This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting objects and archival documents from Social Climates: Power and the Environment in the Archives, an exhibition currently on view in the Kempner Gallery at Columbia’s RBML. Drawing on a wide array of RBML collections and materials, Social Climates explores the interconnections between culture, history, politics, […]
Processing Lucie Brock-Broido’s Papers
Guest post by Iva Moore (School of the Arts, 2023) The poet Lucie Brock-Broido has been critical to the Writing Program’s reputation at Columbia’s School of The Arts. After completing a Briggs-Copeland Lectureship at Harvard, Brock-Broido served as the head of Columbia’s poetry concentration from 1993 to 2018. She established herself as a bit of […]
Processing the Joseph E. Slater Papers
Guest post by Evelyn MacPherson, GSAS student At the start of my internship with the Rare Books and Manuscript Library I was asked if I knew what my dissertation would be on— a fair question for any rising fourth year PhD candidate, albeit a daunting one. I’d been asking myself the same question, and I […]
Louis Taxin and the Furnald Grocery
In the green patch of grass in front of Furnald Hall, there is a small plaque in honor of Louis Taxin CC 1928. The monument celebrates Taxin’s wisdom and kindness – “an outstanding inspiration to all” – and it was commissioned by the students of Furnald Grocery. From 1976 to 1989, the Furnald Grocery was […]
Now Available | Cox Commission Records
At the University Archives, we are always interested in materials related to student protests and activism, which are an integral part of campus life. We recently processed a small collection of administrative records that offer insights into the wider perception of the student strike on campus in 1968 and the factual investigation led by the […]