List of books about Columbia
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Contents
Biography
- "Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler" by Michael Rosenthal (2006) CLIO Amazon.com
- "Eisenhower at Columbia", by Travis Jacobs (2001) CLIO Google eBook (limited preview) Barnes and Noble
- King's College Alumni by Leonard Felix Fuld (originally published in Columbia University Quarterly from September 1907-September 1911)
- "Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, by John Fulton (1896) Google eBook
Fiction
- "Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution," by Jerome Charyn (2008) Amazon
- "Moon Palace", by Paul Auster (1989) CLIO
- "Morningside Heights," by Cheryl Mendelson (2005) Amazon
- "Vanity of Duluoz," by Jack Kerouac (1968) Amazon
- "The Caine Mutiny," by Herman Wouk (1951) [1]
Guides
- "An Official Guide to Columbia University" (1912) ed. Brander Matthews Google eBook CLIO
- "A Guide to Columbia University: With Some Account of Its History and Traditions" ed. John William Robson (1937) CLIO
- "Columbia University, College Prowler Off The Record" (2005) Google eBook
History
Columbia
- "Columbia University and Morningside Heights" (Postcard History Series) by Michael V. Susi Google eBook (limited preview)
- "Living Legacies at Columbia" ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary (2006) CLIO Amazon.com
- "Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004" by Robert A. McCaughey (2003) CLIO Amazon.com
- "My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life" ed. Ashbel Green (2004) CLIO Google eBook Amazon.com
- "From King's College to Columbia, 1746-1800" by David C. Humphrey (1976) CLIO Google eBook (limited preview)
- "Columbia Remembered" ed. Wesley First (1967) CLIO
- "Columbia: Colossus on the Hudson", by Horace Coon (1947) CLIO
- "Columbia" by Frederick Paul Keppel (1914) CLIO Google eBook (full book)
- "A History of Columbia University, 1754-1904" by Brander Matthews (1904) CLIO Google eBook (full book) Google eBook (Another Version- full book)
- "The Undergraduate Record Columbia College A Book of Statistical Information compiled by William S. Sloan" (1881) Google eBook
- "An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876" edited by John Howard Van Amringe (1876) Google Books (full book)
- "An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York by Nathaniel Fish Moore (1846) Google Books - full book
Neighborhood/Architecture
- "Morningside Heights" by Andrew S. Dolkart (2001) CLIO Google eBook (limited preview)
- "Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights" by Barry Bergdoll (1998) CLIO Amazon.com
1968 Protests
- " Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis" by Jerry L. Avorn (1968) CLIO
- "Crisis at Columbia", the Cox Commission Report on the 1968 protests (1968) CLIO
- "Six Weeks that Shook Morningside" Columbia College Today, Spring 1968 PDF
- "The Battle For Morningside Heights" by Roger Kahn (1970) CLIO
- "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary", by James S. Kunen (1970) CLIO Amazon.com
- "Confrontation on campus;: The Columbia pattern for the new protest" by Joanne Grant (1969) Amazon
Columbia University Press
- "Columbia University Press 1893-1983", by Henry H. Wiggins (1983) Google eBook (limited preview)
Social History
- "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) CLIO Google eBook (limited preview Amazon.com
School of Journalism
- "Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003" by James R. Boylan (2003) CLIO Google eBook Amazon.com
Core Curriculum
- "Great Books" by David Denby (1997) CLIO Amazon.com
- "An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College", by Timothy Cross (1995) [2]
Other
- "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York" by Vincent Cannato (2001) (chapter 7 on the 1968 protests) CLIO Google eBook (limited preview) Amazon.com
- "Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes Amazon
- The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton. (He talks about his life as an undergraduate here.)
Documentaries (video)
- "Columbia University: A Celebration" by Ric Burns (2003)