Archival Resources

Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick

Records of the National Union of Teachers, the National Union of Students and the British Educational Research Association (BERA) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/subject_guides/education/ Others in...

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The London School of Economics

has in the past couple of months has been posting some great sets of photos of college life, all with "no known copyright restrictions" status, ready for tagging and commenting as part of the Flickr Commons project. Among the sets of particular interest: LSE Founders...

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HathiTrust

http://www.hathitrust.org/ You can conduct a catalog search from this page, but you can also apply an LC classification visualization through the link at the bottom-right: LA - History of Education shows 1,273 items available LH - College and student magazines and...

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The “Nietz Old Textbook Collection”

a full-text collection with digital editions of 140 schoolbooks and two surveys of historic schoolbooks by John Nietz available at: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/ The collection is primarily nineteenth century textbooks however there are secondary sources and...

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Archival Sources for Historians: National/Transnational

The American Historical Association's Archiveswiki "is intended to be a clearinghouse of information about archival resources throughout the world" designed mainly for historians, although others may find it useful: http://archiveswiki.historians.org/?RefBy=FN...

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Bowling Green State University

The Center for Archival Collections established the National Student Affairs Archives in 1982. The CAC, interested in establishing special collections reflective of the University's strong graduate programs, began to acquire the historical records from several...

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Western Reserve State Historical Society

Holds the Karamu House Records; founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house...

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The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Formerly the Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls (1908 – abt. 1911) and the Oklahoma College for Women  (abt 1911. - 1965) and the Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts (1965 - 1974).  The extensive collections include dossiers on nearly every student who...

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Chatham University Archives

Housed in the Jennie King Mellon Library at Chatham University document the dynamic history of one of the earliest women’s liberal arts colleges established as a college rather than as a seminary. Chartered in 1869 as Pennsylvania Female College, Chatham remains one...

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