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OWU Historical Collection

Digitized Books on OWU History


Online Materials for the OWU Historical Collection

Our Shared History: Delaware, Methodism, and Ohio Wesleyan University

The interrelated history of the city, the Church, and the college as told through materials from the Archives of Ohio United Methodism, the Delaware County Historical Society, and the OWU Historical Collection.


OWU Student Newspapers - Part 1 (1867-2006)

Full-text access to issues of OWU's print student newspapers: Western Collegian, Practical Student, Ohio Wesleyan Transcript, and The Transcript.


newspaper story

OWU Student Newspapers - Part 2 (2012 - present)

Full-text access focused on modern issues of the Ohio Wesleyan Transcript as well as the 1974 Review-Journal. Additional print newspaper volumes and online stories will be added in the future to create a complete run of OWU student newspapers.


OWU Yearbooks

Digitized copies of Le Bijou from 1960-1979. The OWU Historical Collection holds print copies of all the yearbooks.


Photographs from the OWU Historical Collection

Small collection of historical images. More are available in the holdings of the OWU Historical Collection.