Columbia University in the City of New York
Help

Ebony and Ivy: Slavery's Role at Early U.S. Universities, Including Our Own

Ebony and Ivy by Craig Stevens Wilder book cover

America’s earliest academies, like the nation itself, have a legacy of slavery woven into their very fabric. In his latest work MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder (GSAS’89,’93,’94) examines the tarnished relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the rise of the American college.

On April 1 Wilder returned to campus at the invitation of historian Eric Foner and President Lee C. Bollinger to discuss Ebony and Ivy at a University panel in Low Library that was convened and moderated by Foner, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History

More

Top Stories

Ten Faculty Members Receive Guggenheim Fellowships

Several Columbia and Barnard professors, in disciplines ranging from dance to history to writing, were awarded prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships for 2014, based on their distinguished achievement and exceptional future promise.

More

Columbia Professors Help Illuminate the Crisis in Ukraine

Ever since the anti-government protests broke out late last year in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev, many journalists in the U.S. and abroad have turned to Columbia’s faculty to provide insight and essential context on the tangled history and politics of the region.

More