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 […]
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Mass incarceration from one family’s perspective, a Curatorial Short with Kurt Boone
In the RBML’s continuing Curatorial Shorts programming, we feature a collection of oral histories on mass incarceration collected by Kurt Boone for the Oral History Archives at Columbia. The collection holds eight interviews by Boone. Boon is a collector and documentarian of urban culture – including hip hop, graffiti art, and street style. You can […]
Research at the RBML | Marija Dalbello delves into the Industrial Workers of the World collections
Labor movements have often had to create their own newspapers to disseminate their message. In the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World managed dozens of dailies as part of their broader organizing strategy, including The Industrial Workers and Solidarity, as well as periodicals for non-English speakers, such as Industrialisti, for Finnish speakers. […]
Research at the RBML | Pedro Doreste
Pedro Doreste is a researcher whose work on the lasting impact of educational cinema in Puerto Rico brought him to the RBML to investigate the papers of the documentary filmmaker David Flaherty. Doreste’s project, entitled, An Accented Seminar: Puerto Rico’s Division of Community Education at the Flaherty, 1955-1963, examines the seminars hosted by Frances Flaherty that facilitated […]
Research at the RBML | Peter Weber investigates how philanthropies supercharge their impact
Peter Weber is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University. His work examines public life through the lens of philanthropy and non-profits. At the RBML, he dove into the Carnegie Corporation’s records from the 1970s that tracked their efforts to expand the impact of their philanthropy. He found evidence of internal disagreement within the foundation […]