Collection includes specifications, planning documents, design documents, meeting minutes, correspondence, memoranda, clippings and other records relating to the reconstruction of the "History Corner" of the Quadrangle. Architects for the project were Stone, Marraccini and Patterson / Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis.

Files of the History Department, including History Department meetings, minutes, papers relating to the establishment of the Political Science Department, report of the four quarter system, History Club minutes, Army Specialized Training Program of 1941-1945 and other war courses, independent study and a manuscript history of the department. Also included are some papers of Professor Gordon Craig, professor of History at Stanford from 1962-1974.

Class papers and a few senior theses from history classes at Stanford University, 1892-1903 with a few from 1907-08 and 1925-1926. Students include William E. Campbell, Nelle Wood Carlsmith (Mrs. Carl S. Carlsmith), Walter Clark, Alfred P. Fraser, John E. Johnson, Mortimer C. Leventritt, Richard C. McGregor, Walter M. Rose, William Schulte, and Belle McMurtry Young (Mrs. William R. K. Young).

Student analyses of proposed independent studies program, minutes of the Committee on Independent Study Plan, and files regarding the organization and administration of the program.