Requests for archive documents can be made during regular library hours only.

Phone: (309) 457-2190

Fax: (309) 457-2226

E-Mail: stacy@monm.edu

 

 

 

 





 

The Monmouth College Archives

Subject Guides           How to Donate
  To see  our holdings, start here with the Archive Register--this is the link to search our holdings by topic.  Once you open this link, you can search using the "find" function on your computer.
 
  • Individual information for certain people/places/events:
  • Papers of Lewis L. Gould

    Gould is a distinguished political historian who donated documents and copies of documents to Monmouth College so that undergraduates here could use these important papers as sources for research papers.  The Gould Papers are not connected to the history of Monmouth College; instead their topics range widely across U.S. history.  Click on the link above for a folder list.  Monmouth College continues to be grateful for Dr. Gould's generosity.

 

The Monmouth College Archives began as the Monmouthiana Collection, essentially a place to put yearbooks, the College newspapers, alumni publications, old pictures, letters, materials relating to the fraternities and sororities, the literary societies, and other interesting materials connected to the College. This was properly organized in the early 1970s by Alice Martin, who began to clip information relating to all College activities and to organize files. That work was disrupted for several years when the computer center needed the basement space. Therefore, it was not until the Beveridge family made a generous donation for the construction of a storage/work room and a rare books/meeting room that a proper archive was created on the top floor of the Hewes Library. The Monmouth College Archive and the Rare Book Room were renovated in 2001-2002.  Today, the Archives are staffed by work-study students and by students in the History Department's Archives courses, overseen by Dr. Stacy A. Cordery, of the history department.