In 1937, Alice Duer Miller, Barnard Class of 1899, presented to the Columbiana Collection the diaries of her great-grandmother, Hannah Maria Denning Duer. The diaries are a collection of 12 slim volumes documenting Mrs. Duer’s life from January 1838 to June 1862. They open with a four-year period when Mrs. Duer, as the wife of […]
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Lou Gehrig Day
Major League Baseball (MLB) has declared that, starting this year, June 2 will annually be set aside to pay tribute to the late Lou Gehrig, the legendary New York Yankees first baseman whose career was cut short by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – the disease forever associated with him. Did you know that before he […]
From Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway
From 1915 to 1922, Columbia football games were played on South Field right on the Morningside campus. A recently re-discovered photograph captures not only the old “stadium” with a game in progress (!), but even neighbors enjoying the game from the rooftops along 114th Street. Before John Jay Hall, Butler Library and Lerner Hall, you […]
Bugs for the Month of May
As billions of Brood X cicadas get ready to emerge from the ground, we look back to the billions of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) that helped a former Columbia faculty member claim the 1933 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology. Thomas Hunt Morgan (faculty 1904-1928) and his team of researchers laid the foundations to modern […]
Now Available | Harold Brown Papers
The University Archives recently processed the Harold Brown papers. This small collection of course materials and student work offers a glimpse of life in the College during extraordinary times, in this case, World War II. Brown completed a BA in 1945, MA in 1946 and PhD in 1949. […]