Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The report, Columbia University and Slavery identifies the slave owners among its first presidents: Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Moore, William Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Duer, and Frederick A. P. Barnard. Duer's family wealth derived from the transatlantic slave trade.
The history of Columbia University began prior to its founding in 1754 in New York City as King's College, by royal charter of King George II of Great Britain. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in New York state , and the fifth-oldest in the United States .
The Dunning School was a historiographical school of thought regarding the Reconstruction period of American history (1865–1877), supporting conservative elements against the Radical Republicans who introduced civil rights in the South. It was named for Columbia University professor William Archibald Dunning, who taught many of its followers.
Columbia University will acknowledge its ties to slavery and racism by adding historical markers to four residence halls. As reported The post Columbia University acknowledges ties to slavery, KKK ...
Fields was the first African American woman to earn tenure at Columbia University. She has also taught at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Mississippi. She is widely known for her 1990 essay, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America."
Burgess was born in Cornersville, Tennessee, on August 26, 1844. [3] His father was a staunch Whig and part of the Tennessee planter aristocracy. [3] His family, which held slaves, were unionists during the American Civil War, believing that slavery could more easily be maintained within a union with Northern states where the Northern states had to return fugitive slaves to the South.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968" about protests ...
Columbia University officials did not respond to an email asking about the school’s position on the legacy of the 1968 events. Those events, like the current protest, “sparked a huge increase in student activism around the country,” Mark Rudd, a leader of that protest, said in an email to The Associated Press.