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Institute of Current World Affairs records, 1914-2018, bulk 1926-2011

147 linear feet

The Institute of Current World Affairs records document the history of the ICWA, its sister organization, the American Universities Field Staff, and its founders, Charles and John Crane. Documents include first-hand reports authored by Fellows and field staff, correspondence, minutes, planning documents, subject files, financial records, publications, and photographs.

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Columbia University Archives

Nicholas Murray Butler speeches, 1882-1947

7.51 linear feet

This collection contains copies of Butler's speeches delivered at Columbia University as well as at numerous other institutions from 1882 to 1947 during his tenure as president of the Industrial Education Association as well as Columbia University. While the speeches address a number of topics, they primarily focus on the state of America's higher educational system, potential educational reforms, and local and international American politics (particularly in relation to the Republican Party and war).

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Human Rights Watch records: Record Group 1: Helsinki Watch, 1952-2003, bulk 1978-1994

271 linear feet
This collection contains the records of the United States based human rights organization, Human Rights Watch. Materials include correspondence and e-mail communications, professional and personal field notes, testimonies and interviews, advocacy, policy planning material, and briefing papers.
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Hubert H. Harrison papers, 1893-1927

23.5 linear feet
The papers of Hubert Harrison, the brilliant and influential writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist in Harlem during the early decades of the 20th century.
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Constance Baker Motley Papers, 1935-2006

13.72 linear feet

The bulk of the Motley papers document her professional life. The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, speeches, interviews, photographs, audio cassettes, and memorabilia.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Center for Research on Women records, 1962-2020

57 Linear Feet
This collection consists of records from the Barnard Center for Research on Women, formerly known as the Barnard Women's Center. It includes bylaws; director's and financial reports; correspondence; Executive Committee minutes; planning and publicity materials for and recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist Conference, career workshops and other events; and administrative materials related to women's studies courses, the Women's Center Resource Collection, the Women's Counseling Project, and other projects and publications.
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BC13-58_SFAudio_202, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Closing Session, 1986-03-22 Box 45

BC13-58_SFAudio_202, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Closing
Session, 1986-03-22

Closing session of the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIII at Barnard College. Features talk by Joan W. Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey) and an open plenary moderated by Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Women's Center. Papers presented or name of session: "Reconsiderations from the Perspective of an Historian"; "Open Plenary".

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2018
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1983-1987

BC13-58_SFAudio_174, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Science Fiction and Political Imagination, part 1, 1986-03-22 Box 45

BC13-58_SFAudio_174, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Science
Fiction and Political Imagination, part 1, 1986-03-22

Panel discussion with Thyrza Goodeve, Lisa Bloom, S. Paige Baty and Susan Gevirtz of The Feminist Science Fiction Study Group, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz on feminism, imagination, and madness as a fiction against science. Part of the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIII at Barnard College. This recording is followed by BC13-58_SFAudio_175. Papers presented or name of session: "Experiencing Imagination: Imagining Experience, Science Fiction Madness and Feminism"; "The Movement of Revolution in 1960s Feminist Poetics and 1980s Feminist Film".

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2018
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1983-1987

BC13-58_SFAudio_175, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Science Fiction and Political Imagination, part 2, 1986-03-22 Box 45

BC13-58_SFAudio_175, The Scholar and the Feminist XIII (Women's Images and Politics): Science
Fiction and Political Imagination, part 2, 1986-03-22

Panel discussion with Thyrza Goodeve, Lisa Bloom, S. Paige Baty and Susan Gevirtz of The Feminist Science Fiction Study Group, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz on feminism, imagination, and madness as a fiction against science. Part of the Scholar and Feminist Conference XIII at Barnard College. This recording is preceded by BC13-58_SFAudio_174 Papers presented or name of session: "Some ship thing who sang (even human voices) in the foreground space and a lake"; Unnamed paper .

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2018
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1983-1987
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V. K. Wellington Koo papers, 1906-1992, bulk 1931-1966

120.5 Linear Feet
The V. K. Wellington Koo papers document the diplomatic legacy of Wellington Koo as a Chinese statesman and diplomat of the 20th Century. The papers primarily consist of materials collected during Koo's diplomatic career, relating to the Lytton Commission, 1932-1933; the League of Nations, 1931-1940; the United Nations, 1944-1946; his ambassadorships to France, 1932-1941; to Britain, 1941-1946; to the United States, 1946-1956; as the Senior Advisor to the Republic of China from 1956; and as the Judge on the International Court of Justice, 1957-1966. The materials include correspondence, diaries, memoranda, manuscripts, documents, notes, speeches, maps, photographs, printed material, and audio visual material. The bulk of the materials emphasizes China's domestic and foreign affairs, such as the Sino-Japanese conflict, World War II and the Cold War in the Far East region, as well as the League of Nations and the United Nations.
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Kwang Pu Chen papers, 1936-1968

4.27 linear feet
The K.P. Chen papers documented the banking and finance career of a banker, entrepreneur, and finance advisor, Kwang Pu Chen dating from 1936 to 1968. Materials in the papers include accounts, loan contracts, correspondence, telegrams, diaries, financial reports, , letters, news clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, printed materials, and reports.
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Bella Abzug papers, 1937-1996, bulk 1970-1986

605 linear feet

Congressional papers consisting of correspondence memoranda, speeches, reports, photographs and printed materials relating to her terms in Congress. The collection contains general correspondence and administrative files, as well as extensive subject files on a wide variety of topics with which Abzug was involved while in Congress. Also included are Legislative files, being the chronological files of background material for legislation considered on the House floor, and printed versions of legislation by Abzug and others. The Casework Files, relating to Abzug's advocacy on behalf of constituents involved in civil rights, housing, military, employment and related cases, are closed. Among the major correspondents are Carl Albert, Abraham D. Beame, Hugh L. Carey, Gerald R. Ford, Edward I. Koch, John V. Lindsay, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Gloria Steinem. Materials added in 1981 include: draft transcripts of an oral history, appointment books, speeches and subject files (particularly on privacy and freedom of information) all interfiled in the collection and campaign materials press releases and newspaper clippings.

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Research in Contemporary Cultures records, 1939-1962, bulk 1947-1952

19.5 linear feet
This collection contains the records of the Research in Contemporary Cultures project (1947-1953) begun by Ruth Benedict at Columbia University, and carried out by Margaret Mead at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History after Benedict's death in 1948. The records of three successor projects, Studies in Soviet Culture (1948-1952), Studies in Contemporary Culture (1951-1952), and and Study Program of Human Health and the Ecology of Man (1954-1956) are also included. The purpose of these projects was anthropological study at a distance of global cultures inaccessible for direct observation, in an attempt to establish the "national character" of countries of geopolitical interest to the United States government.
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