Hubert Harrison: A Harlem Radical’s Struggle for Equality Tuesday, Dec. 8, 6pm Register Here For This Event Join us to celebrate the publication of Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927, the final volume of Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry’s magisterial study of the once-forgotten figure known as the Father of Harlem Radicalism. […]
Lighting Up the Yule Log
To help get you in the holiday spirit in this most unusual, socially-distant year, here’s what you need to know about one of Columbia’s oldest traditions, the Yule Log — a tradition that goes back to the colonial days of King’s College. […]
Remembering “Our Mayor”: David N. Dinkins and Columbia University Libraries
David N. Dinkins, New York City’s first, and only, African American mayor died on November 23, at the age of 93. Dinkins, whose term as mayor lasted from 1990 to 1993, had been a member of the Columbia University community for more than a quarter of a century, serving since 1994 as professor at the […]
Records Management and University Archives 101s
On the Managing University Records site, we recently posted a section with Training Slides. These presentation slides offer some of the basics on what the University Archives does: we help Columbians manage their records, and we preserve and make accessible the institutional history of the University. The training decks are short and, hopefully, useful, and […]
Radio Liberty oral history project newly available to the public
A popular oral history project, the Radio Liberty project, 1964 – 1966, was recently opened for public listening.* From the catalog record: In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Radio Liberty and the Institute for the Study of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in Munich collected memoirs of participants in […]