General Amherst College Histories

Tyler, W. S. (William Seymour). History of Amherst College during Its First Half Century 1821-1871. Springfield, Mass.: C. W. Bryan, 1873.  (Internet Archive)

Tyler, W. S. (William Seymour). A History of Amherst College during the Administrations of Its First Five Presidents: from 1821 to 1891. New York: F.H. Hitchcock, 1895.  (Internet Archive)

King, Stanley. A History of the Endowment of Amherst College. Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College, 1950.  (Internet Archive)

King, Stanley.  The Consecrated Eminence: The Story of the Campus and Buildings of Amherst College. Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College, 1951.  (Internet Archive)

Humphrey, Heman. Sketches of the Early History of Amherst College. Northampton, Mass.: Kingsbury Box & Printing Co., 1905.  (Internet Archive)

Hitchcock, Edward. Reminiscences of Amherst College: Historical Scientific, Biographical And Autobiographical: Also, of Other And Wider Life Experiences. Northampton, Mass.: Bridgman & Childs, 1863.  (Internet Archive)

Webster, Noah. A Plea for a Miserable World. An Address, delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the building erecting for the charity institution in Amherst, Massachusettes, August 9, 1820.  Boston, Mass.: Ezra Lincoln, 1820.  (Amherst College Digital Collection)

The Substance of Two Reports of the Faculty of Amherst College, to the Board of Trustees. Amherst, Mass.: Carter and Adams, 1827.  (Internet Archive)

Exercises at the Semi-Centennial of Amherst College. Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company, 1871.  (Internet Archive)

Hitchcock, Charles H. The Visitor’s Guide to the Public Rooms and Cabinets of Amherst College : With a Preliminary Report. Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College, 1862.  (Internet Archive)

Bierstadt, Edward, and Edward P. Harris. Sunlight Pictures : Amherst : Artotypes. New York, NY: Artotype Pub. Co., 1891.  (Internet Archive)

Opening of Walker Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., Oct. 20, 1870. Boston: Rand, Avery & Frye, 1871.  (Internet Archive)

Student Life

The Amherst Student, Amherst College student newspaper selections  (Amherst College Digital Collection)

Amherst College Course Catalogs (Amherst College Digital Collections)

Cutting, George. Student Life at Amherst College. Its Organizations, Their Membership and History. Amherst, Mass.: Hatch & Williams, 1871.  (Internet Archive)

Allen, Nathan. Physical Culture in Amherst College. Lowell, Mass.: Stone & Huse, 1869.  (Internet Archive)

Hitchcock, Edward. A Manual of the Gymnastic Exercises as Practised by the Junior Class in Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Boston, Mass.: Ginn, Heath & Company, 1884.  (Internet Archive)

Tower, Walter L. “A Glance at Amherst Athletics (1935),” n.d. https://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/holdings/electexts/etext-tower.  (Amherst College website)

Shoop, Max. Sabrina : The Class Goddess of Amherst College. Amherst, Mass.: Max Shoop, 1910.  (Internet Archive)

Smith, Winthrop Hiram; , Halvor Richardson Seward, and John Graham Gibson. Favorite Texts Sabrina; Being a Chronicle of the Life of the Goddess of Amherst College . Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1921.  (Internet Archive)

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. “Sabrina Doesn’t Live Here Any More.” Amherst, Spring 1985.  (Amherst College website)

Alpha Delta Phi Amherst Chapter. Amherst Alpha Delta Phi, 1837-1887. New York, NY: Press of Fleming , Brewster & Alley, 1887.  (Internet Archive)

Songs of Amherst . Northampton, Mass.: Metcalf & Company, 1860.  (Internet Archive)

Amherst College Church of Christ. The Church of Christ in Amherst College, 1901.  (Internet Archive)

Alumni

Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, a publication created for and largely by the alumni of Amherst College, edited and printed by Amherst College:

Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 1 ,1911-1912  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 2, 1912-1913  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 3, 1913-1914  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 4, 1914-1915  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 6, 1916-1917  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 7-9, 1917-1920  (Internet Archive)
Amherst Graduates' Quarterly Volume 10-11, 1920-1922  (Internet Archive)
Index to the complete Amherst Graduates' Quarterly, Volumes 1-38, 1911-1948  (Amherst College website)

Amherst magazine reports on the College and its community:

Amherst magazine, 1998-present  (Amherst College website)
Index to the Amherst Alumni News and the Amherst magazine, Volume 1-56, 1911-2004  (Amherst College website)

Montague, W. L., ed. Biographical Record of the Alumni of Amherst College, During its First Half Century, 1821-1871. Amherst, Mass., 1883.   (Internet Archive)

Montague, W. L., ed. Biographical Record of the Alumni and Non-Graduates of Amherst College, 1871-1896. Amherst, Mass.: Carpenter & Morehouse, 1901.  (Internet Archive)

Crowell, Edward P. Record of the Services of Graduates and Non-Graduates of Amherst College, in the Union Army or Navy during the War of the Rebellion. Amherst, Mass.: Amherst College, 1905.  (Internet Archive)

Niijima, Jō, and Arthur Sherburne Hardy. Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Neesima. Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.  (Internet Archive)

MacNeill, Allan Benjamin, and John Mantel Clapp. Amherst Memories: a Collection of Undergraduate Verse of Amherst College. Springfield, Mass.: Springfield Print and Binding Company, 1890. (Internet Archive)

Riley, Herbert E. An Amherst Book. A Collection of Stories, Poems, Songs, Sketches and Historical Articles of Alumni and Undergraduates of Amherst College. New York, NY: The Republic Press, 1896.  (Internet Archive)

Ball, Walter Savage. Amherst Life: Selections from the Undergraduate Publications at Amherst College. Amherst, Mass.: W.C. Howland, 1970.  (Internet Archive)