Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) on her book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Franchise historicizes the origins of today’s pervasive racialized health disparities by examining the forces that brought McDonald’s into so many corners of Black life. By taking a historical approach to the question of nutrition and food politics, Chatelain brings new insights into […]
News from the RBML’s Archivists | September and October 2020
Here are updates from the RBML’s archives and collections management specialists. Newly linked CLIO records for oral histories With thanks to Library Information Technology colleagues, an additional 1,329 CLIO records for digitized oral histories now have direct links to digitized content in the Digital Library Collection. This is a tremendous boon to patrons, who use […]
Columbia Football at 150!
On November 12, 1870 Columbia played its first football game, only the fourth intercollegiate contest in the history of the sport, losing to Rutgers by a score of 6-3. The game and Columbia’s program have come a long way since then. […]
TODAY, 12pm – Book Talk with Simon Balto on Policing Black Chicago
You are invited to join the Lehman Center for American History tomorrow (Nov. 5) at noon for a Zoom conversation with historian Simon Balto on his new book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power. >>>Register Here Now<<<< […]
OHAC Event | Moving from Collecting to Interpreting and Analyzing Covid-19 Oral Histories
The Columbia University student COVID-19 oral history collection has been processed and now we await its appearance in the oral history section of the Digital Library Collection. [Update 04/28/21: interviews are now available in the DLC!] Until they’re ready for use, the Oral History Archives at Columbia continues to sponsor the The Journal of the […]