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.

Alexander E. Cance

Professor and Head of the Agricultural Economics Department at the Massachusetts Agricultural College who also worked briefly for Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, as well as the United States Department of Agriculture.

Includes biographical materials, correspondence concerning Cance’s role in the agricultural cooperative movement, addresses, articles (both in typescript and published), lectures, book reviews, typescript of a Carnegie study of factors in agricultural economics, a summary of a U.S. Senate report of which he was co-author, “Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe,” and research material. No documentation of his role as a delegate to the Hoover Conference on Economic Crisis, 1920, or his position as Supervisor of Market Research with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1922.

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

U

UAASC

see Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center (UAASC) (1997- ) RG-6/7

UALRC

see United Asia Learning Resource Center RG-25/U5

U-ARTS

see Undergraduate Art Students Association (U-ARTS) RG-45/40/U5

UCC

see Computer Center RG-29

UCF

see United Christian Foundation (UCF) RG-30/12

UCS

see Computer Center RG-29

UCS Notes (Computer Center Publication) (1990)

RG-29/00/4

UES

see University of El Salvador (UES) RG-60/3

UFF

see University Fund for the Future (UFF) (1989- ) RG-50/7/1

UIS Newsletter (Data Processing Center) (1987- )

RG-35/7

UMAGRAFFITI (Student Publication)

RG-45/00/U4

UMass (News Office) (1983-1984)

RG-5/00/7

UMASS (1996- ) (News Office)

RG-5/00/12

see also Massachusetts (1990-1996) RG-5/00/11

UMASS (University Monthly Anthropological Survey Service (1982-1989)

RG-25/A6/00

UMASS 1983 and UMASS 1984 (Public Affairs)

RG-5/00/7

UMASS Alumni Connection, The

see Alumni Connection, The UMass (1992-1994) RG-50/00/3

UMass Alumni News and Views (1978-1983)

RG-50/00/3

UMass Amherst Globe, The (International Programs) (1993- )

RG-6/4/9/2

UMass 125th Anniversary Slide Show (1988)

RG-187/1

UMass Answers (Continuing Education) (1982- )

RG-7/00

UMass Around the Globe (1992- )

RG-39/9

UMass Boston

RG-55/3

UMass Boston Planning and Establishment (pre-1965)

RG-55/3/1

UMass Dartmouth

see Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU) RG-55/5

UMass Educational Television (UMET)

RG-13/1/3

UMass Faculty and Staff for Peace and Justice in the Middle East

see Peace and Justice in the Middle East, UMass Faculty and Staff for RG-40/3/P1

UMass Greens (1989)

RG-45/80/U4

UMass Hunger Task Force

see Hunger Task Force, UMass RG-45/40/H8

UMass Information Technology Services (formerly University Information Systems)

RG-35/7

UMass Interaction (1994- )

RG-3/00

UMass Labor Council (1995- )

RG-40/5/U5

UMass Lowell

see University of Lowell RG-55/4

UMass Majors (catalog)

see CASIAC RG-11/5

see also Admissions RG-30/5

UMass News (News Office)

RG-5/3

UMass Nutrient Data Bank

see Food Science and Nutrition, Department of–Nutrient Data Bank, UMass RG-25/F5/3

UMass 125th Anniversary Slide Show (1988)

RG-187/1

UMass Peacemakers

see Peacemakers, UMass (1982-1987) RG-45/80/P4

see also Peacemakers Records (1963-1990) MS309

UMass Plato User’s Group Newsletter

see Massachusetts CAI Consortium Newsletter (1985- ) RG-29/00

UMass Program at Freiburg

see Freiburg, UMass Program at RG-25/F8

U-Mass Tenant Association (UMTA)

RG-35/12/3

UMass Worcester

see Medical School, Worcester RG-55/2

U-Math Newsletter (1981)

RG-25/M5/00

UMET

see UMass Educational Television (UMET) RG-13/1/3

UMPSO

see Pagan Association, UMass RG-45/70/P3

UMTA

see UMass Tenant Association (UMTA) RG-35/12/3

UMTC

see University of Massachusetts Transportation Center (1994- ) RG-25/U4

Undergrad, The (Business Club) (1974-1976)

RG-12/4

Undergraduate Admissions Task Force (1999- )

RG-40/2/U2

Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support Center (UAASC) (1997- )

RG-6/7

Undergraduate Art Students Association (U-ARTS) (1987)

RG-45/40/U5

Undergraduate Course of Study Committee (Faculty Senate, 1960-1963)

RG-40/2/A3

Undergraduate Curriculum Study Committee’s Project (Faculty Senate, 1996- )

RG-40/2/A3

Undergraduate Education, Associate Provost for

see Provost for Undergraduate Education, Associate (1972-1973, 1981- ) RG-6/10

Undergraduate Journal

RG-45/00/U5

Undergraduate Retention Committee (Official University Committee) (1992)

RG-40/2/U4

see also Retention Committee (1985- ) RG-40/2/R5

Unification Church of America (Religious Group) (1981-1984)

RG-45/70/U5

Union, Credit

see Credit Union RG-40/5/C7

Union of Professional Employees

see Union of Professional Employees (UPE) MS-47

Union of Student Employees (1975-1976) RG-45/45/U5

Union Program Council

RG-45/17

Union, Radical Student

see Radical Student Union RG-45/80/R1

Union, Social

see Social Union RG-45/90/S6

Union Video Center (Student Video Project) (1972)

RG-45/30/U5

Unions and Associations

RG-45/45

Unionization, Student

see Student Unionization (Association) RG-45/45/S7

Unions and Associations (Faculty and Staff)

RG-40/5

Unions and Associations (Student Body)

RG-45/45

Unions, Employees

see Unions and Associations RG-40/5

United Asia House (1989)

RG-45/40/U6

see also United Asia Learning Resource Center (UALRC) (1990) RG-25/U5

United Asia Learning Resource Center (UALRC) (1990)

RG-25/U5

see also United Asia House (1989) RG-45/40/U6

United Christian Foundation (UCF)

RG-30/12

United States Student Association (USSA) (1983-1988)

RG-45/80/U5

Universities, State

see Land-Grant Colleges, State Universities RG-60/1

University Advancement

see University Relations and Development RG-39

University Affairs Committee (Faculty Senate, 1965-1972)

RG-40/2/A3

University as a Whole

RG-1

University as a Whole–Publications

RG-1/00

University Bulletin (1973-1977)

RG-5/00/6

see also Weekly Bulletin, University Bulletin (1953-1971) and Executive Bulletin RG-5/00/3

University Career Center

see Career Center, University RG-30/9/5

University Center for Community College Affairs

see Higher Education, Center for RG-13/3/19/4

University Center for Economic Development (1977- )

RG-6/4/14/2

see also Economic Development, Center for RG-12/12

University China Committee

see China Committee, University RG-40/2/C4

University Chorale

see Singing Clubs–University Chorale RG-25/M9.5

University College (Official University Committee) (1966-1967)

RG-40/2/U5

University College Planning Committee (Faculty Senate, 1966)

RG-40/2/A3

University Committee on AIDS

see AIDS, University Committee on RG-40/2/A5.5

University Committee on Alcohol Use

see Alcohol Use, University Committee on (Official University Committee) RG-40/2/A6

University Committees, Official

see Official University Committees RG-40/2/A1-W6

University Community Service Council (1993- )

RG-40/2/U6

University Computer Service Newsletter

see UCS Notes RG-29/00/4

University Computing Center

see Computer Center RG-29

University Computing Services

see Computer Center RG-29

University Conference Services

RG-7/3

University Counsel

RG-4/16

University Day School

see School RG-25/H9

University Democrats (Student Social Action Group) (1989- )

RG-45/80/U6

University Directions

see Handbooks (Student Affairs) RG-30/00/2

University Faculty Senate, ad hoc Committee

see Faculty Senate, University, ad hoc Committee on (Official University Committee) (1955) RG-40/2/F2

University Fund for the Future (UFF) (1989- )

RG-50/7/1

University Gallery

see Art Gallery RG-11/15

University Guide Service

see ARCON (1965-1984) RG-45/90/A7

see also University Tour Service (1984- ) RG-30/4/1

University Historical Collection

RG-1/200-299

University History Committee

see History Committee, University (125th Anniversary, 1986-1987) RG-40/2/H5

see also Campus Awareness Committee (1986- ) RG-40/2/C.5

University History Project (125th Anniversary, 1987-1988)

RG-1/208

University Honors Program

see Honors Program RG-6/4/11

University Human Subjects Review Committees

RG-9/1/2/1

University Information Systems

see Umass Information Technology Services RG-35/7

University Internship Program

see Internships, Office of (University Internship Program) RG-11/6

University Lectures, Committee on

see Lectures, Committee on University RG-40/2/L1.5

University Magazine

see Massachusetts Magazine (1990-1996) RG-5/00/11

University Medal for Outstanding Service (1973)

RG-2/99

see also Awards, Prizes RG-1/11

University Monthly Anthropological Survey Service

see UMASS (Newsletter) (1982-1989) RG-25/A6/00

University Newsletter (News Bureau) (1968-1970)

RG-5/00/2

University Notebook (News Bureau) (1980-1981)

RG-5/3/2

University of El Salvador (UES)

RG-60/3

University of Lowell

RG-55/4

University of Massachusetts Foundation (1950- )

RG-50/7

see also Trustees Council RG-2/4

University of Massachusetts, Future Committee on

see Future University of Massachusetts (Official University Committee) (1970-1971) RG-40/2/F8

University of Massachusetts-Industry Research on Polymers, Center for

see Center for University of Massachusetts-Industry Research on Polymers RG-25/P7.5

University of Massachusetts Republican Club

see Republican Club, University of Massachusetts (1983- ) RG-45/80/R4

University of Massachusetts Transportation Center (UMTC)

RG-25/U4

University, Officials of the (Photographs)

see Officials of the University (Trustees and Presidents Photographs) RG-110

University Outreach

RG-16

University Outreach, Provost for

see Vice Chancellor for University Outreach RG-6/6

University Outreach, Vice Chancellor For

see Vice Chancellor for University Outreach (2000- ) RG-16/1

University Photo Negatives Collection

RG-171

University Photography Club

see Photographers Association RG-45/40/P5

University Policy

see Vice President for University Policy RG-3/2

University Press (Graduate School)

RG-10/4

see also Research and Graduate Studies RG-9

University Professors, American Association of

see American Association of University Professors (AAUP) RG-40/5/A2

University Relations and Development

RG-39

University Relations and Development Council (Faculty Senate, 1995)

RG-40/2/A3

University Relations and Development–Publications

RG-39/00

University Relations and Development–Vice Chancellor for

see Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Development RG-39/1

University Relations, Vice President for

see Vice President for University Relations RG-3/14

University Report (President’s Office) (1978-1979)

RG-3/00

University, Secretary of the

see Secretary of the University RG-3/3

University Staff Association (USA)

RG-40/5/U6

see also Massachusetts State Employees Association (MSEA) (prior to 1977) MS-49

University Statistics (USTAT) (1998) (Student Special Interest Group) RG-45/40/U8

University Store

RG-37/5

University Theatre

RG-25/T3.8

University Tour Service (1984- )

RG-30/4/1

see also ARCON (University Guide Service) (1965-1984) RG-45/90/A7

University Without Walls (UWW) (School of Education)

RG-13/4/2/3

see also Associate Provost for Special Program RG-6

University Without Walls Newsletter (1972-1987)

RG-13/4/2/3

University Women

RG-40/7

University Women’s Network (UWN)

RG-40/5/U7

University Women’s Professional Network (UWPN)

see Women in Staff Professional Positions (WISPP) RG-40/5/W5

University Writing Program

RG-7/11

University Year for Action (UYA) (1971-1976)

RG-6/4/4

Upbeat (1986-1989)

RG-30/11/1

UPC

see Union Program Council (UPC) RG-45/17

Update (1982-1991)

RG-25/P8/00

UPE

see Union of Professional Employees (MTA) MS-47

Upside Down Club (Religious Group) (1992- ) RG-45/70/U7

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/U6

Upward Bound (1966-1993)

RG-6/4/13

see also Upward Bound Committee (Faculty Senate, 1967) RG-40/2/A3

Future Scholars of America (1993- ) RG-6/4/13.5

Upward Bound, Committee on (Faculty Senate, 1967)

RG-40/2/A3

Urban and Community Forestry, Northeast Center for

see Northeast Center for Urban and Community Forestry (1996- ) RG-25/N7

Urban Education, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23/1

USA

see University Staff Association (USA) RG-40/5/U6

USSA

see United States Student Association (USSA) RG-45/80/U5

UVC TV-19 (Student Run Television Station) (1999- )

RG-45/30/U7

UWN

see University Women’s Network (UWN) RG-40/5/U7

UWPN

see Women in Staff Professional Positions (WISPP) RG-40/5/W5

UWW

see University Without Walls (UWW) RG-13/4/2/3

UYA

see University Year for Action (UYA) (1971-1976) RG-6/4/4

1929 cookbook

Assembled by Lynnette E. Foucher, this collection consists chiefly of cookbooks produced by food companies between the 1920s-1970s. These cookbooks reflect the changing role of women in the home as well as new food trends and innovative technology. Taken together, the collection offers a glimpse into the way meal preparation changed in the U.S. during the second half of the twentieth century and how this change transformed the way we eat today.

Professor of English, adviser to student newspaper (The Collegian) and Jewish student organizations, University of Massachusetts, and founding member, College English Association.

The Goldberg Papers contain correspondence, speeches, published writings, papers written as a graduate student, biographical material, book reviews, subject files, newsclippings, and material from committees and projects with which he was involved, including the College English Association, College English Association Institute, Humanities Center for Liberal Education, and American Humanities Seminar.

The International Oil Working Group (IOWG) is one of a number of organizations that worked to implement an oil embargo initiated by the United Nations General Assembly against South Africa to protest the country’s policies of apartheid. The IOWG grew out of the Sanctions Working Group established in 1979. Although the nature and timing of the change in names is unclear, it appears that Dr. Teresa Turner was instrumental in the formation of both groups and was primarily responsible for their organization and administration. Other directors included Luis Prado, Arnold Baker and Kassahun Checole. While the group was loosely organized, it maintained the basic structure of a special advisory board with a pool of research associates. Primary activities involved researching topics related to the oil embargo; writing papers for regional, national, and international conferences; giving testimony at UN meetings; providing information to governments, unions and other groups committed to aiding in the implementation of the oil embargo; lecturing to students and members of the community on the subject of sanctions against South Africa; and collaborating with the UN Center Against Apartheid. Research topics included tanker monitoring to detect and expose those shipping companies that broke the embargo; the energy needs in those countries in southern Africa which depend upon South Africa to meet some of their energy demands; ways to effectively implement and enforce the oil embargo; trade union action by oil transport workers; Namibian independence and decolonization; and underground oil storage in South Africa.

Collection consists of administrative papers including financial records, minutes and association history materials; correspondence; printed materials produced by the IOWG; conference files; UN documents relating to South Africa and sanctions; and reference materials, including published reports, news clippings, newsletters and journals, related to oil shipping, tanker information and South African economic and political activity generally.

Benjamin Smith Lyman, 1902

A native of Northampton, Massachusetts, Benjamin Smith Lyman was a prominent geologist and mining engineer. At the request of the Meiji government in Japan, Lyman helped introduce modern geological surveying and mining techniques during the 1870s and 1880s, and his papers from that period illuminate aspects of late nineteenth century Japan, New England, and Pennsylvania, as well as the fields of geology and mining exploration and engineering. From his earliest financial records kept as a student at Phillips Exeter Academy through the journal notations of his later days in Philadelphia, Lyman’s meticulous record-keeping provides much detail about his life and work. Correspondents include his classmate, Franklin B. Sanborn, a friend of the Concord Transcendentalists and an active social reformer, abolitionist, and editor.

The papers, 1848-1911, have been organized into nine series: correspondence, financial records, writings, survey notebooks, survey maps, photographs, student notes and notebooks, collections, and miscellaneous (total 25 linear feet). A separate Lyman collection includes over 2,000 books in Japanese and Chinese acquired by Lyman, and in Western languages pertaining to Asia.

MassEquality sticker

In the late 1990s, MassEquality was formed as a coalition of advocacy groups that sought to build legislative support for same-sex marriage and gay rights in Massachusetts. Formally incorporated as a 501(c)4 advocacy organization in late 2001, the coalition hired its first employee, Campaign Coordinator Marty Rouse, in late 1993, and achieved a landmark success that November when the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that the state may not “deny the protections, benefits and obligations conferred by civil marriage to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry.” On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to allow equal marital rights to same-sex couples. Since that time, MassEquality has continued to champion marriage equality nationally.

The MassEquality Records document the origins, operations, and activism of one of the leading organizations in New England advocating for marriage rights and civic equality for all, regardless of sexual orientation. The collection includes some material generated by the Freedom to Marry Coalition, a partner in the coalition, and a series of large banners and posters, some of which were displayed during the event celebrating the arrival of marriage equality in Massachusetts.

The Northampton State Hospital was opened in 1858 to provide moral therapy to the “insane,” and under the superintendency of Pliny Earle, became one of the best known asylums in New England. Before the turn of the century, however, the Hospital declined, facing the problems of overcrowding, poor sanitation, and inadequate funding. The push for psychiatric deinstitutionalization in the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a steady reduction of the patient population, the last eleven of whom left Northampton State in 1993.

With the Government Documents staff, SCUA has digitized the annual reports of the Northampton State Hospital from the beginning until the last published report in 1939. The reports appeared annually from 1856 until 1924 and irregularly from then until 1939.

Carl Oglesby, 2006
Photo by Jennifer Fels

Reflective, critical, and radical, Carl Oglesby was an eloquent voice of the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s. A native of Ohio, Oglesby was working in the defense industry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1964 when he became radicalized by what he saw transpiring in Vietnam. Through his contacts with the Students for a Democratic Society, he was drawn into the nascent antiwar movement, and thanks to his formidable skills as a speaker and writer, rose rapidly to prominence. Elected president of the SDS in 1965, he spent several years traveling nationally and internationally advocating for a variety of political and social causes.

In 1972, Oglesby helped co-found the Assassination Information Bureau which ultimately helped prod the U.S. Congress to reopen the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A prolific writer and editor, his major works include Containment and Change (1967), The New Left Reader (1969), The Yankee and Cowboy War (1976), and The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories (1992). The Oglesby Papers include research files, correspondence, published and unpublished writing, with the weight of the collection falling largely on the period after 1975.