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The Middletown Studies Collection is now also available in world! Using Second Life, a free online virtual world, Ball State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections, the Center for Middletown Studies, and the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts and Animation have created the Middletown Studies Collection Library and Archives. The Library and Archives includes exhibits on each of the Middletown areas, a screening room showcasing historic films from the collection, and virtual reference hours to ask questions about Middletown and Muncie.
Digital Media Repository Collections
Robert F. Kennedy Speech Collection
Other Side of Middletown Photographs
Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Collectionp
W.A. Swift Photograph Collection
The Man Haters Film Collection
Middletown Digital Oral History Collections
Middletown Women's History Collection
Delaware County Methodist Church Photographs
Muncie Chevrolet Plant Architectural Drawings
Muncie Post-Democrat Newspaper Collection
Muncie Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Additional Online Resources
Online subject guides to resources available in Archives and Special Collections. Subjects covered include African Americans, World War II, labor history, Native Americans, oral history collections and the Ku Klux Klan.
Archives and Special Collections Exhibits
Online versions of Archives and Special Collections Exhibits, including three Middletown-themed exhibits: "75 Years of Middletown," "Celebrating Local African American History," and "Photographing Middletown, USA."
Middletown: An Annotated Bibliography
Arranged chronologically by publication date, this bibliography brings together all major, Middletown-related printed sources and dissertations known to the authors, ca. 1924-1987. Included are items from newspapers, wire stories, databases, indexes and archival and printed sources. It omits those references which mention the Middletown work of the Lynds and their successors only in passing. It also does not include publications by the Lynds which lack Middletown content.
Annual surveys sponsored by Ball State's Department of Sociology and the Center for Middletown Studies between 1978 and 2004. The purpose of these studies was to assess the views and lifestyles of citizens on major topics including questions on life satisfaction, education, income, family, religion, and politics. Archives and Special Collections has the codebooks and question bank for this study. The data is available online through the Association of Religion Data Archives, which can be reached through the link above.
Compilation of Middletown III and Middletown IV Data, 1977-1999
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan includes data from Middletown III and Middletown IV.
Social Order in Middletown, 1932-1975
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan in includes data from John Hewitt's study of crime over a period of 43 years in Muncie, Indiana.
For information on these and other Middletown resources, contact the Archives and Special Collections, Bracken Library 210, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, telephone, (765) 285-5078, or e-mail libarchives@bsu.edu.
