How to Use This Guide
Welcome to the Tisch Library guide for Tufts in American History. Use the table of contents to find definitions, topic overviews, books, articles, and more that will help you with your research.
Background Information on Tufts & American History
Specialized Online Resources:
- Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts HistoryThe encyclopedia seeks to capture more than 150 years of Tufts' achievements, societal contributions and outstanding alumni and faculty in concise entries.
- Light on the Hill, the History of Tufts CollegeLight on the Hill, The History of Tufts College, was published to coincide with the centennial of the institution in 1952.
- Light on the Hill. Volume II a history of Tufts University since 1952The second volume of the history of Tufts University was published in 1986, covering the years from 1952 to 1986.
- Here and There at TuftsHere and There at Tufts was published by the class of 1909 as an early form of a yearbook. The text includes photographs and histories of academic buildings, dormitories, former deans and presidents, classrooms, fraternities, athletic teams, and student organizations.
- African American Freedom Trail ProjectThe African American Freedom Trail Project is a city-wide network and community-based archive, housed at Tufts University. Inspired by the scholarship of the late Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) on civil rights and the history of Black Boston. Driven by faculty and student research, the project maps African American public history sites, while developing collaborative, community-based public history projects across greater Boston.
Print Resources in the Tisch Library Collection:
History of Tufts College
Call Number: Book Stacks LD5393 .A2Authored by the Tufts College class of 1897.
A Centennial View--Yesterday and Today at Tufts CollegeCall Number: Oversize LD5393 .C45 1950Reprinted from the Jumbo Books of 1952, the Undergraduate Student Year Book of Tufts College.
Tufts UniversityCall Number: Book Stacks LD5394.5 .S28 2001Tufts College was founded in 1852 as a liberal arts college by a group of Universalists committed to creating a nonsectarian institution of higher education.
An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts, 1976-2002Call Number: Book Stacks LD5393 .G58 2004Leads the reader on an entertaining journey through the sometimes turbulent history of Tufts University since the 1970s.
