• Collection Description
• A. History - Bibliographies/Reserve Notes
• B. History - General
• C. History - 1819-1830
• D. History - 1830-1857
• E. History - 1857-1900
• F. History - 1900-
• G. Alumni
• H. Army Air Corps
• I. Caldwell/KCW/Women's Department
• J. Central University (Richmond)
• K. Danville
• L. Fund Raising
• M. Legal History
• N. Library
• O. Miscellaneous
• P. Old Centre
• Q. Presbyterian Church

CC-33 Miscellaneous Manuscripts/Centre History contains various items discussing the College's history. Among the topics covered are Caldwell College, Kentucky College for Women, the Women's Department, consolidation of Centre-Central University, and topics dating from specific time periods. Church related subjects, general histories of Centre, education, Danville-Boyle County history, and bibliographies are also found in the collection. Included are booklets, leaflets, rough copies, essays, and loose-leaf papers. Dates covered vary from 1819 to 1969; however all of these dates are not individually covered in the materials. All of the materials are alphabetically arranged by folder and materials within the folder also arranged alphabetically.

• Historical data materials from the files of Raymond L. Handlin (n.d.)
• List of documents pertaining to Centre College (n.d.)
• List of materials on Danville and Centre College available at Western Kentucky State College (n.d.)
• Research articles on the history of Centre College (n.d.)
• Calendar of documents relating to the history of Centre College in the Breckinridge Family Papers, Library of Congress
• Centre College Chronology
• Centre through the years (chart) by Clarence Wyatt
• Notes on historical items

• Allen, C.E. "Centre College" (n.d.)
• Central University of Kentucky: Origin (n.d.)
• Centre College (n.d.)
• Cowan, J.R. "A brief history of Centre College" (1944)
• Historical data(1964)
• History of Centre College (n.d.)
• The kind of education democracy needs (n.d.)
• Turck, Charles J. "Centre College" (1936)
• Turck, Charles J. "Centre College of Kentucky" in Kentucky
• Progress Magazine (1930)
• Turck, Charles J. "The story of Centre College" (1928)
• Blakely, J.C. "A history of Centre College"
• Bruce, George Howard "What Centre College has done for me" (n.d.)
• Centre College (1950)
• Centre College (n.d.)
• Gifford, J.D. "Sal Fayne salutes: Centre College" (1952) radio program
• Hewlett, James H. "A brief history of the Kentucky Association of Colleges and Universities" (1945) reprint from Southern Association Quarterly
• Hewlett, James H. "Centre College 125th anniversary" in In Kentucky (1944)
• Hewlett, James H. "Historical sketch of Centre College in Kentucky" reprint from Southern Association Quarterly (1941)
• The hope of democracy is an adequate leadership (n.d.)
• Lingle, Walter L. "A day at Centre College" in Christian Observer (1939)
• Montgomery, R. Ames "History of Centre College goes back to pioneer days" (n.d.)
• "25th anniversary - Centre College: Radio talk (n.d.)
• What Centre College has done (n.d.) quotations from various sources
• Wilson, Woodrow "Statement to Alumni Association of Princeton" (1903)
• Yerkes, John W. "Some words about Centre College" (1922)
• Craig, Hardin. Centre College of Kentucky (typed draft of book)

• Brown, John "Excerpt from letter ... to his brother, Dr. Samuel Brown in Philadelphia" (1819) photocopy
• Cooke, James T. "Location of Dr. Rice's farm" (1935)
• The founding of Centre College (n.d.)
• Hewlett, James H. Centre College in Kentucky, 1819-1830 (1944)

• Groves, Walter A. Centre College - the Second Phase, 1830-1857 (1950)
• Turck, Charles J. "Centre College, 1846-1850" (1930)

• Caldwell, I. "Centre College, 1857-1869" (1942) paper read before Ye Rounde Table
• Smith, J. Peter "Centre College, 1860-1865" (1959)

• Blanton, L.H. Consolidation of Central University and Centre College (1901)
• Centre College is busily preparing for the 111 session (1930)
• Newlin, Edgar C. "Centre College in 1969 with emphasis on the next five years" (1969)
• Review of institutional developments from 1960-1973

• Centre's contribution to leadership of the nation (n.d.)
• The contributions of Centre College to education (1935)
• A memorandum on Centre and Who's Who in America (n.d.)

• Brief history of the Army Air Corps
• Cleaves, Mildred "Old Centre reconverts to peacetime production: revamped curriculum to aid returning servicemen" in In Kentucky (1946)

• Chronology (1961)
• History of KCW (n.d.)
• History of the Women's Department of Centre College of Kentucky (1937)
• Women's Department of Centre College: Sketch of the College (n.d.)
• Pearson, Sara J. "If you count the girls: the (administrative) merger of Centre College and Kentucky College for Women" (1995) (photocopy of typescript)

• Dorris, Jonathan T. Central University, Richmond, Kentucky (1934) reprint from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

• Centre College and Danville (1952)
• Centre College as an exponent of Danville industry (n.d.)
• Danville promotion (n.d.) incomplete
• Proclamation, City of Danville to Centre College (1967)
• Economic impact of Centre College on Danville (1952)

• The record of Centre College

• Turck, Charles J. "The legal history of Centre College" (n.d.)

• Sketch of the Centre College Library in The Presbyterian (1937)
• Sketch of the Centre College Library (1937)

• Horky House, Craik House, & McMortry, R.G. "Centre College, John Todd Stuart & Abraham Lincoln"
• "Greeting from Danville" in Old Centre (n.d.)

• Adams, Michael F. "Old Centre: revisited and reborn"
• Old Centre Chronology (1984)
• Application for placement on National Register of Historic Places (1990)

• Centre College is a Christian college (n.d.)
• Groves, Walter A. "A school of the prophets at Danville" (1953) paper read before the Filson Club
• Turck, Charles J. "Education and Presbyterianism in Kentucky (1933) address delivered at 150th anniversary of establishment of Presbyterianism in Kentucky, Harrodsburg, Ky.
• The Synods and Centre College
• "Centre College & the Presbyterians" by Norman L. Snider from Ky. His Soc Reg.
• "Centre College and the Presbyterian Churches in the Spragens Era" by Eric Mount (typescript - 2 copies)