Digital UMass contains the results of several initiatives to document the history of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and its predecessors the Massachusetts Agricultural College and Massachusetts State College. In addition to an on-going project to capture the oral history of the University’s administrators and reflections on student life, the archives has digitized materials relating to the early years of co-education at MAC and women’s education at the University. Additional materials will be added as they become available.

Annual Reports, 1864-1932/33

College Monthly

Student newspaper, 1887-1889

Distinguished Visitors Program, 1972-1979

Invited lectures on current topics by distinguished speakers (audio files in mp3 format).

Oral Histories

• Barnard, Ellsworth and Mary, Classes of 1928 and 1934
  Transcript
  Audio:

  Barnard oral history
• Bromery, Randolph W., Chancellor
  Audio:

  Bromery oral history, part 1
  part 2
  part 3
• Class of 1919: Mary E. Garvey, Willard K. French, Anna Liebman Shore, E. Sidney Stockwell
  Transcript
  Audio:

  Class of 1919 oral history, part 1
  part 2
• Conant, Eudora V., Nutritionist and wife of Ralph Van Meter, UMass President, 1947-1954
  Transcript
  Audio:

  Conant oral history, part 1
  part 2
• Curtis, Helen, Dean of Women, 1945-1973
  Transcript
• McLaughlin, Fred, Class of 1911.
  Audio:

  McLaughlin oral history, part 1
  part 2
• Mitchell, Helen, Nutritionist; Dean, School of Home Economics
  Transcript
• Rand, Mrs. Frank Prentice, wife of Frank Prentice Rand, poet, writer, and UMass Professor of English. Reminiscences about Robert Frost, faculty lives, MAC.
  Audio:

  Rand oral history, part 1
  part 2
• Wheeler, Mae Holden, Class of 1916
  Transcript

President Kenyon L. Butterfield

• Selected records related to women’s education at Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1906-1924

Dean of the College William L. Machmer

• Selected records related to women’s affairs at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (MAC), Massachusetts State College (MSC), and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1924-1951

Student Handbooks, 1890-1950

• (See also Record Group 45/4: Women’s Student Government Association — Handbooks for Women)

Student Affairs — Dean of Women Helen Curtis

• Records, 1902-1993 (bulk, 1940-1973)

Student Affairs

• Advisory Council of Women. Records, 1921-1964
• Women in Agriculture. Records, 1917-1958

Faculty Papers

• Hicks, Adeline. Papers, 1917-1987
• Skinner, Edna L. Papers, 1930-1997

Women’s Student Government Association

• Handbooks for Women, 1925/27-1941
  
  (See also Record Group 30/00/2: Student Handbooks, 1890-1950)

Student Research Papers:

• Keith, Vicky, “Mass Aggie Women, 1910-1923” (Fall 1983)
• O’Donnell, Robert, “Undergraduate Women and the Post-War College: The University of Massachusetts” (December 3, 1996)