Documents
on the
History of Hanover College

Hanover students and faculty make available the following texts and documents on the history of Hanover College. Documents from the Duggan Library's Archive are under the copyright of Hanover College. Permission is granted to copy and use the documents for educational purposes, though not for commercial purposes. The History Department would like to thank Mr. Dennis Kovener, the late Duggan Library archivist, and Mr. Doug Denne, the current archivist. Their advice and friendly assistance helped make this project possible. More information on manuscripts in the Hanover College Archives is available here.

Nineteenth-Century Documents

The Call of Hanover Church to John Finley Crowe, 1823
Transcribed, edited, and introduced by Michael Poor, The Hanover Historical Review 5 (1997)

The Bye-Laws and Standing Rules of the Madison Presbytery, 1826
Transcribed by Heather Haralson, The Hanover Historical Texts Project

The Record of the Hanover Academy, 1828-1833
Transcribed by Heather Haralson. Edited and introduced by Michael Poor The Hanover Historical Review 5 (1997)

1830s

Inaugural Address of President James Blythe, January 1, 1833
Edited and introduced by Mark Plozay The Hanover Historical Review 5 (1997)

Alexander Kinmont, Discourse Delivered Before the Union Literary, 1836
Edited with Introduction by Jennifer L. Olszewski The Hanover Historical Review 6 (1998)

Documents Related to the Controversy Surrounding President Duncan Macaulay, 1837-1838
Edited with Introduction by Mark Plozay and James Savage The Hanover Historical Review 6 (1998)

Inaugural Address of President McAuley, March 28, 1838
Edited with Introduction by Hilary Sprinkle The Hanover Historical Review 6 (1998)

Inaugural Address of President Erasmus D. MacMaster, November 7, 1838
The Hanover Historical Texts Project

1840s

The Inaugural Address of President Sylvester Scovel, March 26, 1847
The Hanover Historical Texts Project

1850s

Sarah Butler Hendricks, prose and poetry, c. 1854.

Hendricks family letters, 1856-1859

1860s

Excerpt from "The Civil War Came to Campus," by I. George Blake
Edited with Introduction by Mark A. Plozay

Address by John H. Holliday delivered at the 23rd Annual Spring Exhibition of the Philathean Society of Hanover College on March 25, 1863
Transcribed, edited, and introduced by Mark A. Plozay The Hanover Historical Review 7 (1999)

Adkinson family letters, 1863-1864

Julia Eddy letters, 1864-1868

Twentieth-Century Documents

1970s

Hanover College Triangle, reports on antiwar protest, 1970.

John Finley Crowe

James Blythe

Austgen, Suzanne M., "A History of Literary Societies at Hanover College" Hanover Historical Review 2 (1994)

Millis, William A., The History of Hanover College from 1827 to 1927 (Hanover, IN: Hanover College, 1927)

Moore, A. Y., History of Hanover College (Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press, 1900).