Communities in Mercer
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Current and past campus publications including university-hosted journals, yearbooks, and course catalogs.
Titles over the years have included The Hypo, Vital Signs, and Lifeline.
Macon campus yearbook
Early yearbooks for Mercer University, published annually by the fraternities.
Early Macon campus serial
Macon campus newspaper
Publications under this name in Mercer's history have included a literary magazine and an alumni magazine
Early Macon campus newspaper
Course catalogs.
Featured faculty papers, research projects, and library exhibits.
Faculty research from Laura M. Botts, Assistant Dean for Archives and Digital Initiatives, Mercer University Library
Research by Elizabeth Harper, assistant professor of English at Mercer University
Faculty, University Library
Faculty, University Library
Research by Meenakshi Sharma, assistant professor of Science Education at Mercer University
Research by Leslie Street, Director of the Mercer Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
Research by Dr. Bridget G. Trogden, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Director of QEP
Student papers and research projects, including theses and dissertations, BEAR Day, and the Atlanta Research Conference
The Atlanta Research Conference is an annual event on the Atlanta campus in which students present their scholarly and creative works
This course will examine southern foodways from a critical perspective. We will study the region’s culinary history, the important role of poverty and climate in developing southern food, the relationship between food and race/class/gender dynamics, food as a sign of regional identity, and the cultural representation of southern food.
Contains theses and dissertations completed as part of university degree requirements.
Interviews, transcripts, and other items that supplement theses and dissertations.
These theses are restricted, and cannot be viewed by anyone until they come out of embargo.
Items from the archives at the Monroe F. Swilley (Atlanta) and Jack Tarver (Macon) Libraries.
Collections related to the history of Mercer University, including, photographs, historical documents, and athletics.
These are handwritten or other unpublished documents.
University documents dating from 1833 to 1890s, including commencement programs, literary society materials, and oversized items from the early 20th century.
These are published documents from Mercer's past that were not ongoing publications.
Photos, yearbooks, and catalogs for the classes of 1970 & 1971
Highlighted items include Georgia Baptist church and association minutes, the Ken Medema collection, and WMU Mission Messengers from 1895-1921.
Minutes and histories of Baptist associations in Georgia
Catalogues from Cherokee Baptist College in Cassville, GA.
These are minutes and histories of Baptist churches in Georgia. Originals are held in Special Collections, Mercer University, Macon, GA.
Items from the Ken Medema Collection, which includes choral arrangements, business records, and audio-visual recordings.
Sermons and papers
Women's Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia's monthly publication.
This collection showcases artifacts of the ancient Holy Land collected by Dr. Y. Lynn Holmes
2021 Exhibit
An Exhibit From the Collection of Yulssus Lynn Holmes
An Exhibit From the Collection of Yulssus Lynn Holmes
An Exhibit From the Collection of Yulssus Lynn Holmes
An Exhibit From the Collection of Yulssus Lynn Holmes
Collections related to the history of Tift College (1849-1986), a women's college located in Forsyth, GA.
These are handwritten or other unpublished documents.
Images of Tift College
Postcards from Tift College, Forsyth, Georgia
Catalogs, Yearbooks, and Journals
A collection of Tift College yearbooks
These are items held by Mercer's Special Collections that are not specifically related to Mercer.
Collections for reading room use only.
Eleven scrapbooks of biographical clippings about Baptist ministers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Donations of scholarly writing
Original records of the First Baptist Church in Stockton (Chautauqua), New York.
Papers of Ethicist David P. Gushee