It’s been nearly 100 years since the infamous 1918 influenza epidemic swept the globe. As we’re in the middle of our own flu season you might be wondering how Columbia fared during that time. The answer: really well. While millions of people were dying around the world from this relentless scourge, the students at Columbia […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
LGBTQ+ alumni oral histories from Columbia’s Center for Oral History Research
Jamie Beckenstein, Project Coordinator for LGBTQ+ Columbia Oral Histories, shared a few of the themes that emerged from interviewing Columbia alums for the Columbia LGBTQ Oral History Project: We were correct to assume that Columbia’s location in Manhattan allowed narrators potential access to public queer worlds, but the ways that the narrators choose to access these […]
After Processing, Scholarship Begins: Research Applications of the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Records
On September 30, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s three-year project to process the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Records will officially come to an end. The project, supported by the Ford Foundation, met several goals. It supported the processing of approximately 500 linear feet of paper records and 3.6 terabytes of digital records, which […]
Tues., Mar. 31st @ 6 PM – C. Wright Mills @ Columbia: a discussion by John Summers, Editor & Chief, “The Baffler”
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Mar. 3rd at 1:00 PM – Lehman Center: “A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864”
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