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The Harry Ransom Center presents the free Poetry on the Plaza event “Winter Landscapes” this Wednesday, Dec. 3, at noon.

Find relief from an unseasonably warm December with poetry that evokes winter weather.

Hear poetry by E. E. Cummings, Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton from the center’s manuscript collections, and winter classics by Emily Dickinson, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Wittier and Robert Frost from the center’s rare book collection.

Readers include Brian Cassidy, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for Okkervil River and graduate of the
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November is a time of year when popular culture often revisits stereotypes about American Indians via mythologized depictions of the first thanksgiving in the New World. However, the historical facts don’t always match the picture painted in elementary school celebrations.

Scholars at The University of Texas at Austin whose research overturns these stereotypes include Steven Hoelscher, chair of the Department of American Studies, and Erika Bsumek, assistant professor of history.

Both of these faculty members have new books out this fall
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