In honor of “spooky season”, we take a visit to the graves at Trinity churchyard. Columbians may know this churchyard as the final resting place of King’s College alumnus Alexander Hamilton (1804) and his wife Eliza Hamilton (1854). But there is a much earlier grave that dates back to the British colonial times and the […]
Processing the Jack and Irene Delano papers
The Winthrop Group recently finished processing the papers of Jack and Irene Delano on behalf of the RBML. Here is a guest blog post written by Cristina Stubbe, the Winthrop archivist who processed the papers. A Personal Connection with the Delano Collection There is so much I could say about the Jack and Irene Delano […]
Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds papers
Laura Fisher Kaiser, author and independent researcher, recently visited the RBML as part of her work on a new biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett, pen name Elizabeth Dejeans. Kaiser discusses some of her finds for The Fabulous Invention of Jazz-Age Novelist Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds literary agency collection below: What brings you to […]
Louise Nevelson at 125
Sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899 in Pereiaslav, Ukraine. To mark what would be her 125th birthday, we take a look at the connections between Nevelson and Columbia, now and then. Did you know that Louise Nevelson received an honorary degree from Columbia at the 1977 Commencement? In 1977, Louise Nevelson was awarded […]
Research at the RBML | Robert P. Jackson explores connections between Edward Said, Antonio Gramsci and Italian thought
Dr. Robert P. Jackson visited the RBML last year as part of his Edward W. Said Research Study Award. Editor of a recent volume on Gramsci’s Notebooks, Jackson brings his expertise on the Italian theorist to bear on the papers of late scholar and public intellectual Edward Said. Below, Jackson discusses some of the archival finds […]