Wikipedia:WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities/Library

Welcome to the WikiProject Fraternities and Sororities Resource Library! This page provides organized information guides and curated links to resources that might be useful in providing information, citations, and images to help build the various articles about fraternity, sorority, and related subjects.

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• Freely accessible to any reader; (i.e. Not behind a paywall or requiring a password).
• Suitable for use as a reliable source, providing factual information, OR a source of freely-licensed images.
• Either within the public domain, freely licensed, or otherwise legally hosted at the destination site.
• Non-promotional. As with the standards of Wikipedia, this is not a place for promotional links (see WP:NOT).

Organize lists from A-Z by last name, first name or title in "Books"; and webiste name, in "Websites" and "Freely-licensed images and media".

Books

• Baird, Wm. Raimond. American College Fraternities (1st edition, 1879) (2nd edition, 1883) (4th edition, 1890) (5th edition, 1898)
• Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (6th edition, 1905) (7th edition, 1912) (8th edition, 1915) (8th edition supplement, 1916) (10th edition, 1923) (11th edition, 1927) - the 11th edition include illustrations of badges
• Blanchard, Charles A. Modern Secret Societies, 7th edition (1915)
• Butterfield, Emily H. College Fraternity Heraldry (1931) - illustrations and descriptions of GLOs coat of arms
• Daraul, Arkon. A History of Secret Societies (1961)
• Graebner, Theodore. A Handbook of Organizations (1948) - general fraternities and church-related fraternities
• Jacobs, Albert P. Greek-Letter Societies (1879)
• Heckethorn, Charles William. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries (vol. 1, 1875) (vol. 2, 1875)
• Levere, William C. Leading Greeks: An Encyclopedia of the Workers in the American Fraternities and Sororities (1915)
• Maxwell, Will. Fraternity Men of Chicago (1898) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of Central New York South (1901) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of Michigan (1901) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of New York (1899) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of New York, South (1901) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of Pittsburgh (1901) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States (1903) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Maxwell, Will. Greek Letter Men of Washington (1900) - useful when working on notable member lists
• Musgrove, Wayne M. College Fraternities (1923)
• The National Jewish Blue Book: An Elite Directory (1927) - includes members of GLOs, useful for notable member lists
• Noble, Franklin. Thoughts for the Occasion, Fraternal and Benevolent; a Reference Manual of Historical Data and Facts (1905) - General, benevolent, and religious fraternal organizations
• Preuss, Arthur. A Dictionary of Secret and Other Societies (1924)
• The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries, Volume 1 (1875)
• Shaw, Ida Martin. The Sorority Handbook (2nd edition, 1907) (3rd edition, 1909) (4th edition, 1911) (6th edition, 1918) (7th edition, 1921) (8th edition, 1923) (11th edition, 1931)
• Sheldon, Henry D. Student Life and Traditions (1901) - includes fraternal organizations and history in Europe and U.S.
• Stevens, Albert C. The Cyclopædia of Fraternities (1899) - a compilation of information on more than 600 secret societies in the US
• A Survey of the National Policies of Professional Fraternities. The Professional Interfraternity Council (April 1934)
• Professional Interfraternity Conference (1950) - http://www.thetatauarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/PROFESSIONAL-FRATERNITIES_B_49.pdf

Journals and Magazines

• Banta's Greek Exchange. (vol. 1, 1912) (vol. 2, 1913) (vol. 3, 1914) (vol. 4, 1915) (vol. 5, 1916) (vol.6, 1918) (vol. 7, 1919) (vol. 8, 1919)
• The Fraternity Month vol. 1 and 2 (1933-1934)
• Piper, P. F. "College Fraternities". The Cosmopolitan vol. 22 (1897) - includes good illustrations of early badges

Websites

• Academic Organizations. Korp! Fraternitas Estica - includes colors of Estonian student corporations
• Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities - Published and maintained by the University of Illinois Library, this resource follows in the tradition of Baird’s Manual of American College Fraternities and includes lists of active and inactive GLOs, with chapter details
• America's Lost Colleges - information about smaller colleges, useful for creating chapter lists
• Association of College Honor Socieities - umbrella organization for collegiate honor societies
• Association of College Honor Societies Archive - archived description of organizations with chapter lists
• Black Orgs - includes lists of Black fraternal orders, fraternities, and sororities
• Honor Society Cord Colors | College and University
• Color Tags Index - source for HEX codes used to create color blocks
• Most Students in Fraternities, U.S. News & World Report - statistical data on GLO membership by college campus
• National APIDA Panhellenic Association - umbrella organization for Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American fraternities and sororities
• National Multicultural Greek Council - umbrella organization for multicultural GLOs
• National Panhellenic Conference - umbrella organization for sororities
• National Pan-Hellenic Council - umbrella organization for historically black GLOs
• North American Interfraternity Conference - umbrella organization for fraternities
• Professional Fraternity Association - umbrella organization for professional GLOs
• What's My Sorority's Flowers - source for official flowers for major sororities

Wikipedia Links

• List of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the United States - help in figuring college names for chapter lists
• List of colors: A–F - source for hex codes used to create color blocks
• List of colors: G–M - source for hex codes used to create color blocks
• List of colors: N–Z - source for hex codes used to create color blocks
• List of US collegiate yearbooks - includes links to digitized yearbooks
• * Wikipedia Library
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Freely-licensed images and media

• Balfour Blue Book (1928) - a photographic catalog of GLO badges, pins, and rings