Special Collections & University Archives
The Department of Special Collections and University Archives selectively digitizes materials under its care, both to provide broader access for researchers and to help preserve fragile originals from continued handling, and increasingly, it receives materials that are were created in digital formats.
Credo, SCUA’s new online digital repository, is now publicly available as a beta site. Still under active development, Credo will eventually contain all permanent digital collections held by SCUA. As of June 2011, it currently contains over 42,000 items from the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, including all of Du Bois’s general correspondence from 1877 through about 1940 and nearly 1,000 photographs. Visit Credo at http://credo.library.umass.edu/.
The links below direct researchers to a descriptive page for collections with digital content, from which we provide links to individual digital files. Video files are linked directly. With a few exceptions, the files on this site are provided either in pdf (texts), mp3 (audio), or wmv (video) format.
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The Collections
Archives and Manuscripts (Overview and graphic menu)
- Brooks, William Penn, letters from Japan, 1868-1895
- Digital UMass, documents from the history of UMass Amherst
Books and periodicals (Overview and graphic menu)
Audio Files (see also Digital UMass for UMass oral histories)
- Aptheker, Herbert
lecture on W.E.B. Du Bois
The Life and Work of W.E.B. Du Bois (9/23/1971)
The Life and Work of W.E.B. Du Bois (10/21/1971) - Bellecourt, Vernon, American Indian Movement
- Brotherhood of the Spirit commune
Interviews (edited version), ca.1973
Interviews, part 1 (raw files) | part 2
Spirit in Flesh Music - Chrisman, Miriam
Oral history with “gramps”, Side A
Oral history with “gramps”, Side B. - Distinguished Visitor Program, UMass Amherst, 1972-1979
Includes lectures by Frank Abagnale, Isaac Asimov, Julian Bond, Angela Davis, David Halberstam, Tom Hayden, and Wilma Rudolph (audio files in mp3 format). - Francis, Robert. Poetry readings, 1977-1979
- David Kopay, gay professional athlete, ca.1974
part 1 | part 2 - MR2: Massachusetts Review Radio
- Massachusetts State College Glee Club, ca.1937
- Memory Corps, oral histories with UMass Amherst alumni
- Oglesby, Carl. Lecture, “World Revolution and Containment,” 1966
- Poets and poetry readings
Featuring readings by e.e. cummings, Robert Francis, Robert Frost, Stanley Kunitz, James Merrill, and Richard Wilbur. - WFCR: Five College Lecture Hall, 1965-1969
Includes lectures by Hugh MacDiarmid, B.F. Skinner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and P.L. Travers.
