Noting the passing of Vartan Gregorian — philanthropist, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and former New York Public Library President — this 2000 interview with NPR’s Scott Simon is but one of many highlights from the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive. Hear more from the oral history interview with Gregorian. […]
Bob Fass, Radio Pioneer (1933-2021)
The RBML was saddened to learn that radio pioneer Bob Fass died on Saturday the 24th of April, 2021. In 2016, our former director Sean Quimby spearheaded the acquisition of Bob’s papers and recordings, and over the next few years our archivists processed the material. There are some wonderful photos and printed items, but the […]
Now Available | Harold Brown Papers
The University Archives recently processed the Harold Brown papers. This small collection of course materials and student work offers a glimpse of life in the College during extraordinary times, in this case, World War II. Brown completed a BA in 1945, MA in 1946 and PhD in 1949. […]
Newly available | Biographical oral history interviews online
Over the course of its seventy-year history, oral history has gone through a few iterations — the Oral History Research Office, the Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia Center for Oral History Research, and, today, the Oral History Archives at Columbia. In each of its incarnations, in addition to conducting interviews for collections, oral historians […]
President’s House Books for Welcomed Guests
We recently processed a small collection of guest books from the President’s House during Nicholas Murray Butler’s administration. These books show the range of events and dinner guests that the University President hosted over 30 years. But the books only record those invited guests and not the students, in particular student protesters, who received a […]