In their own words
They wrote it down.
Programmes, charters, annual reports, minutes, and letters to funders: the people who set out to change American institutions described what they were doing, in print, at the time, and often in the institutions' own publications. This archive collects those statements in the documents where they were made, and holds each one to exactly what it establishes and no further. A record of what somebody said about themselves is filed as evidence that they said it, never as evidence that it was true.
Institute for Social Research reported under auspices of Columbia University.
- Reference
- REL-000063
- Date
- 1934-1944-Sun Dec 31 1944 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Tier
- documented · the source states it
- Register
- Self-description · their own report about themselves
- Witnesses
- Source: Ten Years on Morningside Heights Public Transcription, 2025
- Source: Columbia President's Annual Report, 1934
What this does not prove
Auspices and housing do not establish merger, departmental incorporation, or governance.
- Open record pages
- 702
- Public connections
- 588
- Open series
- 1
- Public connection dates
- 1889-2025
Connections count graph edges; the register counts records with a page; the Relationship claim register counts authored accounts.
Arrangement
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Series I: The American Landing 1922-1944
The Institute for Social Research leaves Frankfurt and arrives at Morningside Heights. What its own records establish about the arrangement with Columbia, and the point at which they stop.
Series holdings 7 authored connection accounts The authored journey opens 7 connection accounts.
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Series II: Gramsci in American Print 1957-1972
Translation, publication, and reception in the American New Left.
Series holdings In the archive; extent not yet stated Restricted Records held. No journey authored over them, so none is served.
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Series III: Theory into Action 1964-1969
Marcuse, the New Left, and the documented limits of words and ideas.
Series holdings In the archive; extent not yet stated Restricted Records held. No journey authored over them, so none is served.
Chronology
Public connections 1889-2025
Public connection dates run from 1889 to 2025. The measure continues to 2030 as the archive's stated scope.
Recent
Processing note
Claims in this collection carry one of three tiers, and the tier is part of the claim rather than a badge on it.
Tier review is in progress, with reclassification queued.
- documented
- the source states it
- reported
- a source reports it at second hand
- assessed
- the archive judges it, and says so
A statement a subject makes about itself is recorded as documented evidence that the statement was made, never as evidence that it was true. Where a source stops, the entry stops, and the stopping point is written down as its own sentence rather than left for a reader to infer.
Read live through the public projections: the specimen, the complete archive graph, the Series I authored-account count, accessions, the open record-page count, the public connection count, the public connection date range. The open-series count comes from the authored arrangement.