Special Collections and Archives

To vote is not enough

Digging into the collection of Dayton suffragette Katharine Kennedy Brown

Posted on March 10, 2020 by Wright State Media Team

Katharine Brown worked tirelessly for the betterment of women, both in the community and in the political arena. Continue reading →

Young researchers dig into history at Wright State’s Archives

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Jim Hannah

Miami Valley School students visited the Wright State Special Collections and Archives to research primary sources for school projects. Continue reading →

Empowering student success and preservation of archives

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Kim Patton

Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation awarded a $75,000 grant to support the future Wright State Archives Center and Wright State students in engineering and business. Continue reading →

GE features Wright State Special Collections and Archives in latest aviation blog post

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Seth Bauguess

Call it luck, coincidence or divine providence, but just up the road from GE Aviation’s Evendale, Ohio, headquarters sits Wright State University’s Special Collections and Archives, home to the Wright Brothers Collection. Continue reading →

Strolling down memory lane

Retired Wright State professor Gary Barlow helps preserve the university’s priceless history with his gift to the Archives Center

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Kim Patton

In appreciation of his gift to the Discover Your Story campaign, one of the rooms in the Archives Center will be named the Dr. Gary Barlow Conference Room. Continue reading →

Saving our history

Linda Black-Kurek ’78 fulfills her passion for the Dayton community and her alma mater by supporting the new Wright State University Archives Center

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Kim Patton

The exhibit gallery in the future Archives Center will be named the Linda Black-Kurek Family Foundation Exhibit Gallery where rotating exhibitions will showcase the depth of the collections. Continue reading →

Historical handwriting

Wright State Archives giving the world online access to the diaries of Wright brothers’ father, Milton

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Jim Hannah

Sixty years of diary entries by Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville, will be published online by Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading →

Bringing history to life

Wright State University launches $6.5 million fundraising campaign to create a new home for priceless archives

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Kim Patton

Discover Your Story will transform the former corporate headquarters of the Wright-Patt Credit Union at 2455 Presidential Drive into the new home of Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading →

Dissenting opinion

Wright State part of national effort to archive history of student activism and dissent

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Jim Hannah

Wright State is participating in Project STAND, which will create an online clearinghouse of digital and analog papers, manuscripts, diaries, photographs and other content related to student activism and dissent. Continue reading →