This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting objects and archival documents from Social Climates: Power and the Environment in the Archives, an exhibition currently on view in the Kempner Gallery at Columbia’s RBML. Drawing on a wide array of RBML collections and materials, Social Climates explores the interconnections between culture, history, politics, […]
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Nature’s Archive
This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting objects and archival documents from Social Climates: Power and the Environment in the Archives, an exhibition currently on view in the Kempner Gallery at Columbia’s RBML. Drawing on a wide array of RBML collections and materials, Social Climates explores the interconnections between culture, history, politics, […]
The Social Climate of Cotton Manufacturing
This is part of a series of blog posts highlighting objects and archival documents from Social Climates: Power and the Environment in the Archives, an exhibition currently on view in the Kempner Gallery at Columbia’s RBML. Drawing on a wide array of RBML collections and materials, Social Climates explores the interconnections between culture, history, politics, […]
Processing the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records
“First of all, congratulations on finishing your oral exams.” So reads the first sentence of a correspondence found in the first box of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records, which I am processing as part of the Graduate Student Internship Program in Primary Sources at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library this […]
“Up against the wall”, a Curatorial Short by Lukas Moe (San Jose State University)
Last month, the library hosted poetry scholar Lukas Moe for its March edition of the Curatorial Short series. Drawing on the RBML’s 1968: COLUMBIA IN CRISIS exhibition, the talk considered archival work in literary studies as being written on the “wall” of institutions during moments of historic transformation and challenge. As it recedes further into […]