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The
following list of books and other publications has been compiled
to guide those interested in MIT's history. For further information
about MIT, please explore the Archives'
web site.
A GOOD PLACE TO START: A short list of sources THE LONG LIST: This is not a comprehensive bibliography; it is a work in progress. Suggestions for additions are welcome. History (General) | History (Departments/Programs) | MIT Presidents | MIT Culture | MIT Spaces | Reports and Proceedings | Women and Minorities | MIT and World Wars I and II | Oral Histories | Institute Web Resources MIT Libraries' catalog (Barton) call numbers follow the citations; a search by call number will give all MIT Libraries locations. Sources without call numbers are available in the Institute Archives reading room, if not otherwise noted. ___________ HISTORY (General) Return to top Stratton, Julius A., and Loretta H. Mannix. Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2005. Wylie,
Francis E. M.I.T. in Perspective: A Pictorial History
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1975. Prescott,
Samuel C. When M.I.T. Was "Boston Tech," 1861-1916.
Cambridge, Mass.: Technology Press, 1954. Founding
documents of MIT, The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; A Brief Account of Its Foundation,
Character, and Equipment. Boston:
Published by the Institute for use at the St. Louis Exposition,
1904. Bruce, James L. "The Rogers Building and Huntington Hall." Proceedings of the Bostonian Society and Report of the Annual Meeting, January 21, 1941, pp. 29-38. MIT's move from Boston to Cambridge in June 1916.
Mid-century;
The Social Implications of Scientific Progress. Verbatim
account of the discussion held at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology on the occasion of its Mid-century Convocation, March
31, April 1 and April 2, 1949. Edited and annotated by John
E. Burchard. Published jointly by the Technology Press, Cambridge,
and Wiley, New York, 1950. Mid-Century
Convocation, 1949. Maslanka,
John S. “A Century of Technology.”
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1961. MIT
125 Years. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT,
1986. Cambridge
and MIT: Chronologies. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Museum; Office of Government and Community Relations;
Public Service Center; Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office, 1992. OpenDOOR:
Ideas and Voices from MIT. "History and Culture,"
November/December 2002. ___________ HISTORY (Departments/Programs) Return to top Guttig, John V. Guttag ed. The Electron and the Bit: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1902-2002. Cambridge, Mass.: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, MIT, 2005. Mattill, John. The Flagship Diversified, 1991-2004: The David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, 2004. Abelmann,
Walter H., ed. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences
and Technology: The First 25 Years 1970-1995.
Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 2004. Blackmer,
Donald L. M. The MIT Center for International Studies: The
Founding Years, 1951-1969. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Center
for International Studies, 2002. Levey, Debbie, ed. The Only Constant Is Change: 135 Years of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Millennium Colloquium and Alumni Day, March 19-22, 2000. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000. XIII-A,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: One Hundred Years.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Department of Ocean Engineering, 2000. Garfinkel,
Simson. Architects of the Information Society: 35 Years
of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. Freeman,
Eva C., ed. MIT
Lincoln Laboratory: Technology in the National Interest.
Lexington, Mass.: Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1995. Goldblith,
Samuel A. Of Microbes and Molecules: Food Technology, Nutrition
and Applied Biology at M.I.T., 1873-1988. Trumbull, Conn.:
Food & Nutrition Press, 1995. Mattill,
John. The Flagship: The M.I.T. School of Chemical Engineering
Practice, 1916-1991. Cambridge, Mass.:
David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, MIT, 1991. Reintjes,
J. Francis. Numerical Control: Making a New Technology. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Bever,
Michael B. Metallurgy and Materials Science and Engineering
at MIT: 1865-1988. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT, 1988. Brand,
Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.
New York: Penguin Books, 1988. Chewning, John Andrew. "William Robert Ware and the Beginnings of Architectural Education in the United States, 1861-1881." Ph.D. dissertation, MIT, 1986. Wildes,
Karl. A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at MIT, 1882-1982. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. The
History of Electrical Engineering at MIT, with Professor
Karl Wildes and John Fitch [videorecording]. Nuclear
Engineering at M.I.T.: The First 25 Years. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT, 1984. Liepmann,
Klaus. "Music at M.I.T.: A Short History of Music at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Unpublished, 1980. Redmond, Kent C., and Thomas M. Smith. Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer. Bedford, Mass.: Digital Press, 1980. The
Improbable Achievement: Chemical Engineering at MIT. Cambridge,
Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1979. Shrock,
Robert Rakes. Geology at M.I.T., 1865-1965: A History
of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1977. R.L.E.:
1946 + 20. Cambridge, Mass.: Research Laboratory of Electronics,
MIT, 1966. Shillaber,
Caroline. Massachusetts Institute of Technology School
of Architecture and Planning, 1861-1961: A Hundred Year Chronicle.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1963. A
History of the Departments of Chemistry and Physics at the M.I.T.,
1865-1933. Cambridge, Mass.: Technology
Press, 1933. ___________ MIT PRESIDENTS Return to topTerms of the presidents and links to brief
biographies Inaugural Addresses of MIT Presidents William Barton Rogers John Daniel Runkle Tyler, H. W. “John Daniel Runkle, 1822-1902.” Technology Review 4 (July 1902): 277-306. Francis
Amasa Walker James
Mason Crafts Crafts,
James Mason. “Address on Behalf of the Faculty.”
Technology Review 3 (January 1901): 36-49. [MIT Corporation’s] Memorial to President Crafts. Technology Review 20 (January 1918): 58. Henry Smith Pritchett Flexner, Abraham. Henry S. Pritchett, a Biography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Richard Cockburn
Maclaurin Pearson, Henry Greenleaf. Richard Cockburn
Maclaurin: President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
1909-1920. New York: Macmillan, 1937. Ernest Fox Nichols Samuel Wesley Stratton Karl Taylor Compton Q171.C738 Stratton, Julius A. “Karl Taylor Compton: Educator and Administrator.” Technology Review 57 (December 1954): 85-86. Killian, James R., Jr. “Karl Taylor Compton: The Man.” Technology Review 57 (December 1954): 87-88, 116, 118. Resolutions of the MIT Corporation [on KTC’s death]. Technology Review 57 (November 1954): 12. James Rhyne Killian Killian, James Rhyne. The Education
of a College President: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 1985. Killian, James Rhyne. Sputnik, Scientists,
and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President
for Science and Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1982. James Killian Memorial Service booklet [includes excerpts of comments]. Julius Adams Stratton Q181.S911 [Includes his inaugural address delivered June 15, 1959; Centennial Convocation address delivered at MIT, April 9, 1961; and several MIT commencement speeches; as well as speeches outside the Institute.] Obituary. MIT Tech Talk, June 29, 1994. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1994/jun29/37367.html “In Memoriam.” Research
Laboratory of Electronics web page Julius Stratton Memorial Service booklet [includes excerpts of comments]. Howard Wesley Johnson Warsh, David. “A Tribute to MIT's
Howard Johnson.” Boston Globe article,
June 1, 1999. Johnson, Howard Wesley. Holding the
Center: Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. Jerome Bert Wiesner “A
Random Walk through the Twentieth Century.” [electronic
resource] Cambridge: MIT, 1996. Rosenblith,
Walter A., ed. Jerry Wiesner: Scientist, Statesman,
Humanist: Memories and Memoirs. Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press, 2003. Obituary. MIT News Office, October
26, 1994. “In Memoriam.” Research
Laboratory of Electronics web page Jerome Wiesner Memorial Service booklet [includes excerpts of comments]. Laya Wiesner Memorial Service booklet [includes excerpts of comments]. Paul Edward Gray Remembering the Paul Gray Years." Technology Review 94 (January 1991): MIT11-MIT17. “MIT Corporation Chairman Paul E.
Gray to Complete Service as Chairman in June 1997,
Will Continue to Teach and Advise Undergraduates.” MIT
News Office, June 7, 1996. "A Prespective on Change: An Interview
with Paul Gray, '54." Technology
Review 100 (July 1997): MIT1-MIT5. Charles Marstiller Vest Inaugural address, May 10, 1991.
Tech Talk, May 15, 1991, pp. 9-10. and Watts, Lisa. “Priorities for the
New President.” Technology Review 93 (November-December1990):
MIT9-MIT19. Manning, Kenneth R., ed. MIT: Shaping the
Future. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991. Profile. The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, May 28, 2000. Profile, list of speeches and interviews.
MIT News Office. Vest, Charles M. Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press October 2004. [http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262220725] MIT 1990-2004: The Vest Years. [Timeline.] MIT News Office. Susan Hockfield Inaugural address, May 6, 2005 Keynote address, Massachusetts Energy Summit, December 13, 2006 Link to other speeches and essays, biographical information, news articles ___________ MIT CULTURE Return to top Exhibits from collections in the Institute Archives and Special Collections about sports, summer excursions, exams, theatricals, and more... http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/exhibits-by-subject.html Garvin, Robert V. We Were Young Then: The Founding of the MIT Rugby Club. The MIT Rugby Club, 2004. [Available through the MIT Press Bookstore.] Peterson,
T. F. Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. MIT
Hack Gallery. Williams,
Rosalind H. Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological
Change. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Onorato, Joseph, and Mark Schupack.Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT: The First Fifty Years. Tech Model Railroad Club, 2002. [Available through the MIT Press Bookstore.] White,
Pepper, The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. Haverson,
Ira, and Tiffany Fulton-Pearson, eds., "Is This The Way
To Baker House?" A Compendium of MIT Hacking Lore. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Museum, MIT, 1996. Hapgood,
Fred. Up the Infinite Corridor: MIT and the Technical
Imagination. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Leibowitz,
Brian M. The Journal of the Institute for Hacks, Tomfoolery
& Pranks at MIT. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Museum, 1990. ___________ MIT SPACES Return to top Jarzombek, Mark. Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004. Joyce,
Nancy E. Building Stata: The Design and Construction
of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. Simha,
O. Robert. MIT Campus Planning, 1960-2000: An Annotated
Chronology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, Office of the Executive
Vice President, 2001. MIT
Housing 1916-1997: A Chronology of Events, Reports and Other Publications.
1998. “MIT
in Cambridge, Mass.: Past, Present and Future.” [videorecording]
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Planning Office, 1994. Art
and Architecture at MIT: A Walking Tour of the Campus.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, Committee on the Visual Arts, 1988. Outdoor Sculpture at MIT. [A walking tour - Public art collection map (pdf)] Lawrence,
Juan Marcos. “A Historical and Social Assessment
of the Main Academic Buildings on the M.I.T. Campus.”
1981. Names
on MIT Buildings Around Killian Court Early
maps of Boston and Cambridge MIT campuses ___________ REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS Return to top Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons to the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2006 Report of the Energy Research Council, May 3, 2006 In
the Public Interest: Report of the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Access
to and Disclosure of Scientific Information, appointed by the Provost
and the Chair of the Faculty. Cambridge: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 2002. Cohen, Joshua, and Kenneth R. Manning, eds. Asking the Right Questions: A Colloquium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Cambridge, Mass.: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT, 2001. Task
Force on Student Life and Learning. Final report, 1998.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1998. MIT: The Impact of Innovation: Bank Boston Special Report, 1997. Final
Report of the ROTC Task Force, March 1996. Dertouzos,
Michael L., Richard K. Lester, and Robert M. Solow. Made
in America: Regaining the Productive Edge. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press,1989. Creative
Renewal in a Time of Crisis. Report of the Commission on MIT Education,
November 1970. Allen,
Jonathan, ed. March 4: Scientists, Students, and Society.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970. Snyder,
Benson R. The Hidden Curriculum. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1973. Government Supported Research at MIT, an Historical Survey beginning with World War II, the Origins of the Instrumentation and Lincoln Laboratories, a staff report prepared for reference purposes. Office of the Chairman of the Corporation, May 1969. MIT.
Review Panel on Special Laboratories (aka Pounds Panel).
Final Report, October, 1969. Cambridge, 1969. MIT
Committee on Educational Survey (aka Lewis Committee).
Report to the Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cambridge, Mass.: Technology Press, MIT, 1949. ___________ WOMEN AND MINORITIES Return to top Women at MIT “A
Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: how a committee
on women faculty came to be established by the Dean of the
School of Science, what the committee and the Dean learned
and accomplished, and recommendations for the future." Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT, 1999. “Barriers
to Equality in Academia: Women in Computer Science at M.I.T.”
Cambridge, Mass, 1983. Keller,
Evelyn Fox. “New Faces in Science and Technology:
A Study of Women Students at M.I.T.” 1981. Ruina, Edith. Women in Science and Technology: A Report on the Workshop on Women in Science and Technology, held May 21, 22, and 23, 1973, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the MIT Press, 1973. Kannenberg,
Susan Lippman. “100 Years of Women at MIT; Preliminary
Report of a Survey of Former M.I.T. Women Sudents.”
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1973. Women
and the Scientific Professions: The MIT Symposium on American Women
in Science and Engineering. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1967. Technology
Women. Compiled by the Registration Committee, M.I.T. Women's
Association. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1916. Ellen
Swallow Richards (MIT's first female graduate, 1873). Blacks at MIT Williams,
Clarence G. Technology and the Dream: Reflections on
the Black Experience at MIT, 1941-1999. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. Robert
Robinson Taylor (MIT's first black graduate, 1892). ___________ MIT AND WORLD WARS I and II Return to top “MIT's
Building 20: The Magical Incubator.” [videorecording] “Celebrating
the History of Building 20” Buderi, Robert. The Invention that Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Five
Years at the Radiation Laboratory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1991. Guerlac,
Henry. Radar in World War II. 2 vols. Los Angeles:
Tomash; New York: American Institute of Physics, 1987. Burchard,
John E. Q. E. D.; M. I. T. in World War II.
New York: J. Wiley, 1948. Technology's
War Record. Cambridge, Mass., 1920. ___________ ORAL HISTORIES Return to top Women
in Science and Engineering. MIT
Oral History Program,
1976-1977. Includes interviews
with MIT professors Mildred Dresselhaus (now Institute Professor),
Vera Kistiakowsky (now Professor Emerita), and Sheila Widnall (now
Institute Professor). Ocean
Engineering. MIT Oral History Program, 1976-1977. Includes interviews with Arthur
Baggeroer, Dean A. Horn, and Alfred A. H. Keil, key figures involved
in Ocean Engineering at MIT. Computers
at MIT. MIT Oral History Program, 1976-1977. Includes
interviews with MIT professors Jay W. Forrester and Harold L. Hazen
about Project Whirlwind and related subjects. Oral
history project conducted in the 1980s by Walter A. Rosenblith (provost)
and Elting Morison (historian) about developments at MIT
after 1940. Includes interviews with
Jerome Wiesner, H. Guyford Stever, James Killian, Francis Schmitt,
Gordon Brown, Howard Johnson, Paul Gray, Manson Benedict, Harold
Edgerton, and Jerrold Zacharias. MIT
Alumnae Oral History Collection. Ongoing. Index to other MIT-related oral histories, both at MIT and elsewhere, at http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/oral-history/ index.html. ___________ INSTITUTE WEB RESOURCES Return to top News
Office MIT
Libraries Virtual Reference Collection MIT
World MIT
Press MIT
Museum
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