Collections at the Gotlieb Center

Collections at the Gotlieb Center

  • Boston University Archives: including papers of administrators, faculty, and staff, as well as yearbooks and catalogs.
  • History of Nursing Archives: resource of nearly two hundred collections from various nurses and nursing organizations, chronicling the history of the nursing profession from its beginnings to the present day.
  • Contemporary Cultural Figures: personal papers of twentieth and twenty-first century public figures in the fields of civil & human rights, literature, poetry & criticism, journalism, diplomacy & national affairs, drama, music & film,
  • Rare Books: significant collections of poetry, literature, American history, Islamic history and culture.

Boston University ArchivesSpace

Please visit the Boston University ArchivesSpace to search collection-level records and finding aids to the Gotlieb Center collections. The ArchivesSpace discovery system contains descriptions of unique materials including manuscripts, photographs, audio and video recordings, printed material, correspondence, and more.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers

The civil rights leader earned his PhD from Boston University’s School of Theology in 1955. Donated in 1964, the extensive King Collection includes Dr. King’s manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, printed material, financial and legal papers, a small number of photographs, and other items dating from 1947 to 1963. Facsimiles of select materials are available on permanent display in the Martin Luther King Jr. Reading Room on the 3rd floor of the Mugar Memorial Library

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View contents of this collection in the Boston University ArchivesSpace

Howard Thurman & Sue Bailey Thurman Papers

The Howard Thurman collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, subject files, printed material, audio recordings, and other items. The Sue Bailey Thurman collection consists of manuscripts, subject files, correspondence, personal memorabilia, and photographs.

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The Elie Wiesel Archive

At the time of his death in 2016, Elie Wiesel was Professor Emeritus at Boston University, where he had served as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities since 1976. The Wiesel papers document the life and professional work of the prolific writer, journalist, scholar and international public figure, and contains source material of interest to scholars of Wiesel’s life and work, the Holocaust, modern Jewish Studies and other subjects.

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Watch videos of Elie Wiesel’s public lectures at Boston University

Partisan Review

Founded in 1934, Partisan Review magazine was one of the most significant cultural literary journals in the U.S. Learn more and view issues from 1934-2003.

Learn more about Partisan Review and view issues online