When Paul Brandeis Raushenbush contacted the Oral History Archives to access an oral history interview with his grandparents, Elizabeth Brandeis and Paul Raushenbush, he was already researching their role in what would become a national unemployment insurance policy, part of the Social Security Act of 1935. He couldn’t have foreseen the pandemic and that 17 […]
Low Library as an Athletics Training Facility?
Low Library has been a library, a home for the administration and a ceremonial space for events, but did you know that it was once the home to the crew team’s rowing tanks? Deep in the sub basement, the crew team used to practice in Low while the Harlem River was frozen. […]
Perhaps you need some amusement
Just in time for the weekend, a little passive entertainment while you are waiting for your bread dough to rise. For an easy thrill, page through the glorious Page Chromatic Type Specimen, always the big hit when type design classes visit. Better in person (it’s so BIG — some 18 inches tall), but still […]
“1968: The Global Revolutions” Exhibition Goes Online
On today’s date — April 30 — in 1968, the campus takeover by thousands of Columbia and Barnard community members ended in violence, as police physically removed students, and others, from university buildings that they had occupied during the previous week. On the same date, seven years later, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, […]
GATHER: A Virtual & Interactive Oral History Exhibit
For the first time in the Oral History Master’s Program at Columbia’s twelve year history, students will present a fully digital curation of their fieldwork. GATHER is an immersive, interactive oral history exhibit designed to explore, challenge, ignite, and connect. On May 1 from 5:00-8:00pm EST, OHMA will host a digital-launch event during which you’ll […]