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Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
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How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

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Columbia in the Movies

22 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

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Mad Libs

In a new show of experimental theater called Gravid Water, actors and improvisers meet onstage to perform a series of unrehearsed scenes

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The King of Maps

No one knows the streets of New York like John Tauranac

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A Literary Filiation

Few are aware that Norman Podhoretz's intellectual life began well before 1960

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Speak, Memory

A Columbia archive helps history find a voice

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Cracks in the Foundation

Supporters and critics agree that the United Nations needs an overhaul. Six Columbia insiders assess the damage and tell us where repairs should begin

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Richard Hofstadter: Columbia’s Evolutionary Historian

Thirty-five years after his death, the prolific author is still leaving his sometimes mordant mark

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The Concerned Eye of Jack Eisenberg

Eisenberg ’62CC began his photography career as the landmark Concerned Photographer exhibition started its international tour in 1967

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My Columbia

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Godzilla the Chameleon

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Reading Between the Acts

Director Peter Brook was drawn to the Columbia audience as much as it was drawn to him

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Our Babe in Beijing

Rachel DeWoskin's new book reveals her to be a subtle scholar of Sino-American perceptions and misperceptions

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Points of Light

An appreciation of the late Anthony Hecht

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