Archives Month 2012

Exhibit installation on the 1st floor

"Student Voices in Print: A Selection of Student Publications from the UMBC University Archives" showcases five student publications including The Retriever Weekly, Voices, Bartleby, Dialogue, and The Red Brick. The exhibit includes selections from the University Archives - photographs, archival documents, and highlights from the publications are featured. Reproductions of the first issue of each publication are available at the exhibit cases for visitors to browse. The exhibit will be up through November in the Library Rotunda (by the elevators on the first floor).

Reference book display

UMBC history is taking over the Reference department's monthly book display! This month you can browse (and check out) books about campus protests and student activism. The full list of books available is listed below.

Homecoming

Archivist Lindsey Loeper will be displaying older copies of the UMBC student newspaper in all of its various forms - as UMBC News, The Retriever, and The Retriever Weekly - at the Retriever Weekly Reunion on Saturday October 13 from 2-4pm (register and see full even listing here).

Other resources

Retriever Fever! Visit for more information on UMBC's 2012 Homecoming celebrations, October 10-13

Archives Month webpage on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference website (link updated 2016-12-13)

American Archives Month at the Society of American Archivists (link updated 2016-12-13)

Reference Display - Archives Month 2012

University student activism

• Freedom's web: student activism in an age of cultural diversity by Robert A. Rhoads
• Black students in the ivory tower: African American student activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990 by Wayne Glasker
• other alliance: student protest in West Germany and the United States in the global sixties by Martin Klimke
• Taking back the academy!: history of activism, history as activism edited by Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion
• Protest! Student activism in America edited by Julian Foster and Durward Long
• Student protest: the sixties and afteredited by Gerard J. DeGroot
• The free speech movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik
• Freedom�s orator: Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s by Robert Cohen
• Rebellion in the university by Seymour Martin Lipset
• Right on: a documentary on student protest by Maryl Levine and John Naisbitt
• Teach-ins, U.S.A.; reports, opinions, documents edited by Louis Menashe and Ronald Radosh
• Revolt on the campus by Medford Stanton
• The shadow university: the betrayal of liberty on America�s campuses by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate
• Sitting in and speaking out: student movements in the American South, 1960-1970 by Jeffrey A. Turner
• Student political activism: an international handbook edited by Philip G. Altback
• Undaunted by the fight: Spelman College and the civil rights movement, 1957/1967 by Harry G. Lefever
• Children of privilege: student revolt in the sixties: a study of student movements in Canada, the United States, and West Germany by Cyril Levitt
• Student protest, 1960-1970: an analysis of the issues and speeches by Donald E. Phillips
• I lived inside the campus revolution by William Tulio Divale, with James Joseph
• Campus life: undergraduate cultures from the end of the eighteenth century to the present by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
• Free speech on campus by Martin P. Golding
• Radicalizing the ebony tower: Black colleges and the Black freedom struggle in Mississippi by Joy Ann Williamson