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Feb 28, 2023

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Senior Lecturer at Flinders University Leïla Morsy visited the Rare Book & Manuscript Library to examine how powerful philanthropies in the early 20th century restructured medical education, creating long-lasting legacies that persist today.

Feb 21, 2023

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Historian Scott Spillman details the numerous collections in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library that he consulted for a forthcoming book, including the papers of Columbia professor and writer Eric L. McKitrick (1919-2002).

Feb 14, 2023

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Everyday is Valentine's Day at Kent Hall: Glance above the second-story windows of Kent Hall on the Morningside Heights campus and you'll find engraved 'putti,' or chubby cherubs with garlands and flowers.

Feb 6, 2023

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Author and poet Kurt Boone, a "collector and documentarian of urban culture" who appears in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's ongoing Curatorial Shorts series, speaks on the impact of mass incarceration.

Feb 1, 2023

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An iconic Harlem restaurant visits the dining room in John Jay Hall: In 1997, landmark establishment, Sylvia's teamed with Columbia Dining Services to prepare signature dishes like fried chicken, collard greens, and peach cobbler on campus.

Jan 25, 2023

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library welcomes the archive of Tania León, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music, a 2022 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors, and a renowned musician whose compositions are performed across the globe.

Jan 23, 2023

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Dean of the School of Journalism Jelani Cobb announced the 20th president of Columbia University, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, in the World Room of the Journalism School, in front of a stained glass window that bears the Statue of Liberty. University archivists share its history.

Jan 18, 2023

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The University shares several commonalities with an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, "She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia," including former Professor of Art History Edith Porada, also the first Curator of Ancient Seals at the Morgan.

Jan 10, 2023

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Scholar Pedro Doreste investigates the lasting impact of educational cinema in Puerto Rico through the papers of documentary filmmaker David Flaherty, which are held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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Researcher Profile | Leïla Morsy on the Closure of Black Medical Schools

Research at the RBML | Scott Spillman on Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick

Every Day Is Valentine’s Day at Kent Hall

Mass Incarceration from One Family’s Perspective: A Curatorial Short with Kurt Boone

Sylvia’s in Morningside Heights?!

Welcoming the Tania León Archive

A World Room Welcome

Enheduanna and Columbia

Research at the RBML | Pedro Doreste

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Researcher Profile | Leïla Morsy on the Closure of Black Medical Schools

Research at the RBML | Scott Spillman on Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick

Every Day Is Valentine’s Day at Kent Hall

Mass Incarceration from One Family’s Perspective: A Curatorial Short with Kurt Boone

Sylvia’s in Morningside Heights?!

Welcoming the Tania León Archive

A World Room Welcome

Enheduanna and Columbia

Research at the RBML | Pedro Doreste

News Archive