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]

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Category: Technology

Posted in In the Archives

Manage All Those Research Photos Using Tropy!

by Anna Robinson-Sweet, Assistant Archivist, New School Archives and Special Collections

Many researchers who visit the Archives feel overwhelmed by the amount of information there is to take in. Luckily, we allow visitors to take photographs of material so that they can go back and read documents more closely. While photographs allow researchers to spend more time with archival materials, it can be hard to keep […]

Posted in In the Archives

Cameras in the Archives’ Reading Room

Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. Each time a class visits the New School Archives and Special Collections, the same general conversation transpires. Students: Can we take […]

Posted in In the Archives

Indoor / Outdoor Space Engineer

Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date. Please contact [email protected] with any questions. “I had always seen architecture as landscaping.” – Michael Kalil, “Seed Vision” interview, 1990 Kalil’s archive offers up several interesting pieces […]