On May 22, 1971 – 50 years ago this Saturday – a high-powered audience of politicians, religious leaders, educators and even Hollywood stars, gathered for the dedication of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin. Then-President Richard Nixon led the honors for his predecessor’s project.
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s would be the first presidential library located in Texas – the George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush libraries are in Dallas and College Station. The LBJ Library commemorate one of the most turbulent, consequential presidencies of the 20th century, and, in the mold of its namesake, it was the first really big, grand facility of its kind to be built.
Lyndon Johnson's larger-than-life personality and legacy is reflected in the building, and the millions of artifacts, papers and recordings it preserves.
Raymond Clemens is the Curator of Early Books & Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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This image from a medieval Book of Hours (date uncertain) focuses on Jesus’s suffering and death. View full image
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
This image from a medieval Book of Hours (date uncertain) focuses on Jesus’s suffering and death. View full image
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
This image is from a French Book of Hours, circa 1510. It depicts Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. An armored soldier seizes Jesus as Judas kisses him, betraying him to the soldiers. At right, Peter holds his unsheathed sword; he has cut off the ear of the enslaved Malchus, who lies at Jesus’s feet while Jesus holds Malchus’s severed ear, soon to reattach it.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 6, 2021) American theatre researchers will benefit from the major discovery of correspondence between two of the nation’s most storied playwrights Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill. University of Kentucky Professor Herman Daniel Farrell III, a playwright and noted O’Neill scholar, found the letter while doing research in the archives at Yale University.
The newly discovered letter gives readers an idea of the impact the two celebrated artists had on the other. The correspondence, penned by the critically acclaimed Williams in 1945 not long after the success of his work The Glass Menagerie speaks to his appreciation of a new work of Nobel Prize laureate O’Neill The Iceman Cometh. Williams’ letter expressed admiration for O’Neill’s play describing it as “an unique dramatic achievement.”