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Feb. 2: RBML Exhibition – Seasons of Celebration: Thomas Merton @ 100
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Feb. 5th @ 6:00 PM – Book History Colloquium: “Cold War Modernists”
Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy Greg Barnhisel, Associate Professor of English, Duquesne University Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 6:00 PM Butler Library, Room 523 During the 1950s, after President Eisenhower created the United States Information Agency, the translation and dissemination of American books abroad—by public and private bodies, overtly and covertly—became a […]
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Eric Foner Discusses the “Record of Fugitives” at the RBML, Jan. 29, 6pm
Thursday, Jan. 29th, 6pm. Butler Library, Room 203, Columbia University. “Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad and the Record of Fugitives” A discussion of his new book by Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University. Please join us for a conversation on research, discovery, and the “record of fugitives,” […]