An A-to-Z of Oral History at Columbia is a periodic posting featuring people, events, and organizations in the Oral History Archive at Columbia’s collections, as well as behind-the-scenes info about oral history methodology. Collection title: Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Oral History Collection Interview contents: The Institute for Research on […]
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Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers
By Sophia Scanlan, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, History PhD student Like all great journalist collections, the recently processed Patricia S. McCormack Papers (finding aid) offer insight into both the period she covered and the way she understood the world around her. Though the collection doubtless provides ample material for mid-to-late twentieth-century women’s historians, […]
Oral History in the News | Frances Perkins on NPR’s Throughline
Media producers, content creators, and documentarians familiar with Columbia’s oral history collections know that through a relatively easy licensing and permissions process, they can find and showcase audio gems for their productions. Most recently, NPR’s award-winning program Throughline put to good use the extensive oral history interview with Frances Perkins. Using audio to “bring history […]
Research from the RBML | Tessa Roynon writes about Toni Morrison’s editorial list
The Toni Morrison editorial files are a much-loved part of the Random House papers, tracking Morrison’s work with a host of renowned and canonical authors, including Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, Lucille Clifton, and Angela Davis. Below, Tessa Roynon, librarian at The Swan School, discusses why libraries should consider preserving examples of Morrison’s editorial list […]
Cross-posting | Librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson ’35
Our Barnard Archives and Special Collections and Communications colleagues showcase curator and librarian Jean Hutson Blackwell (Barnard ’35, Columbia ’36 and ’41) in this informative biographical tribute. For more on Hutson from the Oral History Archives at Columbia, you can listen to Hutson in her own words or read this transcript from her 1978 oral […]