Intricately bound with Black grassroots, religious and civic organizations were Americans in the legal profession. This newly available collection, Lawyers Who Went South, documents the experiences of lawyers who participated in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with a particular focus on the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee. As a Columbia undergraduate Thomas Hilbink […]
Liturgical Books Goes Live
Liturgical Books presents the examples from the RBML of the various types of books used in the Middle Ages for the celebration of the Latin liturgy. This new resource is the result of the collaborative redesign of a web exhibit (Celebrating the Liturgy’s Books) designed by Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Books until […]
A Frances Perkins anniversary gift to oral history…
It’s safe to say — by volume of patron requests — Frances Perkins‘ 5,500+ word oral history is one of the most requested interviews in the Oral History Archives at Columbia’s collections. Today, March 4th, marks the anniversary of Perkin’s appointment to the U.S. Cabinet as Secretary of Labor in 1933. In honor of […]
News from RBML’s Archivists | February 2021
Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares these updates of a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. 🆕 Newly processed collections Josephine Baker Collection “Documents Baker’s career from her arrival in Paris in 1925 as a show girl in the Revue Negre; her selection to star in a […]
Harold Jacoby and the Stars above Grand Central
The new skylight ceiling of the recently opened Moynihan Train Hall, the expansion of Penn Station, recalls the 1913 opening of Grand Central Terminal and its own celestial ceiling. Above the main concourse, the vaulted ceiling features an expansive mural of stars and constellations, thanks to the expertise of Columbia astronomy professor Harold Jacoby. […]