The Life of Thurgood Marshall Commemorate the birth of Thurgood Marshall with a snapshot of his work with the NAACP and his role in the Civil Rights-era Trenton Six case.
A Letter From Thomas Jefferson From the John Jay Papers, Jefferson describes events in Paris firsthand leading up to the fall of the Bastille in 1789.
What's Summer Without Hot Dogs? See world's largest hot dog stand in Seymour B. Durst's Old New York.
To the Moon Quench your National Moon Day curiosities with an excerpt from RBML’s John Jay papers as the Founding Father contemplates the influence of the moon and its relation to superstitions.
Be Nice To Our Neighbors It's Be Nice To NJ Week; dive into the Ulysses Kay Papers for a vintage program from the New Jersey State Opera centering Frederick Douglass.
Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela! The Libraries highlights a range of digital resources related to African studies in honor of the South African politician and revolutionary.
Web archivists captured commemorative websites for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, preserving a milestone in the modern gay rights movement.
Apollo 11 launched its mission to the moon in 1969. More than 100 years earlier, a Columbia trustee captured a rare photo of the moon, now held by the University Archives.
MAD Magazine ceases production, but the work of iconic MAD cartoonist Al Jaffee lives on in the Libraries' archives.
Discover hundreds of unknown holdings in Hebraica and Judaica, processed by the Libraries' archivists during summer downtime.
Play ball! Did you know a match-up between Columbia and Princeton was the first televised baseball game in the US?
A team of experts consulted the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's copy of an early work by Galileo for a PBS documentary.
The Libraries commemorate the anniversary of the historic Stonewall Riots that sparked the international gay rights movement.
The newly-processed papers of the Barnard family reveal the childhood fantasies of the clan's two young boys.
"Animalia," a new exhibit in Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, celebrates the essence of animal life as depicted in various art forms.
To commemorate Juneteenth, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library archives provide a meaningful glimpse into the memories of former slaves.
The Literary Authors from Europe and Eurasia Web Archive preserves regional content about the contemporary literary process.
Happy birthday, Lou Gehrig! The baseball legend, CC 1925, was a home-run hitter as a Columbia Lion on old South Field.
Norma Merrick broke ground as an influential African American female architect - the first to graduate from Columbia's School of Architecture.
The New York Times remembers former University Librarian Patricia Battin, "a pioneer and a visionary" and the first woman to lead an Ivy League library.
Happy birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright! The archives of "the greatest American architect of all time" are held by Avery Library.
On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we remember Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led the military operation and would later serve as president of Columbia.
Out and proud in the archives: In honor of Pride Month, explore several RBML collections that demonstrate a range of LGBTQIA experiences.
#MeToo and the Women’s Rights Movement in China Web Archive preserves content from women's organizations in Greater China.
Congratulations to the Class of 2019! The University Archives captured a sea of graduates in Columbia blue at the 1969 Commencement Day ceremony.
The Libraries' Oral History Archives will be the sole repository of the official oral histories of the presidency of Barack Obama (CC'83).
Rare Book Librarian Jane Siegel chats with Columbia's The Current about Italian handwriting manuals, her 30-year tenure in the Libraries, and the role of the library in the age of the Internet.
A major effort is underway to digitize and preserve thousands of vulnerable audio and moving-image collection materials for both present and future researchers.
The Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Web Archive preserves websites in numerous subjects from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Ph.D. candidate Mateusz Mayer co-curated an exhibition of rarely-seen, historic portraits from the University's art collection, held by Avery Library.
Meet Polyxeni Georgiadi, a member of the Libraries' all-important cataloging team, which maintains order across Columbia's vast library system.
How many Columbians does it take to change a lightbulb? Columbia Magazine investigates and, actually, just one - but relamping the Libraries' reading rooms can be a tall order.
From quiet reading rooms to late-night study spots, here's a crash course on the Libraries from Columbia Spectator - just in time for finals season!
View a Hebrew manuscript complete with prayers for numerous occasions and vibrant illustrations that's been digitized and made accessible for researchers.
To celebrate National Library Week, we asked students how the Libraries supports them and their answers reminded us why our work is so worthwhile.
