers](https://time.com/5117565/bradlee-archives-pentagon-papers-reactions/)  
The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee offer unique insight  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Caption: Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Worship, 1943, offset color lithograph on paper; Texas War Records Collection, 85.170.158  
Caption: Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Worship, 1943, offset color lithograph on paper; Texas War Records Collection, 85.170.158](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt06410d880fd68fa3/6988e54bab6d7777646b08ff/veterans-day_four-freedoms-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 10, 2017  
### [How FDR's 'Four Freedoms' Inspired Americans During World War II](https://time.com/5018128/war-posters-four-freedoms/)  
Roosevelt’s words served as powerful inspiration in the years to follow, and artists explored and dr...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Folios 348 verso and 349 recto, showing the end of Wisdom and the beginning of Sirach \(Ecclesiasticus\)](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt056fdc74305d3f6e/6988dff47cdbaca024d5a43d/folios-348-verson-and-349-recto.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Oct 2, 2017  
### [The Gutenberg Bible Comes With Reading Instructions](https://time.com/4962733/reading-aloud-gutenberg-bible/)  
In addition to the marginalia indicating what to read, there is punctuation within the biblical text...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Gabriel García Márquez working on “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” 1965](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadd54a97a054c461/6988cf8afb4eac27628923cc/marquez.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 31, 2017  
### [The Personal History Behind 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'](https://time.com/4799254/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-documents/)  
Gabriel García Márquez had serious doubts about whether the novel was good at all  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
* ![Gabriel García Márquez with his wife and sons; date unknown.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef41a9fd9daba276/6988bd1b656a3f1d20bcf094/young-family-portrait.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 6, 2017  
### [Gabriel García Márquez’s Life in 100 Pictures](https://time.com/4691754/gabriel-garcia-marquezs-100-pictures/)  
An archivist responsible for digitizing the author's personal photos reflects on the process of sele...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![A scene from 'Mad Men'](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd7dc74288df98f2b/6988b5925f570f2f43b23bfd/mms4ep412_sc03_1107.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 13, 2017  
### [As Show's Collections Go to Archive, 'Mad Men' Head of Research Shares Her Process](https://time.com/4634575/mad-men-researcher/)  
"Born decades later, I felt like I was able to experience the event as it unfolded"  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![The iconic red rectangular TIME logo with the word 'TIME' in white, bold, uppercase serif letters.](/images/missing-image-1x1.svg)  
Oct 19, 2016  
### [How You Can Read the Magazine That Lewis Carroll Produced as a Teenager](https://time.com/4534385/rectory-magazine/)  
Charles Dodgson edited the magazine and produced the majority of the content. The magazine also incl...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![War of the Worlds](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19a2c245c75c50b0/6988a6f5428a9e87cecd4566/war-of-the-worlds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 21, 2016  
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The year 2016 marks two Wellsian anniversaries, that is the 150th anniversary of Wells’s birth and t...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Ana Magnani \(Italian, 1908-1973\). Buffo\!, ca. 1950s. Pencil on paper. 8 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches; 5 5/16 x 4 inches.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f39f365e71e2ce4/69889a1b656a3f39ccbcc1b3/art_williamst_2_14_001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 30, 2016  
### [How Tennessee Williams Bridged Pop Culture and Fine Art](https://time.com/4388601/tennessee-williams-painter/)  
The <em>A Streetcar Named Desire</em> playwright was also a painter—and a muse to his artist friends  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)  
* ![Mary Cornwallis West](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3e4a618d18808b4/698895e23c16397afe45d7bf/web_mrs-cornwallis-west-dressed-in-furs.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jun 1, 2016  
### [The Moral Uproar Caused by the 'Professional Beauties' of Early Photography](https://time.com/4354164/professional-beauties-history/)  
“Anything the ingenuity of the camera-man could devise to produce an original or startling effect wa...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Program for the P.E.N. Club Book Ball held at the Hyde Park Hotel in London on Nov. 30, 1926](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14a1551de1dc3153/69888dea2dce01023d9e883b/timthumb-php.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 6, 2016  
### [An International Advocacy Group for Freedom of Expression Started as a Social Club](https://time.com/4283444/international-pen/)  
P.E.N. International was established in London during the early 1920s  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![David Foster Wallace letter](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd81b769056270b9d/69887e53cf40a843d0c420c5/dfw.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 23, 2016  
### ['Infinite Jest' at 20: Letters Reveal David Foster Wallace's 'Icky' Anxiety About the Book](https://time.com/4230499/david-foster-wallace-20-years-infinite-jest/)  
The novel was published 20 years ago, in February of 1996  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, &amp; tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies, 1623. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, author; John Heminge, approximately 1556-1630, editor; Henry Condell, -1627, editor; Carl Howard Pforzheimer , 1879-1957, former owner; Newdegate family, former owner; Roger Payne, 1739-1797, binder.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbe92461b30190e08/6988778a8e060160ab463fa0/first-folio.jpeg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 14, 2016  
### [How to Explore Shakespeare’s First Folio Online](https://time.com/4167636/shakespeares-first-folio-online/)  
This year will mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)
* ![ball gown from Gone With the Wind,](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb23f1412e5e5868d/698875ff8e060139f4463d44/timthumb.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 17, 2015  
### [How Gone With the Wind's Costumes Combined the 1860s and the 1930s](https://time.com/4154085/gone-with-the-wind-costumes/)  
A display of historic fashions from the 1860s shines a light on the creativity of Gone With the Wind...  
[HISTORY](/section/history/)

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