The Peopling of Tompkins County: A Social History

History

Carol Kammen

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Heart of the Lakes Publishing

<p>Using students' diaries, letters, email and blogs, Cornell historian Carol Kammen captures the essence of the undergraduate experience at Cornell through first-person student accounts that span nearly 140 years of university history.</p>

First-Person Cornell

Cornell University Library

Starting from a partial list of African-American students in the University Library archives, she pieced together the students' history from hundreds of primary sources -- yearbook entries, student diaries, administrators' correspondence and newspapers. Cheryl Rowland, on the Rare and Manuscript Collections staff in Kroch Library, "was able to follow the slightest clues to locate archival materials," Kammen said.

Part & Apart: The Black Experience At Cornell 1865-1945

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