This post is by Callum Blackmore, a GSAS student and intern in the RBML’s Graduate Student Internship in Primary Sources. In October 1975, a controversy erupted around the American opera singer, Beverly Sills. At the heart of this controversy was a feature article by the opera critic, Peter G. Davis (1948-2021), whose papers are now […]
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Processing Lucie Brock-Broido’s Papers
Guest post by Iva Moore (School of the Arts, 2023) The poet Lucie Brock-Broido has been critical to the Writing Program’s reputation at Columbia’s School of The Arts. After completing a Briggs-Copeland Lectureship at Harvard, Brock-Broido served as the head of Columbia’s poetry concentration from 1993 to 2018. She established herself as a bit of […]
Processing the Joseph E. Slater Papers
Guest post by Evelyn MacPherson, GSAS student At the start of my internship with the Rare Books and Manuscript Library I was asked if I knew what my dissertation would be on— a fair question for any rising fourth year PhD candidate, albeit a daunting one. I’d been asking myself the same question, and I […]
Processing the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records
“First of all, congratulations on finishing your oral exams.” So reads the first sentence of a correspondence found in the first box of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records, which I am processing as part of the Graduate Student Internship Program in Primary Sources at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library this […]
United Bronx Parents – A Commitment to Service
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 […]