"To Make More Useful:" The Impact of Home Economics Education and Outreach on Domestic Storage Improvements

Architectural historian Mary Anne Beecher explores the historic development and design implications of storage elements in the 19th and 20th century American home, reflecting on the influence that…

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A College of Home Economics

Created in 1948. Film discusses all aspects of Cornell's School of Home Economics, now Human Ecology. It features footage from campus, including classroom and lab settings, and mentions many of…

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A Growing College, redux: When Home Economics Became Human Ecology

In 1969, after 5 years of deliberation and planning, Cornell's College of Home Economics became the College of Human Ecology. Gwen Kay, Associate Professor of History at SUNY Oswego and 2008…

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A. D. White on Beauty

Andrew Dickson White believed that the built environment of a university should reflect high standards of beauty and good aesthetics. In this Reunion 2010 lecture at Mann Library, historian Carol…

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A.D. White Library - Uris Library Historical Tour

Historical tour of the Andrew Dickson White Library, ca. 1900, built to house the extensive book collection of Cornell's first president. The A.D. White Library is a large, three-story room…

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Aaron Sachs reading passage from Arcadian America

Cornell Prof. Aaron Sachs reads from his new book, Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

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Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life

Security is often sought through armaments and containment, which can lead to the impoverishment rather than the nourishment of laboring bodies. Under increasingly precarious conditions, governments…

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Adam Levine: American Insecurity

Many Americans feel their financial well-being is under threat by factors such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. Yet few of us are motivated to…

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Alumni Management Library 2018.mp4

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American Vernacular: Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960

In their newest book, Herbert Gottfried (Dept. of Landscape Architecture) and Jan Jennings (Dept. of Design and Environmental Analysis) trace the contributions of folk vernacular architecture to…

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Anatole and Svetlana Katok Interview October 29 & 31, 1999

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Anatole and Svetlana Katok Interview October 29 & 31, 1999

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Anindita Banerjee reading We Modern People

Cornell Prof. Anindita Banerjee reads passage from her new book, "We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity" (ISBN: 9780819573339)

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Anthony McNicoll Interview

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Anthony McNicoll Interview

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Arrival of the Tank America to campus, ROTC, and demolition of a chimney

"Footage of the arrival the World War I era tank dubbed the America to what was then the Drill Hall, now Barton Hall, on the Cornell campus, April 16, 1926. The tank is seen driving up through…

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