Mar 14, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
by Caitlin Colban-Waldron, Adjunct Archivist In celebration of Women’s History Month, we share one of the most-requested items from QC’s Special Collections and Archives department: the 1942 yearbook photo of graduating senior Marie Daly. In the photo, her hair is set...
Feb 8, 2022 | Cover to Cover, News
In celebration of Black History Month, this month we share an item from our digital shelves: an oral history with Soribel Genao. Soribel Genao is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the Department of Educational and Community Programs at Queens College....
Jan 31, 2022 | Cover to Cover
By Patricia Reguyal, Archives Assistant Considered “the founder of modern philosophy,” René Descartes is famous for the declaration, “I think, therefore I am.” (While this formulation is famous in Latin as “Cogito, ergo sum,” it was originally written in French...
Dec 13, 2021 | Cover to Cover, News
By Patricia Reguyal, Archives Assistant Bleak House by Charles Dickens Bleak House was Charles Dickens’s ninth novel, and, according to Dickens scholar Paul Schlicke, “technically his most ambitious novel and widely held to be...
Nov 12, 2021 | Cover to Cover, News
Barbara Rosenthal Photo by Rhys Votano The archival collection of influential cross-media artist Barbara Rosenthal ’75, “Old Master of New Media,” has been acquired by Queens College CUNY in a combined sale and donation facilitated by a generous patron. The artist’s...
