Abstract The Department of Special Education was founded at Michigan State Normal College in 1914, and today is the oldest and one of the largest special education programs in the United States. The department is now administered by the College of Education, and has expanded its curriculum to include Occupational, Hearing, Sight, and Speech Therapies. Records range from 1914-2014 and include course instruction materials, teaching and assessment kits, department history, pamphlets, brochures, and...

Abstract The Egbert R. Isbell research materials collection are the research files compiled by Dr. Isbell during the process of researching and writing a history of Eastern Michigan University where he served as both a faculty member and administrator from 1937-1967. The book, A History of Eastern Michigan University: 1849-1965 was published posthumously in 1971 by the now defunct Eastern Michigan University Press. The original order of...