Non-partisan political organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts that influences public policy through education and advocacy by registering voters, organizing candidate forums, publishing voting guides, and disseminating general information on the legislative process and the functioning of government on the local, state, and federal levels.

Includes minutes, annual reports, financial records, publications, extensive files on specific programs, photographs, video- and audio-tapes, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Also contains information on two league members who rose to national prominence: Lucy Wilson Benson (Under Secretary of State in the federal government in 1977) and Jane F. Garvey (Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in 1997).

Title page, Volume 1 (1671)

The Hampshire Council of Governments is a voluntary association of cities and towns and the successor to the former government of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, that was abolished in 1999. A body politic and corporate, its charter ratified by Massachusetts General Law 34B, S20(b), the Council oversees roadways, the electricity supply, building inspection, tobacco control, cooperative purchasing, and other services for member communities.

The Hampshire Council collection contains a dense record of county-level governance in western Massachusetts from the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century with extensive documentation of the actions of the County Commissioners, and before them the Court of Common Pleas and Court of General Sessions. Rich in documenting the development of the transportation infrastructure of western Massachusetts, the collection offers detailed information associated with the planning and construction of highways, canals, ferries, and railroads, but the early records offer a broad perspective on the evolution of the legal and cultural environment, touching on issues from disorderly conduct (e.g., fornication, Sabbath breaking) to the settlement of estates, local governance, public works, and politics.

In the summer of 1967, members of University of Massachusetts Amherst campus groups, such as the Faculty Group on War and Peace and the Students for Political Action, joined with individuals from other area colleges and from the community at large to form the Valley Peace Center of Amherst for the purposes of opposing the Vietnam War, providing draft counseling, eliciting pledges from the government to avoid first use of nuclear and biological weapons, and reduction of the power of the “military-industrial complex”. The Center was active for more than five and a half years, drawing its financial support largely from the community and its human resources from student and community volunteers.

Correspondence, minutes, volunteer and membership lists, financial records, newsletters, questionnaires, notes, petitions, clippings, posters, circulars, pamphlets, periodicals, other printed matter, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to alternative service, boycotts, war tax resistance, prison reform, environmental quality, and political candidates.

LWVBC

First founded as a chapter for Pittsfield and later for all of central Berkshire county, this local league is one of many Massachusetts chapters of the national non-partisan political organization, League of Women Voters, that influences public policy through education and advocacy by registering voters, organizing candidate forums, publishing voting guides, and disseminating general information on the legislative process and the functioning of government on the local, state, and federal levels.

The bulk of the collection documents the activities and topics of interest to members of the League of Women Voters of Central Berkshire during the last three decades of their work before disbanding in 2001. The chapter consistently served to educate the public on voter registration, the voting process, and on the functioning of local and state government. Other issues of importance included child care and rights, prison reform, clean water, and health care.

A product of the vibrant and progressive political culture of western Massachusetts during the early 1970s, the Alternative Energy Coalition played a key role in the growth of antinuclear activism. In 1974, the AEC helped mobilize support for Sam Lovejoy after he sabotaged a weather tower erected by Northeast Utilities in Montague, Mass., in preparation for a proposed nuclear power plant, and they helped organize the drive for a referendum opposing not only the proposed plant in Montague, but existing plants in Rowe, Mass., and Vernon, Vt. Forming extensive connections with other antinuclear organizations, the AEC also became one of the organizations that united in 1976 to form the Clamshell Alliance, which made an art of mass civil disobedience.

The AEC Records provide insight into grassroots activism of the 1970s and 1980s, galvanized by the seemingly unrestrained growth of the nuclear power industry. The records, emanating from the Hampshire County branch, contain both research materials used by the AEC and organizational and promotional materials produced by them, including publications, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and materials used during protests. Of particular interest are a thick suite of organizational and other information pertaining to the occupation of the Seabrook (N.H.) nuclear power plant in 1979 and minutes, notes, and other materials relating to the founding and early days of the Clamshell Alliance. The collection is closely related to the Antinuclear Collection (MS 547).

William K. Hefner

In 1960, William K. Hefner (1915-1993) became one of the first of new breed of radical pacifists to run for elective office, when he ran as a peace candidate for Congress in the 1st district of Massachusetts. An accountant from Greenfield, Hefner was involved at a national level with movements for peace and civil rights. An early member of SANE, a founder of Political Action for Peace in 1959 (now CPPAX) and the Greenfield Peace Center (1963), and an active member of the American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Turn Toward Peace, and the World Without War Conference, Hefner was an energetic force in the movements for peace and disarmament, civil rights, and a more just economic system. He ran unsuccessfully for office in three elections between 1960 and 1964, and supported peace candidate H. Stuart Hughes in his bid for election to the U.S. Senate in 1962.

The Hefner papers offer a remarkable record of politically-engaged activism for peace and social justice in the early 1960s. With an intensely local focus, Hefner was tied in to the larger movements at the state and national level, corresponding with major figures such as A.J. Muste, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Spock, and Arthur Springer. The collection includes particularly rich documentation of the early years of Political Action for Peace, which Hefner helped found, with correspondence, minutes of meetings, and publications, as well as equally rich materials on Hefner’s bids for congress in 1960 and 1962.

Levi Stockbridge, ca.1853

Born in Hadley, Mass., in 1820, Levi Stockbridge was the long-time farm superintendent at Massachusetts Agricultural College and an instructor in agriculture. Known for his work on improving crop production and for developing fertilizers, Stockbridge was an important figure in the development of the Experiment Station. After filling in as interim President of MAC in 1879, he was appointed president for two years, serving during a period of intense financial stress. After his retirement in 1882, he was named an honorary professor of agriculture.

The Stockbridge Papers include correspondence, personal notebooks, travel diary, journal as a farmer (1842-1845), writings, lectures, notes on experiments, clippings, photocopies of personal and legal records, and biographical material, including reminiscences by Stockbridge’s daughter. Also contains auction records, notebook of Amherst, Massachusetts town records (1876-1890), and printed matter about Amherst and national elections, including some about his candidacy for Congress on Labor-Greenback party ticket 1880. Also contains papers (13 items) of Stockbridge’s son, Horace Edward Stockbridge (1857-1930), agricultural chemist and educator, including a letter (1885) from him to the elder Stockbridge, written from Japan while he was professor at Hokkaido University.

Settled in 1660 and incorporated in 1718, the town of Brookfield (Worcester County) straddles the Boston Post Road, one of the major arteries during the colonial period connecting Boston with the towns of the Connecticut River Valley and New York.

This assemblage of documents from the town of Brookfield consists primarily of warrants for town meetings, many with agendas, issued through the local constable. Concentrated in the 1770s, these warrants provide relatively detailed information on matters of local importance, including town finances, tax assessments, contributions to the poor house, roadways, and property disputes. During the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary years, however, issues of interest to the town were often wrapped up in regional or national political issues. Town freeholders, for example, were called to consider requests to “come into any Vote or Resolve Respecting the East India Company Tea,” the encouragement of manufacture of firearms, smallpox inoculation, and pay for the town’s Minute Men.

A prosperous family of merchants and landowners, the Brinleys were well ensconced among the social and political elite of colonial New England. Connected by marriage to other elite families in Rhode Island and Massachusetts — the Auchmutys, Craddocks, and Tyngs among them — the Brinleys were refined, highly educated, public spirited, and most often business-minded. Although many members of the family remained loyal to the British cause during the Revolution, the family retained their high social standing in the years following.

The Brinley collection includes business letters, legal and business records, wills, a fragment of a diary, documents relating to slaves, newspaper clippings, and a small number of paintings and artifacts. A descendent, Nancy Brinley, contributed a quantity of genealogical research notes and photocopies of Brinley family documents from other repositories. Of particular note in the collection is a fine nineteenth century copy of a John Smibert portrait of Deborah Brinley (1719), an elegant silver tray passed through the generations, and is a 1713 list of the library of Francis Brinley, which offers a foreshadowing of the remarkable book collection put together in the later nineteenth century by his descendant George Brinley.

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[ O ][ P, Q ][ R ][ S ][ T ][ U ][ V ][ W ][ XYZ ]

B

Baccalaureate Day

see Press Information (Commencement) RG-1/7/1

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC)

RG-11/4

Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration Newsletter (1973- )

RG-11/4

Baha’i Club (Religious Club) (1972-1997)

RG-45/70/B3

Bands (Music and Dance Department)

RG-25/M9.2

Banqueteer, Aggie

see Aggie Banqueteer RG-45/00/A2

Baseball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Baseball (1868- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Men’s)

see Sports-Men’s Basketball (1898- ) RG-18/2

Basketball (Women’s)

see Sports-Women’s Basketball (1978- ) RG-18/2

Bathrooms, Coed (Physical Plant) (1981)

RG-36/50/B3

see also Office of Residential Resource Management RG-30/21/1

Baton Twirling

see Sports-Women’s Baton Twirling (1973) RG-18/2

Bay State Ruralist (1912-1917)

RG-45/00/B2

BCC

see Boston Church of Christ (1990- ) (Religious Group) RG-45/70/B6

BCP

see Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- ) RG-6/4/6.5

BDIC

see Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) (College of Arts and Sciences) RG-11/4

BDIC Newsletter (1973-1987)

RG-11/4

Beacon (1970- )

RG-13/00

Beautification Committee, Campus

see Campus Beautification Committee RG-40/2/C.6

Beef and Sheep Highlights (Extension Service, Cooperative) (1958, 1967-1975)

RG-15/8

see also Sheep Shearing (1947, 1954-1955) RG-15/8

Behavior Program, Neuroscience and

see Neuroscience and Behavior Program RG-25/N5

Behavioral Biology, Department of

see Psychology–Behavioral Biology, Dept. of RG-25/P8

Behavioral Sciences Faculty

see Social and Behavioral Sciences Faculty RG-11/30

Berkshire County Cooperative Extension (1915-1989)

RG-15/8/.81

Beta Alpha Psi (Honor Society)

see Accounting Department–Beta Alpha Psi RG-25/A2

Beta Gamma Sigma

RG-45/60/B2.5

Beta Kappa Phi (1985-1996)

RG-45/90/B4

Beta Theta of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

see Sigma Gamma Epsilon (1949- ) RG-45/90/S5.35

Bibliofile, The (1987, 1994)

RG-45/00/B4

Bibliography, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Bibliography (collective) RG-40/4

Bibliography Library Collections

see Collection Development (Library) RG-8/2

Bibliography, Organization Charts (University as a Whole) (1949- )

RG-1/00/1

Bicentennial Committee

see Inter-Campus Committee RG-3/100

Bi-Cultural Education

see Bi-Lingual, Bi-Cultural Education, Center for RG-13/3/21/6

Biff, The Weekly

see Weekly Biff, The (1910) RG-45/00/W4

Bilingual Collegiate Program (BCP) (1974- )

RG-6/4/6.5

Bilingual Collegiate Program–Springfield/UMass Minority Achievement Program (SUMMA)

RG-6/4/6.5

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1991)

RG-25/B5

Biodiversity Conservation Program (1990)

RG-25/F6/3

Biographies (Alumni)

see Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni) RG-50/00/2

Biography, Lists, Directories, Faculty/Staff

see Faculty/Staff Biography, Lists, Directories (collective) RG-40/10

see also Individual Members of Faculty and Staff RG-40/11

Biological Hazards Committee (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/1/2/4

Biological Sciences Library (1962- )

RG-8/3/9

Biology

RG-25/B6

see also Zoology Department RG-25/Z5

Botany Department RG-25/B8

Biology, Plant

see Plant Biology RG-25/P4.5

Biomedical Research Support Grants

see Faculty Research Grant, Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG/BS RG) (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/2/3

Biopharmaceutical Research Unit

see Public Health, Division of–Biopharmaceutical Research Unit RG-17/1

BIOrhythms (1997- )

RG-25/B6/00

Biosci Journal (1995- )

RG-25/B6/00

Note: A journal of undergraduate research at UMass/Amherst.

Biostatistics Technical Reports (1977)

see Public Health, Division of–Biostatistics Technical Reports

RG-17/1

Biotechnology Program

RG-25/B7

Biotechnology Program Committee (1985- )

RG-40/2/B5

Bisexual Concerns

see Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns, The Chancellors Task Force on (1993- ) RG-40/2/G2

Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns, Support Group for RG-40/2/G3

Programs for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Concerns RG-30/2/6

Bits and Bytes (1965-1989)

RG-29/00/1

Black and other Minority Students, Committee for the Collegiate Education of

see Committee for the Collegiate Education of Black and other Minority Students (CCEBMS) (1967- ) RG-6/4/12

Black Culture Center (New Africa House)

RG-30/26

Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- )

RG-45/30/B4

Black Repertory Theatre

RG-25/T3.6

Black Student Union

RG-45/19

Black Students at UMass and in Western Massachusetts

RG-45/15

see also Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Student Life RG-1/204

New Africa House RG-36/100

Lecturers from outside the University RG-1/12

Black Studies, Contributions to

see Contributions to Black Studies RG-60/5/00

Black Studies Program

see Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Dept. of RG-25/A4

see also Five College Cooperation RG-60/5

Five College Black Studies RG-60/5/3

Blue Prints (Cartographic Materials)

RG-181/1

Blues Band (1985- )

RG-45/40/B4

BMCP

see Black Mass Communications Project (BMCP) (1968- ) RG-45/30/B4

Board of Control Annual Report (Experiment Station) (1888, 1893, 1894)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Annual Report (1888, 1893, 1894) RG-15/2.1

Board of Control Meetings (Experiment Station) (1882-1895)

see Experiment Station (State Station, 1882-1895)–Board of Control Meetings (1882-1895) RG-15/2.1

Board of Governors

RG-37/11

Board of Higher Education (1996- )

see Higher Education Coordinating Council (1991-1996) RG-1/5

Board of Higher Education, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Board of Regents (1980-1991)

RG-1/4

see also Massachusetts Board of Higher Education RG-1/3

Higher Education Coordinating Council RG-1/5

Board of Trustees

see Trustees RG-2

Board of Trustees, Faculty Delegate to the

see Faculty to the Board of Trustees (Faculty Senate, 1971-1972) RG-40/2/A3

Boarding Club, MAC (1884)

RG-45/40/B6.2

Bologna, UMass Program at

see French and Italian Department–Bologna, UMASS Program at RG-25/F9/3

Boltwood Project (Social Action Group) (1983- )

RG-45/80/B6

see also Belchertown State School Friends Association (BSSFA) MS302

Bond Center for Equal Education

see Horace Mann Bond Center for Equal Education RG-13/4/10

see also Status Report–Reports to Chancellor (1982) RG-4/00

Book Club, MAC (1908-1925)

RG-45/40/B6.4

Book for Little Loving Children Needing Guidance (1+1=/=3) (1973)

RG-45/00/B6

Books for College Libraries (Library) (1967-1974)

RG-8/4/2

Boston Church of Christ (BCC) (Religious Group) (1990-1993)

RG-45/70/B6

Boston Library Consortium (1975- )

RG-8/10

Boston, UMass

see UMass Boston (1964- ) RG-55/3

Boston University Combined Degree, Granting with UMass and Simmons College

RG-60/4

Botanic Garden (Physical Plant)

RG-36/104/B6

Botany

RG-25/B8

Botany News (1981-1988)

RG-25/B8/00

Bowl Team, College

see College Bowl Team RG-45/40/C5

Boys’ and Girls’ Series (Extension Service, Cooperative)

see

Extension Service, Cooperative–Boys’ and Girls’ Series RG-15/8

Brain Theory Newsletter (1978)

RG-25/C9/00

Broadcast Board, Student Publications and

see Publications and Broadcast Board, Student RG-45/30/P8

Brochures (Public Affairs)

RG-5/00/4

BRSG

see Faculty Research Grant–Biomedical Research Support Grant (F RG-BRSG) RG-9/2/3

Budget

see Budget Documents RG-4/2

Office of Budget and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Capital Outlay Budgets and Priorities Lists RG-6/15/4

Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance RG-35/19

Budget and Finance

RG-32/6

Budget and Finance, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1980-1981)

RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Faculty Senate, 1969-1973)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Program and Budget Committee (1975- ) RG-40/2/A3

Budget Committee (Student Senate) (1981-1993)

RG-45/7/B8

Budget Documents (1908- )

RG-4/2

Budget Office (Administrative Services)

RG-35/20

see also Budget Documents–Newsclippings RG-4/2

see also Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Budgeting and Institutional Research

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting and Institutional Studies, Office of

see Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgeting, Institutional Research and Planning

seeOffice of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS) RG-4/3/2

Budgets, Capital Outlay

see Planning Office RG-6/15/4

Building Association

RG-36/22

Building Authority

RG-36/21

see also Financial Reports RG-3/4/3

Building Materials Technology and Management Program

RG-25/B9

Building Ventilation Working Group, Campus

see Campus Building Ventilation Working Group RG-30/15/1

Buildings and Grounds

RG-36

see also Buildings and Grounds (Photographs) RG-150

Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds (Photographs)

RG-150

see also Panoramic Photos RG-170

Buildings and Grounds, Campus (Films and Videotapes)

see Campus Buildings and Grounds (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/4

Buildings and Grounds Committee (Faculty Senate, 1968-1969, 1980)

RG-40/2/A3

Buildings or parts of campus, specific

see Specific buildings or parts of campus RG-101 thru 104

Buildings Proposed But Not Built

RG-36/103

Buildings, Residential

see Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings Specific (except residential)

RG-36/101

see also Residential Buildings RG-36/102

Buildings proposed but not built RG-36/103

Bulletin Series

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1901- ) RG-1/00/4

Bulletin, University (Catalog Series)

see RG-1/00/4 Catalogs (Bulletin Series ) (1901- ), General Information Bulletins (1898-1978)

Bulletins

see Weekly, University, Executive Bulletins RG-5/00/3

Bulletins, Alumni

see Alumni Bulletins RG-50/00/3

Bulletins, Experiment Stations

seeExperiment Station (1882-95)–Bulletin (#’s 1-57) (1883-1895) RG-15/2.1

and

Experiment Station (1888- )– Bulletin (#1- ) RG-15/2.2

Bulletins, General Information

see Catalogs (Bulletin Series), General Information Bulletins RG-1/00/4

Bureau of Government Research

RG-25/P6.5

Bureau of Government Research Bulletin (1959-1969)

RG-25/P6.5/00

Bureau of Public Administration

RG-25/P6.4

Bursar

RG-35/16

Bursars Office (Microfilm)

RG-190/17

Bus Service, Student Senate

see Student Senate Bus Service RG-45/7/T7

Business Administration, School of

see School of Management RG-12

Business Affairs

see Vice President for Management and Business Affairs RG-3/11

Business Affairs–Office of (Business Manager and Staff) (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4/1

Business Affairs, Office of (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/4

Business and Economic Report, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business and Economic Research, Center for

RG-12/3

see also Massachusetts Business and Economic Report RG-12/3/B8

Business Club

RG-12/4

Business Development Center

see Massachusetts Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) RG-12/10

Business Leadership Education, Affirmative

see Project ABLE RG-12/2

Business Office, Director of Personnel and Financial Services

RG-35/3

Business Procedures and Project Planning, Director of

RG-3/4/5

Businesses Student

see Co-ops and Businesses, Student Run RG-45/40/C6.5

ButterMeter News (1985)

RG-45/00/B8