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Black Journalists Oral History Project

Find valuable insights into the early years of Black journalists’ struggles to shape their role in those newsrooms and the evolution of the Black press.

Reminiscences of Bobby Bowen

Listen to a leader of the Black Panther Party in Richmond, CA and how he came to consciousness through reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Hollywood, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Production Code, 1927-1968

Browse the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Production Code Administration Files collection of documents of forty years of self-regulation and censorship in the motion picture industry.

The Spirit of 1968

Explore documents and materials on the Black freedom movement on Morningside Heights, and around the globe.

A Brief History of Anti-Black Violence and Policing at Columbia University

Discover a documentation of the history of student and community activism on campus and in Harlem.

In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding ca 1575-1890

Virtually visit a reprise of a previous RBML exhibition presented between October 2018 and March 2019.

John Brown and Harper's Ferry

Explore the life of John Brown, a radical abolitionist who risked his life to end slavery.

How Harlem Became Radical

See ephemera from Hubert H. Harrison-- the first great soapbox orator of Harlem-- who was a brilliant and influential writer, educator, and movement builder of the early 20th century.

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The Democracy Reform and Voting Rights in the United States Web Archive documents historic, ongoing debates surrounding voter restrictions, structural democracy reform and voting rights and ensuing legislation.

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

Global Studies librarians offer a round-up of e-resources and library guides that are new to the Libraries. Part one features resources related to Africa, the Middle East, and Islam, and Russian, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe.

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.

News from the Rare Book & Manuscript Library includes a project completed by Library Assistant Melissa Cabarcas that enables staff to locate materials more easily, meaning shorter wait-times for reading room visitors.

A number of Columbia alumni, faculty, and even the University itself have been honored by the U.S. Post Office with a commemorative stamp, including, most recently, physics professor Chien-Shiung Wu.

Candidates in the M.A. in Art History program collaborated with the Libraries to curate "From Life: Early Works by Florine Stettheimer," an online exhibition of works by the American avant-garde artist.

The Libraries awards the 2021 Bancroft Prize to two exemplary works in American history and diplomacy by accomplished historians Andy Horowitz and Claudio Saunt.

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