History department correspondence, memoranda, catalogs, inventories, reports, and minutes; financial records including payrolls, accounts, budgets, invoices, and vouchers; materials pertaining to the department's move from Boardman to West Sibley Hall, and later to McGraw Hall; student records including correspondence, gradebooks, course evaluations, draft deferment requests, applications, and other materials pertaining to study abroad, curriculum, fellowships, scholarships, assistantships, the Admissions Advisory Committee, advanced placement, honors program, prizes, quotas, and graduate study; Summer Session; teaching applications and faculty appointments; department chairman's records of L. Pearce Williams, Paul W. Gates, and others; personnel files; items regarding the Messenger Lecture Series; and related materials.

Includes Honors theses.