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,” […]

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RBML Exhibition– “Comics at Columbia: Past, Present, Future”

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) is pleased to announce the exhibition:  Comics at Columbia: Past, Present, Future.  The exhibition opened October 6th and runs through January 23rd, 2015 in the Kempner Gallery at the RBML – 6th Floor East, Butler Library.   Charles Saxon (’40 CC), Untitled. Charles Saxon Collection, […]

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