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University archivists recount how protests among student activists on campus inspired Margaret B. Young, widow of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young, to donate her late husband's papers to Columbia.

A recent event marked the completion of the Manuscripts of the Muslim World Project, a collaboration among numerous institutions to digitize and provide online access to Islamicate manuscripts and Mughal paintings.

News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes correspondence, reports, speeches, and other materials that document the work of civil rights leader Whitney M. Young.

The University Archives shares photos from renowned photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, who took her first class in photography at Columbia in 1922 and whose work is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A scrapbook of comic strips compiled by barber I.A. Persinger throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s offers an unlikely window into sociocultural history and life in Depression-era Kansas.

As Columbia prepares to return to "normal University life," according to the Office of the President, the University Archives offers a series of recommendations to transition offices and records back to campus.

Fifty years ago, in 1971, Columbia established the first LGBTQ student lounge on a college campus in Furnald Hall, a safe space for the gay community at the University.

To celebrate National Immigrant Heritage Month, the University Archives remembers Michael Pupin, or Mihajlo Idvorsky Pupin, CC 1883, University faculty member and inventor of coils to facilitate long-distance telephone calls.

The diaries of Hannah Maria Denning Duer, wife of Columbia College’s fifth president, William Alexander Duer, date from January 1838 to June 1862 and detail her time in College Hall on Park Place, the original home of King's College.

An automated Twitter account shares vibrant images from a collection of Hebrew manuscripts in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library with an engaged, global audience of scholars, students, and sharp-eyed Twitter scrollers.

The University Archives remembers "Columbia Lou" on the first annual Lou Gehrig Day, which supports ALS awareness and research, with photos, yearbook entries & other memories from Gehrig's time as a Columbia Lion.

A recently re-discovered photo of South Field, where Columbia Football games were played from 1915-1922, shows a long-lost view of the Morningside campus from Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway.

As spring debuts in New York City and Manhattan’s cultural institutions begin to re-open, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Gardens links to a collection in the Libraries' Oral History Archives.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library digitizes approximately 700 Hebrew manuscripts, now accessible to a global audience, leading researchers to a range of meaningful discoveries.

Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann Thornton is pleased to announce the appointment of Courtney Chartier as Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, beginning July 2021.

University archivists join the National Archives' monthly #ArchivesHashtagParty to highlight #ArchivesBugs and the work of Columbia professor Thomas Hunt Morgan, who studied the inherited traits of fruit flies.

Archivist Patrick Lawler led a project to describe and provide access to a "truly massive set of 19th-century newspapers” from the Libraries' Seymour B. Durst Collection of Historical Manuscripts, Documents, and Newspapers.

Oral history interviews with Columbia students, recorded in April and May 2020, reflect the social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic as the University transitioned to online learning.

To mark the passing of philanthropist Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021), President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Oral History Archives shares a 2000 interview from the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive.

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library remembers radio pioneer Bob Fass, whose collection of correspondence, photos & remarkable audio recordings of his WBAI program, "Radio Unnameable," are held by the Libraries.

A newly-processed collection of student work in the University Archives chronicles the academic career of Harold Brown, who earned three degrees from Columbia during and immediately following World War II.

News from the Oral History Archives includes more than 300 individual, or independently-collected, newly-digitized oral history interviews in the Digital Library Collections.

A small collection of guest books from the University president’s house show a range of events and dinner guests hosted by Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler during his 30-year tenure.

The University Archives announces the publication of a new online exhibition, "Insistent Change: Columbia’s Core Curriculum at 100," which documents the development and ongoing transformation of the curriculum.

News

How the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Papers Came to Columbia

The Muslim World Manuscripts Project: “Listening to All the Echoes in the Garden”

News from RBML’s Archivists | June 2021

Bourke-White at Columbia

Comics Scrapbook Offers a Window into Depression-era Kansas

Return to Campus: Records Management Considerations

A Safe Space Turns 50

From Immigrant to Inventor

Mrs. Duer’s Diaries

Learning from the Crowd: The CULHebrewmss Twitter Bot

Lou Gehrig Day

From Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway

Art and Nature-Related Oral Histories in NYC

Microfilm?! Digitizing an Old Medium Yields New Discoveries

Courtney Chartier Named as Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Bugs for the Month of May

News from RBML’s Archivists | April 2021

Newly Available | Columbia Students’ COVID-19 Oral History Interviews

Collection Highlight | Vartan Gregorian (1934-2021) and the Carnegie Corporation Digital Archive

Bob Fass, Radio Pioneer (1933-2021)

Newly Available | The Harold Brown Papers

Newly Available Online | Biographical Oral History Interviews Online

President’s House Books for Welcomed Guests

New Online Content | Insistent Change: Columbia’s Core Curriculum at 100