In May ’68, responding to a request from student protest organizers, fusion rock band The Grateful Dead played a free concert on Low Plaza. Band member Mickey Hart writes: Always up for an adventure, we of course, went right along. Since the police and guards were closing off access to the majority of the campus – […]
Now available | Digitized early issues of The Blue and White
The Blue and White was founded in 1890 as a broadsheet weekly newspaper – looking similar to its competition the then bi-weekly Columbia Spectator. After 14 issues it changed format and became a monthly humorous and literary magazine. Content included lecture announcements, student poetry, critical essays, illustrations and drawings, and reports of what was happening […]
New in Collections | Comics@Columbia in circulation
Here’s what’s new in the comics and graphic novel collection here in the RBML. CUNY professor Bert Hansen contributed over six dozen educational comics, from Popeye giving career advice to Mexican biographies. Materials from Jerry Robinson’s library continue to grow, such as this 1947 guide to the comics business written by a young Stan Lee and illustrated by Golden […]
Columbia Lions | Frank Diehl Fackenthal
The RBML’s University Archivists feature a different graduate as part of their Columbia Lion series. Learn more information about Lions in the University Archives Collections and on exhibit in the RBML reading room cases. “I made the university my hobby and stuck around. My idea was that somebody had to watch the oven.” “Oven Watcher,” […]
Was your grandfather a Columbia engineer?
At the University Archives we receive a number of requests every year about Columbia alumni: a grandfather, great aunt, parent, cousin, etc. For this purpose, we put together a research guide to help genealogists find information about former Columbia students. The guide offers the most popular or most frequently consulted sources, both online and available […]