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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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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Read her excellent book: uncpress.org/978146966932... and remember that you have a role in shaping the present.
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The Young Lords
Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am stunned to hear of the passing of the fierce, brilliant and principled scholar activist Johanna Fernandez. Johanna's scholarship will endure. She was a gem and the world is worse for her no longer being here. Rest in power, comrade.
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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 07/05/2026
In the pages of a campus paper, Jewish college students in New York lamented Israeli children sleeping in shelters, debated alleged Israeli war crimes, discussed colonialism in the Middle East and criticized anti-Zionist Jews. Read more: www.timesofisrael.com/9-miles-of-a...
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Last call! Join us tomorrow, Thurs. May 7, from 5–7 PM at the GC for Art, Justice, and Research. Food will be served! RSVP today; link in the bio! Please spread the word! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu @psc-cuny.org @cdha.bsky.social @johnjayrec.bsky.social @baruch.cuny.edu
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
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We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Great opportunity for Graduate Center students, next week! #TeachCUNY
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What can studying these histories of repression teach us about today’s campus crackdowns? What role does collecting and preserving our stories play in times of political upheaval, and what archival strategies might we use to navigate the present crisis?
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This event is also celebrating the release of a new online resource: The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s.
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Red Scare at CUNY: A Research Guide | Manifold @CUNY
The Red Scare at CUNY is a comprehensive guide to archives documenting anti-communist political repression of faculty, staff, and students at CUNY, primarily from the 1930s-1960s. Organized by reposit...
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
✨ May 4, 6-8pm ✨ We are thrilled to co-sponsor this timely conversation on the new McCarthyism on campus, with Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis + archivists/student journalists from Brooklyn College and WKCR 89.9FM. Join us @ CUNY Grad Center! @prisonculture.bsky.social @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social
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We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent - Center for the Humanities
Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. This panel discussion features Mariame Kaba, Jeanne Theoharis, ...
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We will explore: - Strategies for using the CUNY Digital History Archive to craft and explore a research question - How artifacts can prompt autobiographical reflection and personal writing - Close and intertextual reading practices through engaging with primary sources Join us!
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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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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I know these are really tough times for many, but if you have any cash to spare for Ron McGuire, lifelong social justice advocate, veteran of the CUNY student movement in the 60s, pro bono attorney for generations of student activists, it would be so appreciated. gofund.me/57aef830f
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Donate to Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire, organized by Ronald McGuire
Linda Clarke, Sandra Barros and Orlando Green are co-organizers of this fund… Ronald McGuire needs your support for Fundraiser for People's Lawyer Ron McGuire
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Please donate to help Ron McGuire, “the people’s lawyer,” who fought for so many #CUNY students and needs our help now
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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New week new opportunities! $2.5k for students to help design, develop, and draft an introduction to CUNY history OER to be published on the CUNY Manifold platform! libguides.gc.cuny.edu/jobs/grad-fe... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @minareeslibrary.bsky.social @cdha.bsky.social @cunygcdi.bsky.social
CUNY Digital History Archive OER Fellowship. Call for Applications. Apply by Feb. 17
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CUNY Digital History Archive @cdha.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
During the 1970s, the Save Hostos Movement became one of the most prolonged and successful mass movements in New York City. Read more about the Save Hostos! movement and explore documents collected by Gerald Meyer (RIP) at the CUNY Digital History Archive
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Save Hostos! · CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.
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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 · 10/01/2025
Congrats to Eugenio María de Hostos Community College for being one of the six inaugural winners of the Education Department's Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, h/t @insidehighered.com Hostos has long pioneered in instituting educational initiatives responsive to its students’ needs.
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Education Department names "Postsecondary Success" honorees
The U.S. Department of Education has named the six inaugural winners of its Postsecondary Success Recognition Program, which were selected out of a pool of 200 institutions invited to apply, according...
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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 · 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
Are you passionate about collecting, sharing, and mobilizing CUNY movement histories? We're recruiting volunteer researchers to join our project advisory board, research & editorial board, education & outreach committee, and collection curators: cdha.cuny.edu/participate
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Get Involved · CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni of the City University of New York.
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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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