The Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections, located on the 3rd floor of the Billy Graham Center, is a department of Buswell Memorial Library.

The Wheaton College Archives seeks to document the history of Wheaton College, 1860 to the present, and its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, 1853-59. The College Archives also serves as a major information source for people, publications, and events associated with Wheaton College.

The Special Collections of Wheaton College seeks to collect, preserve, and present materials in all formats related to the life-work of significant adherents to the Christian faith in the modern world. The goal is to support the academic curriculum, strengthen and broaden the College's rich tradition of academic excellence, integration of faith and learning in scholarly endeavor that issues in servant-ministry.

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Marching to the Drumbeat of Abolitionism

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Wheaton College, Marching to the Drum Beat of Abolitionism: Wheaton College and the Coming of the Civil War by Dr. David E. Maas (Wheaton College Press, 2010) is being published as part of the college’s year long sesquicentennial celebration.
Here’s a more complete description of Dr. Maas’ book:
“Historians [...]

Whither Wheaton? — Further insights into Wheaton College

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Andrew Chignell’s article, Whither Wheaton?, appearing in SoMA (The Society of Mutual Autopsy), is proving to be rather provocative, especially as it garners attention for its content as well as its “backstory.” In attempting to provide a guide for the future by looking to Wheaton’s past (more accurately, “near-past”), Chignell reviews the presidency of A. [...]

New Red Grange book by Lars Anderson available

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Lars Anderson, author of Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football’s greatest battle, has just had The First Star: Red Grange and the barnstorming tour that launched the NFL published by Random House. This book follows on the heels of Gary Poole’s biography of Harold Edward Grange. [...]

“Propagating Infidel Principles” - Sesquicentennial Snapshot

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

From its earliest days the Wheaton College community has agreed to common standards of behavior. These codes have changed significantly over the last 150 years and moved from explicitly forbidding activities to the biblically-based principles of today’s Community Covenant. Once referred to as “The Pledge”, students from previous [...]

Through the Eyes of a Child - Sesquicentennial snapshot

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The following comments by Charles Blanchard, who would have been 12 years-old when his father, Jonathan, assumed the presidency in 1860, are taken from David Maas’ Wheaton College Awakenings, 1853-1873.
“That fall [1860] I entered the academy, and my father being president of the institution, of course I was in touch with all college affairs. The [...]

“Zeroes for each of you” - Sesquicentennial snapshot

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

In his memoirs The Wheaton I Remember, Edward “Coach” Coray (Professor Emeritus and former Executive Director of the Alumni Association) recalls his first days as an undergraduate student at Wheaton College in the Fall of 1919.
Our first class was rhetoric and we sat in chairs around the sides of the room. Professor Straw took roll [...]

Run Your Home Into The Ground!

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

This evocative booklet was written by retired Wheaton College Chaplain, LeRoy “Pat” Patterson ‘40. Penned in 1975 during the rise of the feminist movement, Patterson reflects on his 33 year marriage to his high school sweetheart and raising of three “fairly normal” children to highlight ten sure-fire ways to run your home into the ground.

Let [...]

Faith & Geology @ Wheaton

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Wheaton faculty Steve Moshier, David Maas and Jeff Greenberg recently saw the publication of their article on the history of geology at Wheaton College and its engagement with Wheaton’s theological stance and teachings in Geology and Religion: a history of harmony and hostility (Geological Society, London).
Since the college’s founding in 1860, geology has been part [...]

Gold-diggers

Friday, March 20th, 2009

In Paul Bechtel’s Wheaton College: A Heritage Remembered, it is remarked that “Jonathan Blanchard drove himself unsparingly. He traveled, lectured, organized and promoted agencies for social justice, and labored in the cause of Christian higher education. Never a physically robust man, he suffered from chronic dyspepsia and periods of weakness. In the hope that his [...]

Francis Schaeffer And the Shaping of Evangelical America recently published

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Continuing the Eerdman’s Library of Religious Biography series (edited by Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch and Allen Guelzo), Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America seeks to provide a ciritical biography of this noted evangelical figure.
Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) was probably the single greatest intellectual influence on young evangelicals of the 1960s and ’70s. He was [...]

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