What: How We Listen — like a book club, but for oral histories! When: Saturday, March 27th, 2pm Join OHAC for the first How We Listen session, a new event series focused on sharing oral history audio from our deep and wide archives. Let’s figure out what it means to really hear the […]
Beer at John Jay Hall
On March 22, 1933, not even three weeks after President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Law 1907) took the oath of office, he signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, authorizing the sale of low-alcohol beer and wine. This was the first step on the path to ending Prohibition. And Columbia College students rejoiced! […]
Event Tomorrow (3/18) 4pm – African American Response to HIV/AIDS
Join the Lehman Center for American History for a conversation with historian Dan Royles about his new book To Make the Wounded Whole: African American Responses to HIV/AIDS. Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021 Time: 4 – 5:30pm Register for this Online Event Here […]
Event Today (March 11), 4pm – Native Americans and Health Care
Join the Lehman Center for American History and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library for “‘Don’t Get Sick After June’: A Seventy-Year Long Survival Strategy for Native Americans Navigating the Indian Health Service,” a conversation with Maria John, Assistant Professor of History, and Director of The Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, University of Massachusetts […]
Charles Henry Alston at Columbia
Sam Pollard’s documentary “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” (2021) was inspired by David C. Driskell’s 1976 exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art.” The traveling exhibition was the first large-scale survey of African American artists, both well-known and not-so-well-known. The film discusses how this show’s legacy has influenced generations of Black artists, curators, […]