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Lehigh History: Timeline & Histories

Celebrating Lehigh's Sesquicentennial Anniversary, 2015-2016

Timelines and Chronologies

Lehigh University History Chronology, 1864-1993
The Twenty Year Book of Lehigh University
Publication Date: 1866-1886
The Lehigh Story by William (Billy) Cornelius
Publication Date: 1946
Seventy-five Years of Lehigh University; a Chronology by William (Billy) Cornelius
Publication Date: 1942

Histories:

Register of the officers & students of the Lehigh University
Publication Date: 1866
The Lehigh University, its Origins and Aims: An Historical Discourse by William B. Stevens
Publication Date: 1869
The Lehigh University, a Historical Sketch by Edmund Hyde
Publication Date: 1896
Lehigh University by W. Ross Yates
ISBN: 0585203032
Publication Date: 1992-01-01

Athletics and Sports Historical Material

Lehigh Athletics Team Photo Archives: Over a thousand photograph of Lehigh University athletic teams 1880s to 2000s.

Athletics Programs and Publications: 1880s to 2000s programs, rosters, and other publications, inlcuding Lehigh-Lafayette football programs.

Music History Timelines

Histories of the Colleges and Departments

The College of Arts and Science and the Essential Humanities at Lehigh University: a Brief Narrative History by J. Benner and J. Wolfe
Publication Date: 1981
History of the College of Business Administration, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by Carl Allen
Publication Date: 1966
Lehigh University College of Business Administration: a Brief Outline History by Carl Allen
Publication Date: 1957
The Study of Education at Lehigh: College of Education by Robert L. Leight
Publication Date: 1990

College of Education: 100 Years of Excellence by Robert L. Leight, Iveta Silova and Fatih Aktas. 2016.

The Bicentennial: Lehigh University's Contribution to Engineering Education by Alan S. Foust
Publication Date: 1976

History of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University
History of the Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at Lehigh University 1924-2010 by Mikell P. Groover
Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017.
A 150-Year History of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh
A 150-Year History of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh by Prof. Stanley H. Johnson, Emeritus Professor

Planning for 75th Anniversary of Lehigh University and Histories of Several Departments by Lehigh University Faculty
Publication Date: 1941
A History of Biology at Lehigh by Robert Hall
Publication Date: 1945
A History of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (1866-1941) by Robert D. Billinger
Seventy-five Years of Chemistry at Lehigh University by Robert D. Billinger
Call Number: L B598p2b
A Celebration of Chemistry at Lehigh: 100 years of Doctoral, 125 years of Undergraduate, April 5, 1991 by Department of Chemistry
Call Number: SC L Pub 0062

Seventy-Five Years (1940-2015) of Lehigh University's Chemistry Department
Seventy-Five Years (1940-2015) of Lehigh University's Chemistry Department by The Committee:
Ned D. Heindel (Cmt Chair), Jack A. Alhadeff, Gregory Ferguson, Natalie M. Foster, K. Jebrell Glover, Charles S. Kraihanzel (deceased) , Joseph Merkel, James E. Roberts, James E. Sturm, Daniel Zeroka.

An Historical Analysis of the Study of English at Lehigh University, 1865-1909 by Deborah Allan
Call Number: DISS 1995 A417h
Geology at Lehigh University: Its History, 1866-1966 by Bradford Willard
History of the Lehigh University Library, 1878-1965 by James D. Mack
Call Number: L 378 El L521m
The Lehigh University Library, 1877-1977 by James D. Mack
Call Number: L 378 El L521m2
A Seventy-Five Year History of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy at Lehigh University by Joseph B. Reynolds
Ninety-seven Years of Metallurgy at Lehigh University by Allison Butts
Publication Date: 1963
A Look Back, a Leap Forward: the History of Metallurgy and Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University 1866-1990 by Michael Pressler
Call Number: L L697L
History of the Physics Department by James A. McLennan
Publication Date: 2002

History of Graduate Work at Lehigh 1866-1941
History of graduate work at Lehigh from 1866 to 1941, including titles, subjects, author names and statistical information.

The resources below are located in Special Collections Vertical File Collection:

College of Arts and Science Faculty Minutes
Call Number: SC LVF C6945
College of Arts & Science
Call Number: SC LVF C694
College of Business Administration
Call Number: SC LVF C696
The History of Philosophy, Psychology, and Education at Lehigh University
Call Number: SC LVF H675
Psychology Department
Call Number: SC LVF P973