Office of the University Historian
Rev. Charles F. Donovan's Occasional Papers
Rev. Charles F. Donovan, SJ, the first University Historian, was the author of The History of Boston College (1990), a full-length study that traced the history of Boston College from its origins in 1863 as a small, liberal arts college, to its status in 1990 as a major national university.
In addition to this official history, Fr. Donovan also inaugurated a series of smaller booklets he called "Occasional Papers" which drew upon historical sources to document little-known aspects of Boston College's history.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 2000
- Rev. Charles F. Donovan, SJ, 1912-1998, Thomas H. O'Connor
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1998
- Boston College and the Lawrence Family, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1997
- Pioneers at Chestnut Hill: Recollections of the Class of 1917, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- The Gerard Manley Hopkins Original in Hopkins House, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1996
- Rev. Timothy Brosnahan, S.J.: Boston College President, 1894-1898, National Spokesman for Jesuit Liberal Education, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1995
- St. Patrick in Gasson Hall, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Fulton of Fulton Hall, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1993
- Boston College's Boston Priests: An account of Boston College Men Who Became Priests of the Archdiocese of Boston, 1877-1993, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1992
- Gasson's Rotunda: Gallery of Art, History, and Religion, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1991
- Debate at Boston College: People, Places, Traditions, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Boston College Remembered: 1891-1900, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- The Spirit Maketh Alive : An Early Protestant View of Boston College, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Boston College's Second Spring, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1990
- Joseph Coolidge Shaw : Boston Yankee, Jesuit, Early Boston College Patron, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1984
- Boston College's first Boston Brahmin friends, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Student Enrollment at Boston College in the Nineteenth Century, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1983
- Boston College's Move to Chestnut Hill, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Boston College's streets, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Rules of Gentlemanly Conduct, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- The Foster Cadets of Boston College, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1982
- Nineteenth Century Boston College: Irish or American?, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
MANUSCRIPTS FROM 1980
- Boston College's Classical Curriculum, Charles F. Donovan S.J.
- Boston College's Beacon Hill Connection, Charles F. Donovan S.J.