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 […]
Newly available collections at RBML – April 2018
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened by RBML archivists. Sarah Addington papers, 1921-1937 “Correspondence, manuscripts and printed stories by Addington. Sarah Addington was born in 1891. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana in 1912. She then studied at Columbia University. She married Howard Carl Reid in […]
Fire tweets marking Columbia ’68 protest today
Today marks 50 years since the infamous Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) rally at the Sun Dial. The gathering kicked off a week long student protest primarily focused on the construction of a new university gym on public land in Morningside Park and university ties to the Institute […]
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] […]
Now available | Photo album collections ready for researchers
The University Archives is working hard to bring more and more of its collections out of hiding and make them available to researchers. As part of that effort we recently published finding aids for three Columbia photograph album collections: two featuring scenes of the Morningside campus from the 1930s and 1940s and one from President […]