by Jennifer In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, The Greene Space presented From Emancipation to the Great Migration, an evening of discussion and performances that is available online at: The Greene Space. The event included Dr. Khalil Muhammad (Director of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) and Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
Graduate Internship in Primary Sources Now Accepting Applications
The Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Graduate Student Internship in Primary Sources. The Columbia University Libraries’ Graduate Student Internship Program is designed to enrich graduate studies and professional training in primary sources through an introduction to archival work. Interns will gain hands-on training in archival […]
Monday, Feb. 11th: The Business History Forum at Columbia University
“The Bretton Woods Transcripts: New Findings” with Kurt Schuler, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability; Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury; co-editor of The Bretton Woods Transcripts The 1944 international financial conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire established the IMF and the World Bank, and has shaped the international monetary system for nearly 70 years. […]
Leon Davidson Flying Saucer Collection
The flying saucer has been a meme in the U.S. at least since Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting near Mt. Rainier, but discs in the sky have "appeared" in global manuscripts from Japan through Europe for hundreds of years. The post-war 20th-century explosion of interest is inextricably bound up with the Cold War, nuclear weaponry, and […]
ONLINE EXHIBIT– “The Unwritten History”: Alexander Gumby’s African America
This online exhibit explores the efforts of Alexander Gumby to create a documentary history of African-American achievement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. An influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance, Gumby compiled a scrapbook collection of approximately 300 volumes in support of his project, filled with news clippings, photographs, pamphlets, handbills, original artwork, manuscripts, and […]