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- Preface
Buildings and Grounds
- Buildings
- Grounds
- Technology
  - Electricity
  - The Telephone
Collections and Curiosities
- Autograph Books & Scrapbooks
- A Bust of Mary Somerville
- The Folklore Foundation
- The Morris and Adele Bergreen Albert Einstein Collection at Vassar College
- Hidden Histories
- The French Tank
- Mastodon
- Natural History Museum
- Plaster Casts
- "Prexy on the Half-Shell"
- Tapestries
  - Cupid and Psyche
- Vassar College Seal
- The First in the World?
Curriculum
- Original Course Catalogue
- A History of the Curriculum 1865-1970s
- The Conservation Division
- Dance at Vassar
- The Experimental Theatre of Vassar College
- Vassar's First Computer
- Preparatory School
- School of Art & Music
- Teaching Evolution at Vassar College
Distinguished Alumnae/i
- Ruth Adams
- Jean Anderson
- Ruth Benedict
- Elizabeth Bentley
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Harriot Stanton Blatch
- Marvin Breckinridge
- Mary Steichen Calderone
- Elizabeth Williams Champney
- Eleanor Clark
- Evalyn A. Clark
- Anne Cleveland
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Florence Cushing
- Crystal Eastman
- Emily Jordan Folger
- Caroline E. Furness
- Gertrude Garnsey
- Patricia Goldman-Rakic
- Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
- Mary Virginia Heinlein
- Gladys Hobby
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Adella Prentiss Hughes
- Mary Augusta Jordan
- Helen Kenyon
- Virginia Kirkus
- Christine Ladd-Franklin
- Mary Fisher Langmuir
- Julia Lathrop
- Helen Drusilla Lockwood
- Lois Long
- Nancy Harkness Love
- Anne MacKay
- Antonia Maury
- Mildred McAfee
- Mary McCarthy
- Ella McCaleb
- Inez Milholland
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Ruth Crawford Mitchell
- Princess Oyama
- Margaretta Palmer
- Louise Seaman Bechtel
- Ellen Swallow Richards
- Josephine Roche
- Blanchette Rockefeller
- Constance Mayfield Rourke
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Belle Skinner
- Barbara Stimson
- Julia Stimson
- C. Mildred Thompson
- Baroness Uriu
- Margaret Floy Washburn
- Jean Webster
- Ella Weed
- Mary Watson Whitney
- Laura Johnson Wylie
Documents and Views of Early Vassar
- Lydia Booth
- Vassar's Communications to the Board of Trustees
- Top Hat Scandal
- Hannah Lyman
  - Hannah Lyman: The Lady's Principles
- Emma Church
- William Smith: Steward to Vassar College
- Maria Dickinson McGraw: A Glimpse Backwards
- "Diabolus": "Commencement at Vassar Female College"
- Letters Home: Social Life at Vassar 1865-1880
- John Raymond: "A College for Women, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y."
- Mary Augusta Jordan: "Spacious Days at Vassar College"
- Vassar Visitors
- The First Students
- A Sad Recollection from 1868
- "The Rose and Silver-gray"
- “The best human benefactor of WOMAN,” Matthew Vassar and Sarah Josepha Hale
Faculty
- Original Faculty
- Prominent Faculty
Interviews and Reflections
- Christine Vassar Tall: The Story of One British Evacuee
- Carl N. Degler: "Vassar College"
- Chapters from Elizabeth A. Daniels's "Bridges to the World: Henry Noble MacCracken and Vassar College"
  - The Disappointing First Thrust of Euthenics
  - MacCracken's "Dream Child": Sarah Lawrence College
- Claudia Lynn Thomas '71:Takeover of Main Building, 1969
- Conversations about Vassar History with Historian Elizabeth A. Daniels
  - Conversation One
  - Conversation Two
  - Conversation Three
  - Conversation Four
- Elizabeth M. Drouilhet's Convocation Speech, 1976
- Hunting Down Vassar History
- Interview with Winifred "Tim" Asprey '38
- Interview with Elizabeth Moffatt Drouilhet
- Interview with Ruth Timm
- Informal Interview with Mary McCarthy
- Informal Interview with Head Gardener Martin Pinnavaia
- Interview with Professor Emeritus of Drama Evert Sprinchorn
- Sophomore Trig Ceremonies
- President MacCracken Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Royal Holloway College: A Memoir
- The Suffrage Movement at Vassar
- Twas the Night of the Sit-In: A Parody in Verse
- Ron Patkus on Vassar College Special Collections
- Vassar Female College and Sarah Josepha Hale
Notable Events
- Greek Plays
- Phi Beta Kappa, Mu Chapter of Vassar
- Vassar's First Intercollegiate Debate
- The Founding of The Seven Sisters
- Fire of 1918
- The Vassar Summer Institute
- Cooperative Living Projects at Vassar
- Coeducation
  - A History of Coeducation
  - The Vassar-Yale Study
- Faculty Shows
Presidents
- Henry Noble MacCracken
  - Informal Interview with Maisry MacCracken
  - Henry Noble MacCracken: The Student Movement
- James Monroe Taylor
  - James Monroe Taylor: "Vassar's Contribution to Educational Theory and Practice"
- Milo P. Jewett
- John H. Raymond
- Samuel L. Caldwell
- Sarah Gibson Blanding
- Alan Simpson
- Virginia B. Smith
- Frances Daly Fergusson
Student Organizations and Activities
- Athletics
- Student Publications
- The Barefoot Monkeys
- Philaletheis
- The Society for Religious Inquiry
- Vassar Radio/WVKR-FM
- Vassar Student Association (VSA)
Vassar Off Campus
- Arlington
- Lake Mohonk
- Lincoln Center
- The Vassar Bank
- John Burroughs
Vassar Traditions
- Class Trees
- Convocation
- Daisy Chain
- Founder's Day
- Senior Parlor
- Vassar Proms
Matthew Vassar—The Founder and the Founding
- Springside
- The Vassars at Home
- Catharine Valentine Vassar
- Matthew Vassar
- "Monumental Honors": The Founder's Wish Fulfilled After 139 Years
- More Than a Brewer
Vassar Myths & Legends
Vassar in Wartime
- Civil War
- World War I
- The Vassar Training Camp for Nurses
- Vassar Relief Unit, WWI
- World War II
- Viet Nam
- Forrest Cousens: A Short History of the Vassar Veterans and Some Memories
Board of Trustees
- A Brief Guide to Vassar's Charter Trustees
- First Women Trustees
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Local Trustee
- Board of Trustees Chairmen, 1861-2014
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Vassar Encyclopedia, by the Vassar Historian