Reading Suggestions - College History

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• Background - women's colleges and education
• Histories
• Founding
• Presidents
• Campus
• Student Life
• Miscellaneous

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges From Their Nineteeth-Century Beginnings to the 1930's. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Pages 69-81, 147-197, and 213-217 deal specifically with Smith.

Newcomer, Mabel. A Century of Higher Education for Women. Washington, DC: Zenger, 1959.

Solomon, Barbara Miller. In The Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States, vol. 1 and 2. New York: The Science Press, 1929.

Seelye, L. Clark. The Early History of Smith College, 1871-1910. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923.

Gardiner, Harry Norman, and William Allan Neilson. "Smith College: The First Seventy-Five Years." Incomplete typescript, 1946.

Mendenhall, Thomas C. "Chance and Change in Smith College's First Century." Northampton: Engel Lecture, Smith College, 1976.

Davis, Gladys Wookey. Miss Sophia's Legacy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950.

Greene, Helen French. Foreshadowings of Smith College: Selections From the Letters of Louisa Dickinson to John Morton Greene, 1856-1857. Privately printed, 1928.

Hanscom, Elizabeth Deering, and Helen French Greene. Sophia Smith and the Beginnings of Smith College. Northampton: Smith College, 1925.

Rhees, Harriet Seelye. Laurenus Clark Seelye: First President of Smith College. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1929.

Thorp, Margaret Farrand. Neilson of Smith. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.

Historical Handbook of Smith College. Northampton: Smith College, 1932. Illustrated historical guide to the campus.

Lincoln, Eleanor Terry, and John Abel Pinto. This House We Live In: The Smith College Campus from 1871-1982. Northampton: Smith College, 1983.

Clarke, Elizabeth Lawrence. "Student Life." In The Early History of Smith College, 1871-1910, by L. Clark Seelye. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923.

Morgan, Constance Morrow. A Distant Moment: The Youth, Education, and Courtship of Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. Northampton: Smith College, 1977.

"Annual Report of the President to the Board of Trustees," 1875-present.

Jordan, Mary Augusta. "The Teaching of English in Smith College from President and Professor Seelye to President and Professor Neilson." Incomplete typescript, 1925. View of the college through the eyes of an early faculty member.

Lincoln, Eleanor Terry. Through the Grecourt Gates: Distinguished Visitors to Smith College, 1875-1975. Northampton: Smith College, 1978.

Van Voris, Jacqueline. College: A Smith Mosaic. Northampton: Smith College, 1975.

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