On May 3, the editors of the college newspapers at Brown, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Haverford, Princeton, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, and the University of Pennsylvania agreed to publish a joint editorial condemning the American invasion of Cambodia and calling for a nationwide university strike to demand “an immediate withdrawal of all American troops […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
The Grateful Dead were here at Columbia
In May ’68, responding to a request from student protest organizers, fusion rock band The Grateful Dead played a free concert on Low Plaza. Band member Mickey Hart writes: Always up for an adventure, we of course, went right along. Since the police and guards were closing off access to the majority of the campus – […]
Columbia Lions | Frank Diehl Fackenthal
The RBML’s University Archivists feature a different graduate as part of their Columbia Lion series. Learn more information about Lions in the University Archives Collections and on exhibit in the RBML reading room cases. “I made the university my hobby and stuck around. My idea was that somebody had to watch the oven.” “Oven Watcher,” […]
Was your grandfather a Columbia engineer?
At the University Archives we receive a number of requests every year about Columbia alumni: a grandfather, great aunt, parent, cousin, etc. For this purpose, we put together a research guide to help genealogists find information about former Columbia students. The guide offers the most popular or most frequently consulted sources, both online and available […]
Placing Columbia in the American Revolutionary past
Check out The Ear’s podcast delving into “Columbia’s Hidden Loyalist Past.” And then visit the RBML’s University Archives to examine related papers and collections: King’s College Research Guide Columbia College papers, 1703-1964 [Bulk Dates: 1754-1920] […]