Berea College: An Illustrated History

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The reader can find works cited in individual chapters in the endnotes to each chapter. Though by no means exhaustive, the following bibliography provides an outline for further research. All records and manuscript materials are in the Berea College Archives unless otherwise noted. GENERAL Primary Sources Printed Materials Berea College Catalogue, 1867– . Berea Evangelist, 1884–87. Berea College Reporter, 1885–99. President’s Annual Reports, 1892– . Berea Quarterly, 1895–1916. Berea Citizen, 1899– . Historical Register of the Officers and Students of Berea College, 1904, 1916. Pinnacle (student newspaper), 1922–38; 1954– . Historical Documents: Constitution and By-Laws, 1855–1929. Berea Alumnus (now Berea College Magazine), 1931– . Wallpaper (student newspaper), 1940–54. Records Constitution and By-Laws of Berea College, 1859. Foundations, 1900 (includes constitutional changes to 1899). Constitution and Statutes (as revised and amended), 1911. Constitution and Statutes, 1855–1917. Board of Trustees Records, 1858–59; 1865– , Record Group (hereafter RG) 2. Office of Information (Development) Records, especially publications about Berea College, 1870– , RG 5.23. College Faculty Records, 1866– , RG 6.01. General Faculty Records, 1911– , RG 5.01. Student Manuals, 1867–1936, RG 12.15. Secondary Sources Abramson, Rudy. “Berea College: A Rock in the Stream.” Smithsonian 24 (1993): 92–104. Baskin, Andrew. “Berea College: A Commitment to Interracial Education within a Christian Context.” In Ethnic Minorities and Evangelical Christian Colleges, ed. D. John Lee. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1991. Brown, Dale. Berea College: Spiritual and Intellectual Roots. Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press, 1982. Crandall, Mace. Chosen Jeopardy: A Survey of Issues in the History of Union Church, Berea, Kentucky. N.p., 1978. Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. ———. One in Spirit: The Liberal Evangelical Witness of Union Church, Berea, Kentucky, 1853–2003. Berea, Ky.: Church of Christ, Union, 2003. Durham, James G. “A History of Berea College.” Master’s thesis, University of Kentucky, 1942. Fairchild, J. H. Oberlin: The Colony and the College, 1833–1883. Oberlin, Ohio: E. J. Goodrich, 1883. Fletcher, Robert Samuel. A History of Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College Press, 1943. Harrison, Lowell. “Berea: An Experiment in Education.” American History Illustrated 15 (1981): 8–17. Horton, Bill. “Images of Classlessness and Berea College.” Appalachian Journal 11 (1983–84): 58–66. Hughes, Jerome W. Six Berea College Presidents: Tradition and Progress. Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press, 1984. Lucas, Christopher J. American Higher Education: A History. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. Lucas, Marion, and George C. Wright. A History of Blacks in Kentucky. 2 vols. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1992. McPherson, James M. The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Peck, Elisabeth S. Berea’s First Century, 1855–1955. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1955. Peck, Elisabeth S., and Emily Ann Smith. Berea’s First 125 Years, 1855–1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Rudolph, Frederick. The American College and University: A History. New York: Vintage Books, 1962. ———. Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study since 1636. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1978. Sears, Richard. Berea Connections. N.p., 1996. Women in Berea’s History: A Symposium for Women’s History Week. N.p.: n.p., 1985. JOHN G. FEE AND THE FOUNDING OF BEREA COLLEGE (1855–69) Primary Sources Founders and Founding Collection, RG 1.01. John G. Fee Papers, RG 1.02. J. A. R. and Elizabeth Rogers Papers, RG 1.03. Other Founders, including George Candee, John Hanson, 237 Select Bibliography William E. Lincoln, Otis Waters, RG 1.04–1.13. Angus A. Burleigh Papers, RG 8, Students. Union Church Records, Accession 1, Historical Collections, Berea College. Fee, John G. Autobiography of John G. Fee. Chicago: National Christian Association, 1891. ———. Sinfulness of Slaveholding. New York: John A. Gray, 1851. Rogers, John A. R. Birth of Berea College: A Story of Providence. Philadelphia : Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. Secondary Sources Arthur, James Milton. “The Berean Way: Interracial Education in Kentucky, 1855–1904.” Master’s thesis, University of South Carolina, 1990. Drake, Richard B. One Apostle Was a Lumberman: John G. Hanson and Berea’s Founding Generation. Berea, Ky.: Berea College Press, 1975. English, Philip W. “John G. Fee: Kentucky Spokesman for Abolition and Educational Reform.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1973. Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Campus Life: Undergraduate Culture from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Howard, Victor B. The Evangelical War against Slavery and Caste: The Life and Times of John G...