A Few Primary Sources on College Life

(Available Online)

M.F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow, Hampton and Its Students, by Two of Its Teachers (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874).

W.S. Ball, "A.E.F. University Gives Grads Degree of B.A.F.," Stars and Stripes, February 15, 1918.

E. W. Hunter, Female Education: Its Importance, the Helps and the Hindrances (Baltimore: T. N. Kurtz, 1859).

Jeannette Augustus Marks, A Girl's Student Days and After (New York: F. H. Revell, 1911).

Lida Rose McCabe, The American Girl at College (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1893).

Men and Women Medical Students (Philadelphia, 1870).

Samuel Miller, Letters from a Father to his Sons in College (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1852).

John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913).

Samuel Osgood, Student Life: Letters and Recollections for a Young Friend (New York: James Miller, 1861).

"Personal Histories," Oberlin College LGBT Community History Project

Henry Davidson Sheldon, Student Life and Customs (New York: Appleton, 1901).

Helen Ekin Starrett, After College, What? For Girls (New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1896).

John Todd, The Student's Manual (Philadelphia: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., 1859).