Researcher Profile |

We see them every day, handing them a key as they walk in each morning, and receiving it back toward the end of the day. Most often they are hunkered down over a particular archive, getting to understand a portion of one of our archives better than anybody here. We await the longer scholarly projects […]

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A Visit to the Churchyard

In honor of “spooky season”, we take a visit to the graves at Trinity churchyard. Columbians may know this churchyard as the final resting place of King’s College alumnus Alexander Hamilton (1804) and his wife Eliza Hamilton (1854). But there is a much earlier grave that dates back to the British colonial times and the […]

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Research at the RBML | Laura Kaiser finds Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds papers

Laura Fisher Kaiser, author and independent researcher, recently visited the RBML as part of her work on a new biography of novelist Frances Elizabeth Budgett, pen name Elizabeth Dejeans. Kaiser discusses some of her finds for The Fabulous Invention of Jazz-Age Novelist Elizabeth Dejeans in the Paul Reynolds literary agency collection below:   What brings you to […]

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Louise Nevelson at 125

Sculptor Louise Nevelson was born September 23, 1899 in Pereiaslav, Ukraine. To mark what would be her 125th birthday, we take a look at the connections between Nevelson and Columbia, now and then.  Did you know that Louise Nevelson received an honorary degree from Columbia at the 1977 Commencement? In 1977, Louise Nevelson was awarded […]

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