Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes the theses and PhD dissertations that have been given to the Archives. The collection was originally organized by topic and/or department. Starting in 2024, the theses are listed in the order in which they were added to the collection.

While the collection does include signficiant portion of the theses and dissertations put out by students, there are works that have not been given to the archives.

Scope and Contents This collection contains the personal papers of Ralph Stone relating to his time as a professor of history at Sangamon State University. It includes newsletters, brochures, correspondence, notes, and other publications relating to activist and cooperative organizations, and notes, scholarly articles, correspondence, and reproductions of original sources relating to Stone’s research in labor history. It is divided into three series: Activist Groups and Publications, Cooperative...

Scope and Contents This collection contains photographic materials produced by Richard Phillips and a nearly complete run of the Iliniwek newspaper, which Phillips published from 1963 to 1976. Materials concern the early history of Illinois and heavily feature small towns, unique architectural details, and historic sites. The collection is divided into three series: Photographic Negatives, Contact Sheets, and Iliniwek Newspaper.Series I: Photographic Negatives, 1963-1976 contains negatives of...

Scope and Contents This collection contains records relating to John Keiser’s work at SSU. This includes manuscript drafts, outlines, research notes, and graphs for Keiser's book, "Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865-1898," published in 1977 by the University of Illinois Press as part of the Sesquicentennial History of Illinois series. It also includes collected pamphlets, clippings, reports, correspondence, newsletters, journals and other publications concerning labor history and unions, particularly...