Contents

  • Histories

    Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.

  • People

    Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.

  • Reader

    Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.

  • Reflections & Analysis

    Podcasts, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
[email protected]

Link here to the Style Guide for the Histories of The New School website This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Category: Curriculum

Posted in HISTORIES

Parsons School of Design Departments and Programs by Year (1896 – 2003; 2008 – 2009)

by The New School Archives and Special Collections

Categories:

The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. Does not include summer programs Asterisk (*) indicates certificate or degrees awarded Bullets indicate programs within a department Graduate information starts in 1978-1990 (graduate information is found in undergraduate catalogues […]

Posted in HISTORIES

Parsons School of Design Undergraduate Departments and Programs by Name (1896 – 2003)

by The New School Archives and Special Collections

Categories:

The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. (P) indicates program. 2D Animation, Drawing and Multimedia Summer 1999(P) 3D Animation, Drawing and Multimedia Summer 1999(P) Advanced Studio Summer 1993(P), Summer 1994(P) Advertising and Graphics 1995-1996 (P), 1996-1997(P), 1997-1998(P), […]

Posted in HISTORIES

Parsons School of Design Programs (pre-1913 – 2019)

by The New School Archives and Special Collections

Categories:

The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome. Pre-1913: Courses in: Fine Arts (Drawing, Painting), Illustration, Communication Design (Commercial Advertising), Interior Design (Interior Decoration), Architecture (Constructive Architecture), Fashion Design (Costume Design), Textile Design (Textile, Rug, Carpet, and Wallpaper) […]

Posted in REFLECTIONS & ANALYSIS

A New Vision

by Nicholas Allanach, Director of Academic Operations, NSPE

Categories:

The old building at 65 5th Avenue was awkward, badly lit, uninspiring, and ultimately, unsustainable. Of course the old building was never intended to serve as a functional academic facility. Until 1968, the building was used as a department store; ultimately, the University purchased and renovated the property to house the Graduate Faculty of the […]

Posted in PEOPLE

George Pitts

by Jennifer Weinraub, Librarian, The New School Libraries and Archives

Categories:

Multi-talented George Pitts taught photography at Parsons for two decades, from 1998 until his untimely death in 2017. He came to Parsons as the revolutionary, founding Director of Photography at Vibe magazine, where he worked from 1993 to 2004. He also served as the Director of Photography at LIFE magazine from 2004 to 2007. His […]

Posted in PEOPLE

Thorstein Veblen

by Agnes Szanyi, PhD ‘20

Categories:

Thorstein Veblen’s educational philosophy and book The Higher Learning in America deeply influenced the unique character of the New School for Social Research in the first discussions about creating an adult education institution in 1918. Veblen, the son of poor Norwegian farmers, was born in 1857 in Wisconsin. At age 17, he enrolled in Carleton […]

Explore by category:
  • Activism
  • Administration
  • Anthropology
  • Architecture
  • Archival work
  • Arts
  • Branding
  • Buildings
  • Curriculum
  • Dance
  • Design
  • Ecole Libre
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Eugene Lang College
  • Fashion
  • Film
  • Founding
  • Gender
  • History
  • Immigration
  • Interior Design
  • Labor
  • Libraries
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Mannes School of Music
  • Marketing
  • Music
  • Parsons School of Design
  • Philanthropy
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Psychology
  • Publicity
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Sociology
  • Students
  • Technology
  • Theater
  • Typography
  • University in Exile
  • Urban Studies
  • Women
  • Writing