The Mount Holyoke College History Department Records consist of photocopied pages from the Llamarada, the College yearbook; articles; lists; memoranda; charts; notes; press releases; brochures; flyers; newspaper clippings; reports; meeting minutes; correspondence; announcements; questionnaires; surveys; financial records; examinations; syllabi; interview abstracts; student papers; posters; and photographs. The records contain articles written by Professors Nelli Neilson and Ellen D. Ellis entitled, "History and Aims of the Department" and "Scope of the Department." A paper entitled "The Teaching of History at Mount Holyoke, 1837-1937" is also included. Lists of student honors theses topics are held in the records as are memoranda and notes regarding suggestions for the department. The records also contain information about the need for students in history during and after World War II in addition to information pertaining to enrollment trends. Advertising materials, including flyers, posters, announcements, and brochures, pertain to the department itself and to special events in the department such as lectures, colloquia, and conferences. The annual reports of the department to the President of the College are also included in the records, and these contain information about department activities, faculty activities and research, enrollment and course registration trends, course and curriculum revisions, changes in personnel, lectures, graduate students, majors, and honor students. Minutes from faculty meetings can also be found in the records, and these contain information regarding student work, needs of the department, curriculum, examinations, faculty work, interdepartmental majors, courses in the department, graduate students, finances, and the department budget. The correspondence contained in the records mainly pertains to daily occurrences in the department but also pertains to special events, such as lectures and the Centennial Celebration (1937). There is also correspondence regarding major and minor students, jobs held by graduates, employment opportunities, course and curriculum changes, graduate work, graduate admissions, faculty positions, reading lists, advanced placement courses and credit, faculty work, and honor students. Correspondence is mainly between faculty members. Major correspondents are Nellie Neilson, Norma Adams, Meribeth E. Cameron, Fred Cramer, and Wilma Pugh. Information regarding the American Culture major and other interdepartmental majors can be found in the records in addition to reviews of curriculum and discussions of reductions in courses in the department. The records also include material relating to fellowships and prizes. Analyses of grades are available in the records along with entrance and comprehensive examinations from Mount Holyoke and other colleges, and examinations and syllabi from various courses. The records also contain student papers and abstracts of interviews conducted by students for a course in the department. Lists of graduate students and history majors are available in the records in addition to lists of MA thesis topics. The photographs contained in the records depict students, faculty, and staff in classroom scenes.