Forgive me, reader; it’s been a very long time since my last post. Why? Because every time I find something interesting to write about it gets… complicated, and I get distracted. For example: A comics class came for a hands-on session, and in addition to the comics the professor picked out, I showed them […]
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Researching Poor Children and Society: The New York Juvenile Asylum Records
Catherine Carson Ricciardi Archivist Since the New York Juvenile Asylum (NYJA) records were processed two years ago, the RBML has received many inquiries. In handling these queries, I’ve become quite familiar with this collection and its wealth of information. While many inquiries come from genealogists, the records also provide primary source material for historians interested […]
The Dunning School of…Baseball?
The Dunning School of . . . Baseball? (Written by Nick Osborne) William Archibald Dunning was one of the most influential US historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even as he wrote such works as Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction (1898), Dunning trained numerous other scholars from his perch as […]
Group Research Records: Grassroots Right-Wing Iconography
Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library has launched "Choosing Sides: Right-Wing Icons in the Group Research Records," an online exhibition now available on the Libraries’ website. The exhibition was curated by Nicholas Osborne, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia. Nick also wrote this blog post. (Above: The Church League of […]
Problem: How to construct a vehicle with which one can transport oneself where one likes, without a horse
As part of an ongoing scholarly discussion, a colleague sent me the following image: Now, the image, which depicts a vintage Frejus, does not at first appear to have a rare book or manuscript connection; however, RBML’s collections have great diversity and can provide scholarly content across many disciplines–here’s how. If we consider Jacques Ozanam’s […]