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These Handwritten Notes Came From John Wilkes Booth. Here’s How They’re Helping a Modern Theater Company

"We almost certainly would not have this promptbook had its owner not been so morbidly interesting"

By Beth Burns / Harry Ransom Center

'A Frightening Time in Our History': What Americans Really Thought About the Pentagon Papers

The papers of Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee offer unique insight

By Ancelyn Krivak / Harry Ransom Center

How FDR's 'Four Freedoms' Inspired Americans During World War II

Roosevelt’s words served as powerful inspiration in the years to follow, and artists explored and drew upon them during World War II

By Tracy Bonfitto / Harry Ransom Center

The Gutenberg Bible Comes With Reading Instructions

In addition to the marginalia indicating what to read, there is punctuation within the biblical text indicating how to read it.

By Aaron Pratt / Harry Ransom Center

The Personal History Behind 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

Gabriel García Márquez had serious doubts about whether the novel was good at all

By Álvaro Santana-Acuña / Harry Ransom Center

Gabriel García Márquez’s Life in 100 Pictures

An archivist responsible for digitizing the author's personal photos reflects on the process of selecting 100 to represent the collection

By Ryan Blake / Harry Ransom Center

As Show's Collections Go to Archive, 'Mad Men' Head of Research Shares Her Process

"Born decades later, I felt like I was able to experience the event as it unfolded"

By Marissa Kessenich / Harry Ransom Center

How You Can Read the Magazine That Lewis Carroll Produced as a Teenager

Charles Dodgson edited the magazine and produced the majority of the content. The magazine also includes work by six of his ten siblings

By Danielle Brune Sigler / Harry Ransom Center

Life on Mars: 'The War of the Worlds' and H.G. Wells at 150

The year 2016 marks two Wellsian anniversaries, that is the 150th anniversary of Wells’s birth and the 70th anniversary of his death

By Peter J. Beck / Harry Ransom Center

How Tennessee Williams Bridged Pop Culture and Fine Art

The A Streetcar Named Desire playwright was also a painter—and a muse to his artist friends

By Simona Cupic / Harry Ransom Center

The Moral Uproar Caused by the 'Professional Beauties' of Early Photography

“Anything the ingenuity of the camera-man could devise to produce an original or startling effect was utilized with more or less happy results"

By Jennifer R. Henneman / Harry Ransom Center

An International Advocacy Group for Freedom of Expression Started as a Social Club

P.E.N. International was established in London during the early 1920s

By Charlotte Nunes / Harry Ransom Center

'Infinite Jest' at 20: Letters Reveal David Foster Wallace's 'Icky' Anxiety About the Book

The novel was published 20 years ago, in February of 1996

By Megan Barnard / Harry Ransom Center

How to Explore Shakespeare’s First Folio Online

This year will mark the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death

By Harry Ransom Center

How Gone With the Wind's Costumes Combined the 1860s and the 1930s

A display of historic fashions from the 1860s shines a light on the creativity of Gone With the Wind's costume designer

By Jill Morena / Harry Ransom Center

See an Original Manuscript Page From 'The Things They Carried'

The classic book turned 25 this year

By Alicia Dietrich / Harry Ransom Center

How 'The Diary of Anne Frank' First Made It to the U.S.

Documents show that publishers were initially wary

By Eric Colleary / Harry Ransom Center

The Woman Who Made Scarlett O'Hara's Hats

Mildred Blount was the 'Milliner to the Stars!'—but she didn't always get credit

By Jill Morena / Harry Ransom Center

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Thoughts on Some 'Great Writers'

The author's archive was recently acquired by the Ransom Center

By Jennifer Tisdale / Harry Ransom Center

What It Was Like to Work With David Foster Wallace

One of the writer's one-time editors looks back on their work together

By Jay Jennings / Harry Ransom Center
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