We’re pleased to announce that we’ve acquired the archives of multi-award winning author Lydia Davis. Her archive features corrected drafts of her 2004 novel, The End of the Story, and stories, personal correspondence and journals dating back to her adolescence, as well as notes and drafts relating to her translation projects and her 35 years of […]
Oral history collection on addiction featured in NPR podcast, Throughline
Addiction and the opioid epidemic gripping the nation are investigated in a new NPR podcast, Throughline. Taking advantage of decades of NPR’s archival sound and the Oral History Archives at Columbia’s collections, podcast co-host Rund Abdelfatah spent time here in the RBML listening to the voices and stories of people struggling with addiction. The interviews […]
Exhibition | Remaking the World: Columbians and the 1919 Peace Conference
If you’re enjoying PBS’ Women, War and Peace series, stop in to the RBML for our current exhibit, Remaking the World. The exhibit explores Columbia University’s connections to the 1919 Peace Conference. To be specific, the exhibit explores the role of men deemed significant to The Paris Peace Conference, also known as the Versailles Peace Conference. […]
RBML Pulitzer collections on PBS’ American Masters 📺📰📺📰📺
Mere days ahead of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize announcements, tune in Friday, April 12, 2019 for the debut of a new program, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. The makers of the long-running PBS series, American Masters, visited the RBML to examine the Pulitzer and World paper collections, speak with Curator for Performing Arts Jenny Lee […]
New and Updated Collections | March 2019
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML archivists. Dawn Powell Papers “Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American author of novels, plays, and short stories. The collection includes address books, appointment books, books, clippings, correspondence, diaries, ephemera, family materials, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, photographs, programs, research files, reviews, scrapbooks, sketches and drawings. […]