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Mar 1, 2021

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Meet Kevin Schlottmann, Head of Archives Processing and Interim Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, who ensures that archives are accessible to researchers.

Feb 24, 2021

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News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes documents from notable Columbia University faculty, like Christine Ladd Franklin, well-known for her research on color vision.

Feb 16, 2021

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How two mid-century ball gowns from former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower made their way to the University Archives for "future generations of Columbia people" to appreciate.

Feb 9, 2021

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A portrait from the University Archives helped a team of forensic anthropologists to identify the remains of Pierre Toussaint, who is expected to become the first Black saint in the Catholic Church in North America.

Feb 3, 2021

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The Lehman Center for American History presents a forthcoming program of events that will explore important contemporary questions surrounding race, inequality, and health.

Jan 29, 2021

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Curatorial Shorts, a series of talks presented by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, offer an informal look at new research and findings from the library’s collections.

Jan 25, 2021

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Amidst the upheaval that marked 2020, archivists and curators in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library continued to steward the Libraries' rare and unique collections.

Jan 22, 2021

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The Addicts Who Survived oral history collection offers a robust picture of how the trafficking and consumption of narcotics impacted 20th-century New York City.

Jan 19, 2021

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Is that the President on campus?! University archivists recall a number of occasions when future U.S. presidents visited Columbia on their way to the White House.

Jan 13, 2021

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Behind the scenes of archivists' work to update finding aids for more than 1,100 collections in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, which are crucial to facilitate discovery for library users.

Dec 23, 2020

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News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes correspondence and documents from Frances Perkins, one of the most influential American women of the mid-20th century.

Dec 22, 2020

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A year in review: among other projects, the University Archives mobilized to document Columbia's official response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other milestones in 2020.

Dec 21, 2020

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View a selection of manuscripts from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's medieval and Renaissance collections, newly digitized and accessible online for discovery and study.

Dec 15, 2020

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The iconic Santa Claus with a beard “as white as the snow" was created by loyal Columbian Clement Clark Moore, CC 1798, in a poem for his children, written on Christmas Eve in 1822.

Dec 10, 2020

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Transcripts and select audio material from the Eisenhower oral history project, among the University's most researched collections, are now accessible to scholars.

Dec 9, 2020

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News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes newly-digitized audio and video material from the Chinese oral history project collection.

Dec 8, 2020

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The University Archives details an initiative that began in 1919 and enabled Columbia to provide educational opportunities, or "home study," to students all over the world.

Dec 1, 2020

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The University Archives celebrates the holiday season with one of the oldest Columbia traditions, the Yule Log, which dates to the colonial days of King's College.

Nov 24, 2020

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The Libraries remembers the late David N. Dinkins, the first African-American mayor of New York City, whose papers are held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Nov 18, 2020

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Learn the basics behind the University Archives, which helps Columbians manage their records and preserves and makes accessible the institutional history of the University.

Nov 17, 2020

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The Radio Liberty oral history project, which presents a broad social, political, economic, and cultural panorama of Russia during the 1917 Russian Revolution, is now publicly available.

Nov 12, 2020

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News from the archives of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes more than 1,300 digitized oral histories that are now accessible via CLIO and the Digital Library Collections.

Nov 12, 2020

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The University Archives explores the past 150 years of Columbia Football, including the team's first game on November 12, 1870 against Rutgers University.

Oct 28, 2020

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Two Columbia professors, John K. Rees and Harold Jacoby, were instrumental in New York City's decision to adopt Daylight Savings Time in the early 20th century.

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Meet Kevin, Who Ensures that Archives in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library are Discoverable and Accessible to Researchers

News from RBML’s Archivists | January 2021

Mamie’s “Lovely Pink Gown”

Pierre Toussaint’s Portrait at Columbia

Lehman Center Spring Program: “Race, Inequality, and Health”

Announcing Curatorial Shorts from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library

RBML: 2020 in Review

Oral History | Addicts Who Survived Oral History Project

Is That the President on Campus? From Columbia to the White House

Updating Finding Aids During the 2020 COVID Shutdown

News from the RBML’s Archivists and Collections Management Specialists | December 2020

2020: A Year Unlike Any Other

Some Illumination for All

“’Twas the Night Before Christmas” and Columbia

Oral History | Newly Available in the Digital Library Collection: Eisenhower Oral History Project

News from the RBML’s Archivists and Collections Management Specialists | November 2020

Home Study: Columbia’s Long-Distance Experiment

Lighting Up the Yule Log

Remembering “Our Mayor”: David N. Dinkins and Columbia University Libraries

Records Management and University Archives 101s

Radio Liberty Oral History Project Newly Available to the Public

News from the RBML’s Archivists | September and October 2020

Columbia Football at 150!

Columbia and Daylight Saving Time: You’re Welcome