Tues., April 16th: The Business History Forum at Columbia University “Corporations are People Too”: The Strange History of Corporations and the Fourteenth Amendment with Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Prof. of Economics and History, Yale University In 1886 the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Morrison R. Waite, declared at the start […]
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Wed., Apr. 10th: The Business History Forum at Columbia University
“Other People’s Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made” with Charles Bagli of the The New York Times In just over three years, real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investors’ dollars on a single deal. The New York Times reporter […]
Lina and Serge: The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
Jennifer B. Lee, Curator for Performing Arts Simon Morrison will be giving a talk on his just-published biography of Lina Prokofiev, wife of composer Serge Prokofiev, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at 6:00 pm in Columbia University's Butler Library, Room 523. The event is free and open to the public. Following World War II, Lina […]
Going Online: Special Collections Research Accounts
Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library is rolling out a web-based circulation system to streamline how our users request material at the RBML. Researchers will have a new, web-based Special Collections Research Account to create requests for immediate or future use, with the added benefit of having access to their complete history of requests from […]
RBML: Angles in Pink
Just back from a stint at the American Academy in Rome, a community of dedicated, talented, learned people, where you join others at long tables for meals: you chat about cities visited, books read, projects in process, and before you know it, a flash of connection! Jenny Okun! An artist-photographer whose eyes see shapes and […]