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CUNY Digital History Archive

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A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York. cdha.cuny.edu

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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Are you interested in teaching #CUNY history in your spring classes? Join our educators group for a winter workshop this Friday, January 16 from 1-3pm at City Tech Library in downtown Brooklyn. Space is limited, RSVP here: tinyurl.com/5n7euzme

Images of historical fliers above workshop details:
As you prepare for the spring semester, join the CDHA's Education & Outreach Committee for an interactive workshop on how to engage the CUNY Digital History Archive in your classrooms, libraries, or in your own research.
We will explore:
- Strategies for using the archive to craft and explore a research question
- How artifacts can prompt autobiographical reflection and personal writing
- Close and intertextual reading practices through engaging primary sources
Friday, January 16, 2026 1-3pm
City Tech LIbrary, 300 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY
RSVP required.
For more info: cdha@gc.cuny.edu

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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

From 1973-1979, Hostos students, staff, faculty, and community members mobilized three massive campaigns in the South Bronx, each of which accomplished its goal. There is a reason we use this image on our homepage. "Students and Faculty Take Over the 500 Building" cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/6...

Black and white photo from the 1970s, with activists climbing a chain-link fence to hang a banner in front of the "500 Building." The banner has text in Spanish and English that reads, "Este edificio pertenece al colegio eugenio maria de hostos. This building bleongs to Hostos Community College"

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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hostos was created as part of Open Admissions at CUNY to meet the needs of the Latino community in the South Bronx. First offering classes in 1970, it became the sole bilingual college in the New York City tri-state area. But Hostos was soon threatened with closure during the 1975 fiscal crisis.

Front page of the bilingual student newspaper at Hostos (De Hostos Echo) dated November/December 1975. Headline says "Thousands march to save Hostos" with a black and white image of a march outside Chase Manhattan Bank on 149th Street and 3rd Avenue in the South Bronx. Visible signs say: "Education is your right - fight" and "Don't let Hostos die, no more cutbacks"

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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today is a great day to think about how you might contribute to assembling the people’s history of the people’s university, because CUNY is contingent on us. Apply to join our project team!

Close-up of a small felt bird with a cute scarf and hat, wearing a big blue pin that says “CUNY is contingent on us,” with the CUNY Digital History Archive homepage visible in the background.

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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! We are excited to share our grassroots #CUNY histories with all of you. Here's one of our favorite items that speaks across generations, from a 1976 demonstration at the United Nations organized by the Black Students Union to protest campus closures cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/4...

Black and white protest flier. Headline says: Black Students Union and Black organizations demonstration against genocide and racism in the city's university, at the United Nations Building, 1 UN Plaza, April 9, 1976, 12pm. Paul Robeson Birthday. Line drawing of the UN building and student protestors beneath, birds and flags visible overhead. One student wears a Hostos sweatshirt and another wears Hunter College, and signs for John Jay, Medgar Evers, Staten Island, and Bronx Community College are visible. Another sign says: We want to see black people live again.

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