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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Reader

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

Adult Education Goes to Market

by Sandra Salmans

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All About CORE

by Dan Chasan, Photographs by Bob Adelman

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Architecture and Books

by Frank Alvah Parsons

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Art in Advertising

by Frank Alvah Parsons

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Black-Music Concerts in Carnegie Hall, 1912-1915

by Lester A. Walton, L. H. White, A. W. K. and Lucien H. White

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What is a City?

by Lewis Mumford

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Cognitive Dissonance

by Leon Festinger

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Collected Poems

by Mark Statman

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Conspicuous Consumption

by Thorsten Veblen

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Democracy and Fascism: From Europe to America

by Peter Rutkoff and William B. Scott

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Dynamic Symmetry

by Violet Holsinger Mueller

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Education and Work

by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Education for an Industrial Age

by Alfred Kahler and Ernest Hamburger

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The Exhibition Table

by Alice Rice Cook

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Foreword

by Alvin Johnson

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Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music

by Charles Amirkhanian, Joel Sachs

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A History of History

by James Harvey Robinson

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How to Die in America

by Stanley Diamond

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The India Report

by Ray and Charles Eames

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The Lady of the Salon

by Emily James Putnam

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The Last Don

by Mario Puzo

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The Legacy of Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Psychology

by D. BRETT KING, MICHAEL WERTHEIMER, HEIDI KELLER and KEVIN CROCHETIÈRE

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Letters from America: Hans Weisse

by Ian Bent, David Bretherton, William Drabkin

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How We Listen

by Aaron Copland

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Louise Tilly in Intergenerational Perspective

by Michael Hanagan and Mary Jo Maynes

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Love’s Reason

by Sara Ruddick

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Maternal Thinking

by Sarah Ruddick

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A Conversation about Maternal Thinking (Interview)

by Andrea O'Reilly

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Music and Children

by David Mannes

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Nature of Abstract Art

by Meyer Schapiro

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New York’s New School

by Albert W. Landa, Theodor Schuchat and J. Kirk Sale

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My Own Life

by Dorion Cairns

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Patrons of Progress

by Maurice Berger

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La Pensée Sauvage

by Claude Lévi Strauss

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The Piscator Notebook

by Judith Malina

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The Political Theater

by Erwin Piscator

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Sartre for the twenty-first century?

by David L. Swartz and Vera L. Zolberg

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Shakespeare

by W. H. Auden

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The Social Construction of Reality

by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

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A Statement

by Charles Beard

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How to Treat a Woman

by Jennifer Firestone

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A Work of One’s Own

by Sara Ruddick

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Working with Live Material

by Lee Strasberg and Richard Schechner

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The Worldly Philosophers

by Robert Heilbroner

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