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A collection of historic newspapers from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
A selection of digitized eighteenth-century newspapers from the historic newspaper collection at the Bentley Rare Book Museum.
A selection of digitized newspapers from the historic newspaper collection at the Bentley Rare Book Museum.
Culinary Memory (2017) is an exhibit that explores the history of food writing through rare books.
This collection contains a collection of documents that accompany the Culinary Memory exhibit experience.
Curated resources for courses taught at Kennesaw State University.
A collection of digitized resources for Dr. Yoshina Hurgobin's HIST 3373 course Modern India and South Asia
A selection of digitized manuscript leaves and book excerpts demonstrating the development of the written and printed word in the late medieval period and the early modern era in the West.
A selection of digitized excerpts from the works of British sports writer Pierce Egan. These excerpts are featured in the Bentley Rare Book Museum's digital module on Pierce Egan.
A selection of digitized excerpts from eight editions of Nella Larsen's "Passing" published between 1985 and 2004.
This collection contains documents that demonstrate the thirty-year history of the Bentley Rare Book Gallery prior to its transformation into the Bentley Rare Book Museum.
A small collection of "The Liberator" Magazine from the 1920s.
Collecting Stories: 35 Years of the Bentley Rare Book Museum (2021) pays homage to the journey of acquiring books that is often forgotten or overlooked.
Culinary Memory (2017) is an exhibit that explores the history of food writing through rare books.
Online digital exhibit and related resources created by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education and archived in 2020.
Online digital exhibit and related resources created by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education and archived in 2020.
In Formation: Women’s Voices in Print, Genre, and Form (2022) celebrates the role of women in print by surveying the Bentley Rare Book Museum’s rich holdings of historic books and manuscripts produced in the English-speaking world.
This exhibit explores illustration styles and techniques, intriguing formats, and the interplay of text and images on the printed page within children's books.
This exhibition explores the cultural and literary tension of the 1920s.
The Books That Taught Us (2023) is an exhibit that uses a collection of rare and historic textbooks printed in the Western world between the eighteenth century and the twentieth century to explore the layered history of instructional texts in the English-speaking world.
This exhibit documents the unique histories of KSU and SPSU until their consolidation in 2015.
Audio recordings of concerts presented by the Kennesaw State University School of Music.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Fall 2019 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Fall 2020 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Fall 2021 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Fall 2022 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Spring 2020 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Spring 2021 season.
Audio recordings and other related materials of performances presented by the KSU School of Music during the Spring 2022 season.
Records created by the Administrators Council.
Concerns the mission, purpose and governance of the Council.
Materials relating to KSU and the experiences of the KSU community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A project of the KSU Archives to document experiences of the KSU community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2D designs created by ART 1100 students inspired by Orphism and the coronavirus collected by Donna Colebeck, Senior Lecturer of Studio Art.
Reflections of ENGL 2120 students on course readings in the context of COVID-19 collected by Dr. Mary Behrman, Senior Lecturer of English.
Reflections of ENGL 1102 students on the impact of COVID-19 on our vocabulary collected by Dr. Mary Behrman, Senior Lecturer of English.
Oral histories conducted by staff of the Kennesaw State University Archives and Special Collections to document the history of underrepresented communities in north and northwest Georgia.
Oral history interviews on the city of Kennesaw, Georgia.
Interviews documenting the experiences of members of the LGBTQ community of Cobb County, Georgia and surrounding counties.
This sub-community contains records created by and related to the Kennesaw State University Department of Athletics.
This collection contains media guides created by the Kennesaw's department of Athletics.
The official podcast of Kennesaw State Athletics.
Collection of Handbooks for members of the KSU Community.
This sub-community contains various digitized and born-digital materials documenting the history of Kennesaw State University.
Digitized course catalogs for Kennesaw State University from 1966 to 2009.
KSU graduate catalogs from 1985-2009
KSU undergraduate catalogs from 1966-2009
This collection contains various images and other records that document the history and growth of the KSU campus.
This collection contains public history resources, including timelines and exhibition materials, documenting KSU's history.
This collection contains biographical information and select archival records documenting the administration of Dr. Betty L. Siegel - the second president of Kennesaw State University.
This collection contains biographical information and select archival records documenting the administration of Dr. Horace W. Sturgis - the first president of Kennesaw State University.
Spreadsheets of historical Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University degrees, majors, certificates, and minors.
This collection contains material published by and about Kennesaw State University.
Records pertaining to the activities of the department of Museums, Archives, Rare Books and Records and Information Management.
Images and other materials regarding the history of the African American experience in Acworth, Georgia and collected in 2020.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Beverly Griffin Patton.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Cedric Jackson.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Charlie Mae Henderson Griffin.
Materials contributed for digitization by former Acworth, Georgia resident Clarence Eugene Hill II.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia residents Claude Johnson and Willie Mae Brown Johnson.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Deborah Hill Bennett.
Materials contributed for digitization by former Acworth, Georgia resident Denise Gragg Reid.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Glenda Wise Perkinson.
Materials contributed for digitization by former Acworth, Georgia resident Helen Harden Hill.
Materials contributed for digitization by former Acworth, Georgia resident Jill Gragg Gresham.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Lawrence Timothy Houston.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Marcia Griffin Beasley.
Materials contributed for digitization by former Acworth, Georgia resident Selena Gragg Griggs.
Materials contributed for digitization by Acworth, Georgia resident Shirley Bedford Jackson.
Records pertaining to the archived online exhibits.
Online digital exhibit and related resources created by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education and archived in 2020.
Online digital exhibit and related resources created by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education and archived in 2020.
Oral history interviews, images, and other materials developed in a partnership between the Kennesaw State University Department of Museums, Archives and Rare Books (MARB) and the Tate Stewardship Committee (Pickens County, Georgia Commission) starting in 2021
Related materials of Northwest Georgia historian
Oral history interview and related materials of Pickens County resident
Oral history interview and related materials of Pickens County resident
Oral history interview and related materials of Pickens County resident
Oral history interview and related materials of Pickens County resident
Oral history interviews, images, and other materials regarding the history of the Lemon Street Schools in Marietta, Georgia and collected in 2020.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta local Anthony Coleman.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta natives Barbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head.
Related materials of Marietta native Betty Myers.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta local Brenda Russaw McCrae.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta native Cheryl Long.
Oral history interview of Marietta natives Clara Bates Wingfield and Charles Wingfield, Jr.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta local Dorothy Christian Johnson.
Oral history interview and related materials of Georgia State Senator Dr. Michael Rhett.
Oral history interview of Marietta native Frances Juanita Carter
Oral history interview and related materials of Cobb County local James Dodd, Jr.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta City Schools System educator and board member Jeanie Martin Carter.
Oral history interview and related materials of Cobb County local and retired Marietta City Schools System educator Jennie Hill Gresham.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta local and Navy veteran Lorenzo Woods.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta local Pearl Riley Freeman.
Oral history interview and related materials of former Lemon Street High School principal Sullivan Ruff, Jr.
Oral history interview and related materials of Cobb County native Tommie Hill Davis.
Oral history interview and related materials of Marietta native William Adams.
Oral history interviews about the history of the city of Adairsville, Georgia.
Oral history interview of Karl Von Hagel
Oral history interview and other materials related to pilot Larry Brantley Thompson.
Records pertaining to the development and mounting of exhibits.
Oral history interviews pertaining to WWII, the Holocaust, and immigration experiences, produced by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education.
Oral history interview of Robert Brown
Digitized photographs, newspaper articles, letters, books, and postcards documenting the history of the Tate family, community, and Georgia Marble Company.
Oral histories conducted and/or supervised by Dr. Thomas Scott, Professor Emeritus of History, on the development of Kennesaw State University and the local community.
The Cobb County Oral History Series was conducted by Thomas Scott, Professor of History at Kennesaw State University, and others, of prominent citizens of Cobb County, Georgia. The series was started in 1978 and interviews are still being conducted. The interviewees were people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Fulton counties.
The Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series consists of forty-one oral history interviews done with a variety of people across Cobb County. The purpose of the project is to collect personal experiences of people with the Cobb County Branch and its predecessor, the Marietta Branch, of the NAACP, as well as the Civil Rights movement in Cobb County, Georgia.
The Kennesaw College Oral History Series consists of interviews conducted with people of various backgrounds from Cobb, Paulding, Bartow, Gordon, and Fulton Counties from 1978 to 1985.
The Kennesaw State University oral history series is a project conducted in collaboration with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), and the College of the Humanities and Social Sciences to collect oral histories from all past recipients of the KSU Distinguished Professor, Teaching, Scholarship and Service Awards.
The North Georgia Oral History Series was conducted by Dr. Thomas Scott, Professor of History at Kennesaw State University and others, of prominent citizens living in the northwest Georgia region.
The Southern Polytechnic State University Series documents the history of the institution from the perspective of its administration, faculty, staff, and students.
Student life at KSU.
Greek life at KSU.
Images of t-shirts and other school spirit clothing representing both KSU and SPSU.
Oral history interviews with members of the Atlanta Student Movement that took place in the 1960s.
Oral histories, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center.
The Kennesaw Junior College Foundation (now the Kennesaw State University Foundation) was formally incorporated in 1969 with a 23-member board of trustees, and held its first organizational meeting in April 17, 1969, with temporary Chair Robert T. Garrison presiding.
KSU Lifestyle is a monthly publication by Kennesaw State University Student Media that engages in conversations to build student engagement as part of the university community. The title replaces both Talon Magazine and The Sting.
Past KSU News Releases dating back to 2000
Digital versions of KSU yearbooks, 1967-1995.
The KSU/SPSU History Collection is a growing collection of digital materials that document the history of Kennesaw State University from 1963 to the present, including the 2015 consolidation with the former Southern Polytechnic State University. Items within this collection come from holdings within the Kennesaw State University Archives.
Share is a literary and art magazine produced by students as part of Kennesaw State Student Media. It features works by students, staff, and faculty.
Materials surrounding a photograph of KJC sophomore Stella Merritt sitting on campus which was picked up by the Associated Press and published in various newspapers in May of 1970.
Oral histories pertaining to the African American experience
Oral histories pertaining to the topic of aviation
Oral histories pertaining to KSU and SPSU
Oral histories pertaining to the LGBTQ experience
Oral histories pertaining to history of North and Northwest Georgia.
Oral histories pertaining to the topic of World War II
This sub-community contains a variety of archival collections that document the history of Southern Polytechnic State University.
This collection contains documents and photographs that document the physical development of Southern Polytechnic State University.
Annual reports of Southern Polytechnic State University produced by the chief administrative officer
This collection contains videos that document the history of Southern Polytechnic State University.
An annual family event for the public for technology oriented demonstrations, exhibits, hands-on games and graphics.
A history of Southern Polytechnic State University written in 1998 by Richard A. Bennett, former professor and Director of International Programs at SPSU.
A selection of digitized and born-digital SPSU undergraduate and graduate catalog ranging from 1948 to 2011
Publication of the SPSU Department of Public Relations
Digital versions of SPSU yearbooks
The materials in the collection span from 1948 to 2016, and document Bobbie Bailey's vast career and achievements, including materials from her company Our-Way, Inc., the Greenland Expedition Society, her music-related accomplishments, Kennesaw State University, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, DeKalb Medical, UNICEF, and others.
Materials related to Bobbie Bailey's music accomplishments and endeavors.
Our-Way, Inc. was a remanufacturer of air-conditioning and refrigeration compressors. Bobbie Bailey served as CEO and sole owner of the company for over 50 years.
Hugh Gordon assembled the collection over a period of years as the resource for a book project. As part of the donor agreement with the Archives, Gordon requested that the collection be named for himself, J. Joseph Kruse, and Fred R. Wentzel. It consists of ten series, which represent accessions from different sources.
The Hugh L. Gordon Papers range from 1951 to 2009, with the bulk dating from 1966 to 1989. The majority of the documents were created by Gordon during the course of his duties as Director of Personnel at Lockheed-Georgia (GELAC), as well as Regional Executive for Region 4 of the National Alliance of Businessmen (NAB) and leadership positions with the Private Industry Council of Atlanta, Inc. (PIC) and the Atlanta Employer’s Voluntary Merit Employment Association (AEVMEA). In addition, the Gordon Papers include material generated as part of the creation of the collection.
Architectural and technical drawings from Gregson and Ellis, architects based in Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940s-1970s.
The Save Acworth History Foundation Collection contains digital images and video histories depicting the history of life in the city of Acworth, Georgia.
Historical images depicting life in the city of Acworth, Georgia.
The Atkinson-Floyd Papers contain documents related to the history and genealogy of the Atkinson and Floyd families of Camden County and Marietta (Cobb County). Select documents have been digitized here. The full collection is housed at the Kennesaw State University Archives.
This collection contains images from the Bell Bomber plant in Marietta during WWII.
This collection contains a sampling of digitized photographs and documents from the Blair Family Papers, 1914 - 1950.
Collection of oral history video clips produced for the Marietta 175th Anniversary Website
The digitized book, an account of the history of Cobb County, Georgia in the 20th century, written by KSU professor emeritus Dr. Thomas A. Scott and published in 2003.
This collection contains digital copies of yearbooks published by the Confederate Soldier's Home of Georgia during the 1920s. Physical copies of these yearbooks (both original and facsimile) are housed in the KSU Archives.
Collection of personal papers and memorabilia documenting the life and work of Deane T. Bonner
A sampling of the approximately 1,500 maps in the collection showing land surveys conducted in northwest Georgia between 1970 to 1992.
Digital collection of materials about the Mable House provided by Friends of the Mable House
This collection contains select business records, publications, and audiovisual material that have been digitized from the Georgia Marble Company Records. The full collection is housed at the Kennesaw State University Archives.
A digital scan of the unpublished manuscript, Don't stand behind the fan (Jet that is) written by Henry Leo (Hap) Hudson Sr.
Documents relating to the life and work of Hugh L. Grogan, select documents have been digitized here.
Digital image collection documenting the contract work of Lockheed Aircraft Company in the 1950s.
A collection of materials accumulated by Jon C. Greaves, an activist in the LGBT community in Cobb County and Atlanta, Georgia, that documents his interest in gay and lesbian civil rights, women's reproductive rights, and hate crimes. Mr. Greaves was a founding member of the Cobb Citizens Coalition, a group formed to protest the Cobb County Board of Commissioner's resolutions regarding community standards and arts funding in 1993.
A short-lived publication distributed monthly from 1978 to 1980, detailing local events and people.
Photographs and a calendar documenting Marietta's African American community during the mid-twentieth century.
Oral history interviews with Mableton, Georgia residents conducted for the Mable House.
The Marietta Housing Authority (MHA) was created by the Mayor and Council of Marietta, Georgia on May 9, 1938, with the first meeting of the MHA Board of Commissioners taking place in June 30, 1938. The Marietta Housing Authority Records date from circa 1938 to 2011, and consist of materials related to the operation and administration of the Marietta Housing Authority. Included are administrative/general files, including MHA meetings from 1938-2011, printed materials, records of the Acworth Housing Authority (which became part of the MHA in January 29, 2009), and files documenting various public housing projects, including topics of asbestos and lead-based paint abatement and analysis, management, demolition, bids and contracts, renovations, unit inspections, business and financial matters, and others. Materials include meeting minutes (including the minutes of the first meeting held by the MHA), letters, technical drawings, clippings, project manuals, annual reports, appraisal records, publications, photographic prints, slides, negatives, floppy disks, and other items.
These items represent a selection of digitized materials from the Marion Thomas Collection. The full, paper-based collection is housed at the Kennesaw State University Archives.
This collection contains select items from the NAACP Cobb County Branch Records, which are housed at the Kennesaw State University Archives. The bulk of these records document the history of the NAACP Cobb County Branch since its reorganization in 1982.
Two engineering drawings related to the Apollo Space project
Materials related to the official opening of I-75
The collection consists of a small selection of digitized items from the Robert deTreville Lawrence III Papers, 1730-1991, housed at the Kennesaw State University Archives.
This collection contains organizational records of the Southern Graphics Council International from 1973 until 2012.
A significant resource for the LGBT community in the Southeast from 1988 to 1995, providing in-depth information on topics such as the fight against AIDS, marriage equality, legal issues, workplace discrimination, and violence against gay individuals.
Theatre in the Square was founded in 1982 by Michael Horne and Palmer Wells, and was located in historic downtown Marietta, Georgia.
A collection of digitized photographs documenting Zion Baptist Church's transition into a new sanctuary during the 1977-1978 year.