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University History Timelines

Historical Timelines
Click here for timelines relating to: General Events, Academic Events, Campus Buildings, Administration/Faculty/Staff.

Selected Secondary Sources

Blanford Barnard Dougherty, Mountain Educator by Ruby Lanier
Call Number: LA2317.D6182 L36
Publication Date: 1974
Biography of University founder B.B. Dougherty (1870-1957).
Blanford Barnard Dougherty, A Man to Match his Mountains by O. Lester Brown
Call Number: LB1927.B62 B7
Publication Date: 1963
Biography of University founder, B.B. Dougherty (1870-1957).
Mountain Educators : the Dougherty Family and the First Fifty Years of Appalachian by Doris Perry Stam
Call Number: LB1927.B62 S73 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Family history of App State founders: B.B. Dougherty, D.D. Dougherty, and Lillie Shull Dougherty.
Appalachian State University by Pamela Price Mitchem
Call Number: LD173 .M58 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Pictorial history of Appalachian State University. The majority of photographs come from the University Archives.
Appalachian State University: The First Hundred Years by Jack Mellot, Mike Rominger, Charles Shoffner, Ruth Douglas Currie
Call Number: LD175.A85 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Pictorial history of Appalachian State University for its centennial.

Also Useful

The Cratis Williams Chronicles: I Come to Boone by Cratis D. Williams; David Cratis Williams and Patricia D. Beaver, editors
Call Number: ASU SPEC APP COLL LA2317.W513 A3 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Documents Dr. Cratis D. Williams' experience coming to Boone in 1942 to work at the Appalachian Demonstration High School, part of what is now Appalachian State University.
Appalachian State University by Cratis Williams
Call Number: ASU SPEC APP COLL LD175.A40k W51
Publication Date: 1976
History of Appalachian State University to 1976.
Remembrances; Watauga Academy, Appalachian Training School, Appalachian State Normal School, Appalachian State Teachers College, Appalachian State University by William R. Dunlap and Tom Corbitt
Call Number: ASU SPEC APP COLL LD175.A4019 R4
Publication Date: 1975
History of Appalachian State University through 1975.

Fact Books

Fact Books provide statistical data about the University, starting in 1969. Brief enrollment history is available starting in 1903 on this website also.

https://analytics.appstate.edu/info_factbook_archives

First Hundred Years Book Text

ASU: The First Hundred Years
Text: Ruth Douglas Currie, Ph.D.
Copyright 1998, University Archives, Appalachian State University

University Titles Over Time

1899-1903 Watauga Academy

1903-1925 Appalachian Training School

1925-1929 Appalachian State Normal School

1929-1967 Appalachian State Teachers College

1967- Appalachian State University

Presidents and Chancellors

1899-1955 Blanford Barnard (B.B.) Dougherty

1955 J.D. Rankin (Interim)

1955-1969 William H. Plemmons

1969-1979 Herbert Wey (1975, Cratis Williams, Acting Chancellor)

1979-1993 John E. Thomas

1993-2003 Francis T. Borkowski

2003 Harvey Durham (Interim)

2004-2014 Kenneth Peacock

2014-2024 Sheri Everts

2024- Heather Hulburt Norris (Interim)

Library Guides

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