We are delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library‘s Kempner Gallery: Original Copies: Facsimiles and their Mediations of Authenticity and Ownership. The desire to capture likenesses, to reproduce things of value as closely as possible, stretches deep back into human history. We have been creating visually […]
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Research at the RBML | Lawrence Stern on Robert K. Merton
Sociology Professor Lawrence Stern is making his way through 200 linear feet and nearly 500 boxes of materials that document sociologist Robert K. Merton’s decades at Columbia. Stern’s forthcoming monograph, Robert K. Merton: A Scholarly Life will draw significantly on his finds in the RBML archives, from Merton’s lecture notes and correspondence, to his staggering to-do lists […]
Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscripts Library Welcomes the Josefina Báez Papers, the Tenth in the Latino Arts and Activisms Collection
Rare Book & Manuscripts Library’s Latino Arts and Activisms (LAAS) collection has acquired the papers of writer, performer, and theorist Josefina Báez. The LAAS collection seeks to acquire the papers and records of Latinos and Latino organizations in New York that may be of enduring significance as research resources for the city and the world. […]
Researcher Profile | Leïla Morsy on the closure of Black Medical Schools
Senior Lecturer at Flinders University’s College of Medicine and Public Health, Leïla Morsy visited the RBML as part of her work on The Medical Color Line, a project that examines how powerful philanthropies in the early twentieth century restructured medical education and underfunded Black medical schools, excluding Black doctors from the medical field and creating long-lasting legacies […]
Research at the RBML | Scott Spillman on Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick
After more than a decade working in the RBML, historian Scott Spillman has made unexpected discoveries in the Richard Hofstadter papers, examined a class syllabus that pre-dates historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick’s landmark collaboration Slavery (1959), and found unexpected correspondence in which Elkins and McKitrick lay out the genesis of their analysis of […]