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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Harry Ransom Center ## Harry Ransom Center ## Harry Ransom Center *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  Sep 21, 2016 ### [Life on Mars: 'The War of the Worlds' and H.G. Wells at 150](https://time.com/4502609/hg-wells-150/) The year 2016 marks two Wellsian anniversaries, that is the 150th anniversary of Wells’s birth and t... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Jun 30, 2016 ### [How Tennessee Williams Bridged Pop Culture and Fine Art](https://time.com/4388601/tennessee-williams-painter/) The A Streetcar Named Desire playwright was also a painter—and a muse to his artist friends [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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... 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