If you want to use the in-person resources listed here or need help finding more information for your research project, email library@transy.edu to schedule an appointment with Special Collections.
Jane Haselden Papers. MSC 38. Transylvania University.
Hamilton Female College Collection at Lexington Public Library.
“Hocker Female College.” The College Courant 5, no. 10 (1869): 153–153.
"Hamilton Female College." IN: Ranck, G. Washington. Guide to Lexington, Kentucky: with notices historical and descriptive of places and objects of interest, and a summary of the advantages and resources of the city and vicinity. Lexington, Ky.: Transylvania Printing and Publishing Company. 1883. p 44.
Hamilton College Collection. TUA-6. Transylvania University. [List of categories, not item level]
Catalogs of Hamilton College, [Year Range]
Catalogs of Kentucky University [Year Range]
"The Crimson" Yearbooks [Year Range]
"Hamilton College (Kentucky)" Wikipedia. 2024.
"Hocker Female College." History of the Restoration Movement. c 2015.
Hollingsworth, Randolph. "Hamilton Female College Delegation in Lexington's 1916 Suffrage Parade." H-Kentucky H-Net's Network on Kentucky History. 4/24/2021.
Wright, John D. "Hamilton College." Kentucky Encyclopedia.
Lewis, Alvin Fayette and United States. Bureau of Education. History of Higher Education In Kentucky. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899.
Wright. Transylvania: Tutor to the West. pp. 275-76. pp.360-61
While not directly related to Transylvania or Hamilton, the following publications are just a few scholarly perspectives on themes that relate to Hamilton College's history. Some of these stand-out themes are co-educational history and pedagogy, race and class in higher education, religious affiliation, and feminist/suffragist movements in colleges and universities.
Cummins, D. Duane. The Disciples Colleges: A History. St. Louis, Mo.: CBP Press, 1987.
Call number: LC568 .C86 1987
Hevel, Michael S. “Preparing for the Politics of Life: An Expansion of the Political Dimensions of College Women’s Literary Societies.” History of Education Quarterly 54, no. 4 (n.d.): 486–515.
Jabour, Anya. Scarlett’s Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
McCandless, Amy Thompson. The Past in the Present: Women’s Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century American South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Call number: LC1756 .M24 1999
McEuen, Melissa A., and Thomas H. Appleton, eds. Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015
Prentice, Alison, and Marjorie Theobald. Women Who Taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Radke-Moss, Andrea G. Bright Epoch: Women & Coeducation in the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. .
Tyack, David B., and Elisabeth Hansot. Learning Together : A History of Coeducation in American Schools. New Haven, New York: Yale University Press ; Russell Sage Foundation, 1990.
Call number: LB3066 .T93 1990