April 27-28, Weekend Conference, Faculty House From Morningside Heights to Mexico City, Czechoslovakia to China, Paris to Tokyo, the yearlong crises of 1968 linked world communities in a unique and epochal series of dramatic confrontations. The repercussions are still being felt. A two-day interdisciplinary conference will discuss critical new conversations on the legacy and continued […]
What were the main ingredients in recipes from 1902-1904?
Among the recent additions to the University Archives is a fascinating recipe book put together by Clara Schauffler (1879-1972) from her time as a student in domestic science at Teachers College from September 1902 to June 1904. As a student pursuing the then-new two-year curriculum in domestic science, Schauffler took DS 10, Foods and DS […]
Columbia and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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 […]
Oral histories that speak to us on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Saturday, January 27th is the annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Josephine Prins survived both the Holocaust and the September 11th attacks on New York. You can read about Prins, her memories of growing up in the Netherlands before the Nazi occupation and how she survived life in Auschwitz […]
Telford Taylor and the Precedent of the Nuremberg Trials
Archivist Christopher M. Laico shares the significance of the Telford Taylor Papers as the collection relates to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. DATELINE: Washington, DC, 9 May 1949. In a statement to the International News Service, U.S. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor announced the official end of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Taylor declared: “I venture to predict […]