In the 1930s, journalist, biographer, and Columbia professor of history, Allan Nevins began to worry that future historians would find a dearth of evidence documenting the personal side of historic events because ephemeral telephone conversations were replacing letter writing. Nevins began experimenting with what he called oral autobiography: interviews with “living Americans who have led […]
Granary Books exhibit in the Columbia RBML: September 8, 2015-January 30, 2016
Next month the Columbia Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open an exhibition on the artist book and poetry publisher Granary Books: The Book Undone: Thirty Years of Granary Books. The exhibit runs in the RBML Kempner cases from September 8, 2015 through January 30, 2016, and will be open to the public during our […]
Go Set a Watchman in the papers of Harper Lee’s literary agents
HarperCollins publishes Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman today, July 14, 2015. With an initial print run of 2 million copies, this is the most highly anticipated book release of the year, carefully promoted by HarperCollins since their February 3rd announcement . Go Set a Watchman’s publication has also generated advance press in the form of controversy. HarperCollins has billed […]
4/22 @ 1:00 PM Lehman Ctr. – Prof. Robert Lifset, “Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism”
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4/15 @ 1:00 PM – Lehman Ctr: NYU’s David Huyssen, “Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920”
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