Collections : [Connecticut College -Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives]

Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) was an educator and activist who fought for women's suffrage and the rights of African-Americans. Her attempt to run an integrated school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut resulted in protests, arrest, and two criminal trials. Although she was acquitted of all charges in 1834, she closed the school and left the state. In 1995 she was named Connecticut's official state heroine. This collection contains manuscripts and research materials gathered by Helen Earle Gilbert Sellers in preparation for a biography of Prudence Crandall.

Correspondence, records, documents, ephemera, scrapbooks and manuscripts of the American organist and composer Roberta Bitgood.

The Roland C. Clement collection documents the professional, military and academic career of American environmentalist, Roland C. Clement. Types of materials in the collection include: correspondence, writings and speeches, memorandum, minutes, reports, photographs, notebooks, clippings and other manuscripts relating to his professional and academic experience.

Materials pertaining to the Connecticut College Summer Program in the Humanities/Upward Bound for the years 1964-1975.

Administrative records, correspondence, and land records documenting the Arboretum at Connecticut College's founding and operations, including extensive information on Arboretum's growth, environmental goals, and operational difficulties from 1930 to 2000s.

This collection contains the cartoons of John Cawood, collector and prominent member of the Beatrix Potter Society.

This collection contains the cartoons of John Cawood, collector and prominent member of the Beatrix Potter Society.

The Louis Sheaffer collection of Eugene O'Neill is an archive of the life and works of Eugene O'Neill formed by author Louis Sheaffer's work on his acclaimed two-volume biography, O'Neill, Son and Playwright and O'Neill, Son and Artist. The success of Sheaffer's biography derives in large part from the extensive research he carried out over some twenty years, and the detailed picture of O'Neill that emerged.

Collections of manuscripts and copies of archival materials and books documenting the activities of the Fourteenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry between 1862 and 1865.

Materials documenting Connecticut College's response to and activities surrounding the Vietnam War, 1967-1972.