The OHAC Showcase offers digital exhibitions and space for collaboration and experimentation in oral history. Stop by for behind-the-scenes insights into the practice and methodology of oral history collecting, archiving, and exhibiting. Now showing: an online posting of the Dynamic Archives exhibition from October 2018. […]
US Presidents Who Officially Visited Columbia
In a previous post, we talked about some of the future U.S. Presidents who spent time at Columbia, as students, lecturers, award recipients and even a university president, on their way to the White House. Here, we recall the sitting Presidents who have made official visits to the University. […]
RBML – 2020 in Review
2020 was a year like no other. It started normally enough, but on March 16, 2020, Columbia University closed its physical facilities as part of the New York State-mandated PAUSE that sought to control the spread of COVID. For months, staff were permitted onsite only for essential security and maintenance checks. As restrictions loosened over […]
Talk by book maker Felicia Rice Tuesday January 26
Love beautiful books? Hate oppression? Want to imagine a better future? Listen to Felicia Rice! register here: https://bit.ly/399Yq9M “Moving Parts Press: Rising from the Ashes” Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:00 PM–7:00 PM EST Please join Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library for a discussion with artist, editor, and publisher Felicia Rice. Felicia’s Moving Parts […]
New Collection | Addicts Who Survived Oral History Project
— by Keri Kelly, Oral History Archives at Columbia archives assistant. The Addicts Who Survived Oral History Collection offers a robust picture of how the trafficking and consumption of narcotics such as heroin, opium, and morphine impacted twentieth century New York City. The collection contains a myriad of perspectives, including those of narcotic addicts and […]