Historic articles about Berea College
- Blue Grass Music Comes to Berea CollegeReed, Roy. Special to The New York Times. "Blue Grass Music Comes to Berea College." New York Times (1923-), Oct 19, 1971, pp. 26. ProQuest, https://berea.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/historical-newspapers/blue-grass-music-comes-berea-college/docview/119251016/se-2.
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Photos from Berea's History
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Musical Performances by Bereans
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Published Primary Sources
Berea College: An Interesting History by Call Number: 378.7691 F165Title has multiple copies:
Circulating (3rd Floor); College History (2nd Floor - Reference)
SC&A - Berea and Curio
Online Version (Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Database)
Description of Berea's founding and early history written by the first College President, Edward Henry Fairchild, and published in 1875; second printing in 1883.
An Autobiography by Call Number: 378.7691 F295aTitle has multiple online versions.
Online Version I (UNC - Doc South)
Online Version II (Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Online Version III (Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice Database)
Autobiography of John G. Fee, founder of Berea College, published in 1891.
For the Mountains: An Autobiography by Call Number: 378.7691 F939fBerea College's third president, William Goodell Frost, provides an autobiographical account of his time leading the institution and his views on Berea's founding, published in 1937.
"I Never Lose Heart:" Baccalaureate Address by Call Number: 252 H974in (Locations: Circulating, College History)Publication Date: 1960Compilation of Baccalaureate Addresses given by Berea College President William J. Hutchins, title taken from address given in 1924.
