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General Overviews of General College History

General Overviews of Berea College History

Berea College : An Illustrated History by Wilson, Shannon H.
Call Number: 378.769 W753b 2006

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Using primary sources, recent scholarship, and photographs, Shannon H. Wilson charts the history and development of Berea from its founding through the administration of each College President.

Berea's First 125 Years, 1855-1980 by Peck, Elisabeth S.
Call Number: 378.7691 P366b 1982

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A general history of Berea College.
Building A College: An Architectural History of Berea College by Boyce, Robert Piper
Call Number: 727.3 B789b 2006

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Detailed descriptions of the past and extant Berea College buildings, with an introductory chapter on the design and planning of the campus environs.

Theses and Dissertations

Philanthropists and politicians : a sociological profile of Berea College, 1855-1908 by Burnside, Jacqueline Grisby
Call Number: 378.7691 B967p

SC&A - Berea
"Not at the top, but climbing": Teaching and Learning about Appalachia and Identity at Berea College, 1920-1940 by Hayslette, Sandra Diane
Call Number: 378.154 H425n (Location: Special Collections - Mountain)

Publication Date: 2002

Thesis (Ph.D.)
Organizational culture and leadership at Berea College : an historical inquiry into saga development and underlying cultural assumptions by Wood, Gerald E
Call Number: 378.7691 W875o

SC&A - Berea
From Race to Region: Shifting Priorities at Berea College under President William Goodell Frost, 1892-1912 by Krehbiel, Lee E
Call Number: 378.7691 K92f

SC&A - Berea
Piety, Politics, and Pedagogy: An Evangelical Protestant Tradition in Higher Education at Lane, Oberlin, and Berea, 1834-1904 by Warford, Malcolm
Call Number: 378.04 W274p
The American Missionary Association's Antislavery Campaign in Kentucky, 1848-1860 by Reynolds, Todd A.
Call Number: 326.0976 R465a
John G. Fee: Kentucky Spokesman for Abolition and Educational Reform by English, Philip W.
Call Number: 976.904 F295zen
A History of Berea College
Call Number: 378.7691 D961

Publication Date: 1942

Thesis (M.A. in Education)--University of Kentucky written by James G. Durham.
"William Morris and the Appalachian Craft Revival at Berea College"
Call Number: 378.7691 B689w (Location: Special Collections - Berea)

Delivered to the William Morris Society Centenary Conference, 28 June, 1996, Exeter College, Oxford University by Berea Professor John S. Bolin. Unpublished manuscript.
The Berean Way: Interracial Education in Kentucky, 1855-1904 by Arthur, James Milton
Call Number: 378.7691 A788b

More Books on People and Academic Departments

One Apostle was a Lumberman : John G. Hanson and Berea’s Founding Generation by Drake, Richard B.
Call Number: 378.7691 D762o

Title has multiple copies:
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Berea Hospital: The First Century, 1898-1998 by Barker, Garry
Call Number: 362.11 B255b
Nurses in Time : Developments in Nursing Education, 1898-1981 by Peck, Elisabeth S.; final chapter by Martha W. Pride
Call Number: 610.73 P366n 1982
John B. Stephenson, Appalachian Humanist : An Anthology by Ford, Thomas R., ed; with a biographical sketch by J. Randolph Osborne
Call Number: 378.009 S847zf
Six Berea College Presidents: Tradition and Progress by Hughes, Jerome W.
Call Number: 378.7691 H893s
Berea College: Spiritual and Intellectual Roots by Brown, Dale
Call Number: 378.7691 B877b
Full-length plays produced at Berea College, 1892 to 2006 : a list including directors, designers, theatres and performance dates by Bolin, John S.
Call Number: 792 B689f 2006
The Music Program of Berea College (Kentucky) and the Folk-music Heritage of Appalachia by John Melville Forbes
Call Number: 780.72 F693m

Journal Articles and Essays

“Berea’s Appalachian Commitment"
by Richard B. Drake
Appalachian Heritage
Volume 26, no 3 (1998): 6-21.
"Berea College: A Commitment to Interracial Education Within a Christian Context"
by Andrew Baskin
In D. John Lee, ed., Ethnic Minorities and Evangelical Christian Colleges
Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1991.
"Berea College: A Rock in the Stream"
by Rudy Abramson
Smithsonian
Volume 24 (1993): 92- 104
"Berea College and the Day Law"
by Richard Allen Heckman and Betty Jean Hall
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 66 (1968): 35-52 (available in JSTOR)
"Berea College and the Founding of Lincoln Institute"
by Andrew Baskin
chapter in History of Education in Southern Appalachia, ed. John L. Bell. Cullowhee, NC: Western Carolina UP, 1990.
"Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s: Student Life at a Racially Integrated Kentucky College"
by Marion Lucas
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 98 (2000): 1-22
"The Black South and White Appalachia"
by James C. Klotter
Journal of American History
Vol. 66, No. 4 (March 1980): 832-849
"Eleanor Marsh Frost and the Gender Dimensions of Appalachian Reform Efforts"
by Deborah L. Blackwell
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 94 (1996): 225-246
"Experiment in Interracial Education at Berea College, 1858-1908"
by Paul David Nelson
Journal of Negro History
Volume 59, No. 1 (Jan 1974): 13-27
"The Founding of Lincoln Institute"
by George C. Wright
Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume 49 (1975), p57-70
"Images of Classlessness and Berea College"
by Bill Horton
Appalachian Journal
Volume 11 (1983-84): 58-66
"John G. Fee, Camp Nelson, and Kentucky Blacks, 1864-1865"
by Richard Sears
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 85 (1987): 29-45
"Night Comes to Berea College: The Day Law and the African-American Reaction"
by Scott Blakeman
Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume 70 (1996): 3-26
"Project Torchlight: Thirty Years Later"
by Bill Best
Appalachian Heritage
Volume 25, No. 3 (1997): 7-16
"Racial Integration at Berea College,1950-52"
by Ralph T. Hans
Journal of Negro Education
Volume 22, No. 1 (Winter 1953): 26-37
"The Roller-Coaster Ride of Black Students at Berea College"
Unattributed
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
No. 13 (Autumn 1996): 62-64
" 'Sergeant York is the Berea Kind': The Great War and Berea College, 1917-1918"
by Shannon H. Wilson
Appalachian Heritage
Volume 27 (1999): 6-17.
" 'She Made a Tradition:' Katherine S. Bowersox and Women at Berea College, 1907-1937"
by Carolyn Terry Bashaw
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 89 (1991): 61-84
"Suspicion Versus Faith: Negro Criticisms of Berea College in the Nineteenth Century"
by Jacqueline G. Burnside
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume 83 (1985): 237-266.
"Window on the Mountains: Berea's Appalachia, 1870-1930"
by Shannon H. Wilson
Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume 64 (1990): 384-400