A Songs from the Stacks profile of Artemas Carter, an early Antioch trustee and treasurer (from 1859) who personally bankrolled the College’s finances for two decades, lost his own fortune in the Great Chicago Fire and Panic of 1873, and died in near-poverty in Winnetka, Illinois in May 1877 — still giving what little he…
The January 14, 1876 Antioch Faculty resolution, secured by Professor John Burns Weston, exposing a local essay-writing-for-hire scam known as the Great American Literary Association — the same episode later recalled in G. Stanley Hall’s memoir.
The 1864 journal of Antioch student Cornelia “Nellie” Van Mater, daughter of a College trustee caught up in the sectarian Christian-vs-Unitarian conflict over Antioch’s control — described by archivist Tina Ratcliff as capturing “a feminine culture in transition.”
Reverend Thomas Hill’s soul-searching August 1859 letter weighing Antioch’s second presidency, written while founding president Horace Mann lay dying — amid intense denominational conflict between Christian and Unitarian factions over the College’s future direction.
Antioch’s first president Horace Mann addresses the General Convention of the Christian Church exactly one year after the College’s 1853 opening, describing its founding principles and challenging the Convention to ensure Antioch meets the demands of a rapidly changing American civilization.
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