The Low Down spoke with RBML curator Jocelyn Wilk about her thinking behind @1968CU, the University Archive’s new Twitter feed documenting the 1968 protests that shook Columbia’s campus. A new @columbialib project is using a historical Twitter feed to document the protests that took place at the University in 1968 (@1968CU). Read all about it […]
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin on the class conscious roots of SNCC
Since the 1990s, with social historians looking back on how we’ve told the history of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin has come to the fore as a central leader in the movement. Specifically, for decades, he was the unsung hero behind the conceptualization of the 1963 March on Washington. But more than that, this […]
Event | Roger Chartier on textual mobility
Wednesday, 7 February 2018, 6pm, Room 523 in Butler Library On Wednesday, February 7, the RBML and Karla Nielsen, Curator of Literature and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, hosts Roger Chartier, Professor in the Collège de France and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Chartier will use Molière’s play, […]
Conference | New Perspectives on 1968: 50 Years After “The Revolution”
April 27-28, Weekend Conference, Faculty House From Morningside Heights to Mexico City, Czechoslovakia to China, Paris to Tokyo, the yearlong crises of 1968 linked world communities in a unique and epochal series of dramatic confrontations. The repercussions are still being felt. A two-day interdisciplinary conference will discuss critical new conversations on the legacy and continued […]
What were the main ingredients in recipes from 1902-1904?
Among the recent additions to the University Archives is a fascinating recipe book put together by Clara Schauffler (1879-1972) from her time as a student in domestic science at Teachers College from September 1902 to June 1904. As a student pursuing the then-new two-year curriculum in domestic science, Schauffler took DS 10, Foods and DS […]