presview.jpg (81700 bytes) Events at Columbia in 1968 constitute the most extensively covered campus disturbance in the history of American higher education. The longterm impact of the news accounts and images beyond Morningside Heights can be only suggested by the prominence that continues to be assigned to them in accounts of American society and culture in the late 1960s. The purpose here, however, is to present materials that will assist in achieving an understanding of Columbia '68 as a critical moment in the long and ongoing history of Columbia University.

 


Columbia '68 is one of six interactive histories of select periods of Columbia University now under development.

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Parry Creedon (BC 1999) Rachel Furst (BC 2001)
Emily Hawkins (BC 2000) Bob McCaughey, History Department
Colin Purdy, BEATL Rachel Sussman (BC 2000)

April 1, 1999
ram31@columbia.edu