CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Oral History Interview with Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein of Borough of Manhattan Community College

This oral history interview with retired Borough of Manhattan Community College professors Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein was conducted at the CUNY Graduate Center on June 1, 2015. Friedheim and Perlstein were intimately involved in many of the [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College
Free University Week - 1st Annual May Day Course Descriptions

This pamphlet features workshops, teach-ins and events planned for the 1st annual Free University of New York City on May 1, 2012, in Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NY. In addition to talks by David Harvey, David Graeber, Francis Fox Piven, Chris [...]

Item Type: Text (Curricular Material)
Time Period: 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Austerity, Diversity, Gender, Immigration, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Chris Hedges, David Graeber, David Harvey, Francis Fox Piven, Free University of New York City, Graduate Center General Assembly, May Day, Occupy CUNY, Student Activism
Student Voices: Brooklyn College Oral Histories on WW2 and the McCarthy Era — Civil Liberties 

This website was a 2004 collaboration between the American Social History Project and Brooklyn College. Redesigned in 2015 it chronicles student experiences with the college newspaper, the Vanguard, during a period in which civil liberties were [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1946-1960 Municipal College Expansion
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Gender, Labor Unions, Politics, Student Organizations
Tags: Brooklyn College, McCarthyism, Student Newspapers / Journals

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