The Suffolk Archives offers researchers a variety of tools to aid you in your research.

Bibliographies

Bibliographies are lists of works used to support or referred to by an author for research.

Indicies

Indicies are alphabetical lists of terms mentioned within a work followed by the page numbers where that term can be found.

Professor David L. Robbins’s A History of Suffolk University 1906-1996. (.pdf)

Finding Aids

Finding aids describe a collection’s administrative, biographical, scope and content and container information. Administrative information describes where the collection came from, how the collection was processed, date ranges of materials and restrictions. Biographical information is included for personal maunscript collections. Scope and content notes give researchers detailed information about series hierarchy (how the collection is arranged) and contents (what is in each series), collection highlights, and occasionally topic terms and related subjects. Container information outlines box quantity and folders with in each box.

Collections with finding aids

• MS 100 Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers (consult Archivist)
• MS 105 Mary P. Burke U.N. Women’s Conference Collection (.pdf)
• MS 106 Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Papers (.pdf)
• MS 108 Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers (.pdf)

Research Topics

Research topics are areas of strength within our holdings patrons may wish to consult for research.

• History of Suffolk University
• History of radio
• Massachusetts politics
• Women and international development
• Women’s empowerment and equality
• Grassroots activism
• Congressman John Joseph Moakley
• Boston and Massachusetts Ninth District Economic Development (Big Dig, Waterfront, Taunton Industrial Park, etc.)
• Campaigns – State Representative, State Senate, Boston City Council, Congress
• Congress – Leadership, Rules Committee etc.
• Constituent Services
• Foreign Policy - Military Aid to El Salvador, U.S. Policy towards Cuba
• Democratic Party - Leadership
• Environmental Issues – Boston Harbor Islands, Boston Harbor Clean-up, Hazardous Waste sites
• Fair Housing - Anti-snob Zoning
• Consumer Affairs - Fire-safe Cigarettes, Food Labeling Act
• Forced Busing/Boston Public Schools Desegregation
• Health and Medical Research – Organ Donation, Food Labeling Act
• Historic Preservation - Dorchester Heights, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, U.S.S. Constitution, Old South Meeting House, etc.
• Human Rights – Moakley Commission on the Jesuit Murders in El Salvador, U.S. Policy towards Cuba
• Immigration Issues – Salvadoran Refugee Legislation
• Juvenile Justice
• Labor Relations