By Rachel Klepper (Part II of II. Read part I.) Founded in the 1960s by Evelina López Antonetty (1922-1984) as a movement for school reform, United Bronx Parents developed into an important grassroots social-services provider. Over time, the networks and power that Antonetty built transformed into an organization that provided public health services to Bronx […]
Lo and behold: a new finding aid for the Wellington Koo Papers
Processing collections and creating finding aids according to updated archival standards gives RBML archivists the opportunity to discover anew our collections. In this post, Processing Archivist Yingwen Huang reflects on creating a new finding aid for the heavily used Wellington Koo Papers. Wellington Koo, a graduate of Columbia and a prominent statesman and diplomat from […]
RBML’s copy of rare Galileo text appears in PBS’s Secrets of the Dead
Perhaps you saw a familiar place in PBS’s new program on the forgery of the Galileo Sidereus Nuncius? Segments of the show Secrets of the Dead: Galileo’s Moon were filmed here in the RBML. You’ll also be able to see mathematician David Eugene Smith’s true copy of Sidereus Nuncius, which is in the RBML collections. It turns […]
In Passing | Oral history with Justice John Paul Stevens
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died this week at the age of 99. Nominated by Richard Nixon, Justice Stevens ruled on several pivotal cases that have shaped environmental policy, presidential elections and campaign financing. The Columbia Center for Oral History interviewed Justice Stevens for its project, The Rule of Law. The project documents the […]
United Bronx Parents – A “Community Grown Organization”
By Rachel Klepper (This is Part I of a two-part story. Read part II.) In 2018, the Lorraine Montenegro Women and Children’s Program Facility opened in a new building at 773 Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. With $12 million from New York State, this residential recovery center was built on the site where United Bronx […]