Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Read the latest Back Table blog post from Umrat Khan on Reproducing Archives: The Sensorium in the Digital Realm.

The piece features correspondence from James Lardner, a journalist who enlisted in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

Umrat Khan on Reproducing Archives: The Sensorium in the Digital Realm – The Back Table Umrat Khan on Reproducing Archives: The Sensorium in the Digital Realm Mar 01, 2023 by Michael Koncewicz in NYU Special Collections This piece is written by Umrat Khan, a Graduate Student Assistant at NYU Special Collections. She is currently a Master’s Student at NYU’s Experimental Humanities a...

On View at NYU Kimmel Windows

March 3-Sept. 15, 2023Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) From New York University Special Collections, Tamiment-Wagner Collections, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will be on view from March 3-mid-September 2023 at NYU’s Kimmel Windows, a 13-window exhibition space spanning LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street.

The exhibition grew from a 2019 course that Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Miriam Basilio, taught with Assistant University Archivist Danielle Nista, who is one of the exhibition’s curators. That course drew from Basilio’s 2013 book, Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions and the Spanish Civil War.

NYU’s Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) preserves the histories of the U.S. volunteers who fought alongside the Spanish Republic against the fascist coalition led by General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and those who provided humanitarian assistance with the Medical Bureau.

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NYU Kimmel Windows Presents “Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)” March 3-Sept. 15, 2023 The exhibition uses rare archival material to explore the history of the war and the stories of the U.S. volunteers who served with the Spanish Republic.

Join Luca Falciola, as he discusses his book Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s with Clayborne Carson on March 9th (5 PM ET).

Luca Falciola is a lecturer in History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of social movements, radicalism, and political violence during the Cold War. His publications include an award-winning book on The Movement of 1977 in Italy (Carocci, 2015) as well as articles and essays on various aspects of leftist politics in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the USA. After earning a PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris, he held research appointments at the Catholic University of Milan, Yale University, New York University, and the European Institute at Columbia.

He is the author of Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements.

Clayborne Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the African-American freedom struggle. Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, Dr. Carson has taught at Stanford University, where he is now Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial professor of history and Ronnie Lott founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Carson's publications include In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981); Malcolm X: The FBI File (1991); African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom (2005, co-author); and a memoir, Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). In 1985, the late Coretta Scott King invited Dr. Carson to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Carson’s direction, the King Papers Project has produced seven volumes of an ongoing comprehensive edition of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2005, Carson founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute to endow and expand the work of the King Papers Project.

Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s – 1970s Join Luca Falciola, as he discusses his book Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970s with Clayborne Carson.

BOOK TALK- Carolyn Eisenberg- Fire and Rain
February 22nd (5 PM ET)
Virtual Event (Zoom)

Join historians Carolyn Eisenberg and Greg Grandin for a conversation on Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

BOOK TALK- Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia Join author, Carolyn Eisenberg, as she discusses her recent book with Greg Grandin.

The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is honored to be the home of the Victor Navasky Papers. We mourn the loss of one of the most influential voices in progressive media.

For those who are interested in learning more about his records: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_594/

Victor Navasky: An Avatar of the American Left, 1932–2023 Editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; editorial director and publisher, 1995–2005.

You can now watch footage of the 36th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards. Held on December 1, 2022, the event was sponsored by the New York Labor History Association, Labor Arts, and the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

John Commerford Labor Education Awards 2022 The 36th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards were presented on December 1, 2022 by a partnership of the New York Labor History Association, Labor A...

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Join us online this Thursday at 6 PM ET for the Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards.

NYLHA's 36th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards Honoring activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky for their contributions to workers' empowerment.

NYLHA's 36th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST

Honoring activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky for their contributions to workers' empowerment.

Every year since 1987 the NYLHA has celebrated two activists for their contributions to workers' empowerment. The 2022 Awards will honor author, educator and labor historian Dorothy Sue Cobble, and historian, activist and author Melvin Dubofsky. They do extraordinary work bringing workers’ history to life and illuminating its relevance for today.

Attendance at this virtual event is free, with donations strongly encouraged. To support the John Commerford Labor Education Awards visit the NYLHA Commerford page.

This event is a partnership between The New York Labor History Association, Labor Arts, and the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive at NYU Special Collections.

The New York Labor History Association (NYLHA) was founded in 1976 by trade unionists, academics, students, archivists, educators, labor editors, attorneys, and retirees, mostly from New York State. NYLHA encourages the study of workers and their organizations and serves as a bridge between past and present, and between labor unionists and academics.

Labor Arts is a virtual museum exhibiting and cataloging the art of the labor movement and working people.

NYLHA's 36th Annual John Commerford Labor Education Awards Honoring activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky for their contributions to workers' empowerment.

Kim Kelly on The Untold History of American Labor
November 16, 2022, 5:00 PM ET
IN-PERSON Event at Bobst Library (Room 251)

Join author Kim Kelly as she discusses her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor with Hamilton Nolan.

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TAMIMENT BOOK TALK | Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Join author Kim Kelly as she discusses her book with Hamilton Nolan.

Kim Kelly on The Untold History of American Labor
November 16, 2022, 5:00 PM ET
IN-PERSON Event at Bobst Library (Room 251)

Join author Kim Kelly as she discusses her book Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor with Hamilton Nolan.

TAMIMENT BOOK TALK | Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Join author Kim Kelly as she discusses her book with Hamilton Nolan.

Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book, Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s.

Wed, November 2, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

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Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s A Tamiment Book Talk with author, Bettina Aptheker.