Books About Oberlin
Bigglestone, William E. 1983. Oberlin, from War to Jubilee, 1866-1883. Oberlin, Ohio: Grady Pub. Co.
Bigglestone, William E. 2002. They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century. Oberlin, Ohio : Oberlin College. Rev. Ed.
Blodgett, Geoffrey. 1985. Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History. Oberlin, Ohio; Kent, Ohio: Oberlin College; Distributed by Kent State University Press.
Blodgett, Geoffrey. 1979. Oberlin College Architecture: A Short History. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College.
Blodgett, Geoffrey. 2006. Oberlin History: Essays and Impressions. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press.
Blodgett, Geoffrey and Oberlin College. 1985. Oberlin College, the Great Bandstand Design Competition. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College.
Brandt, Nat. 1991. The Town that Started the Civil War. New York: Laurel.
Fletcher, Robert Samuel. 1971. A History of Oberlin College; from its Foundation through the Civil War. New York: Arno Press.
Kornblith, Gary J., Carol Lasser, 2018. Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio. Baton Rouge: LSU Press.
Morris, J. Brent. 2014. Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism :College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.
Phillips, Wilbur H. 1933. Oberlin Colony: The Story of a Century. Oberlin, Ohio: [Oberlin Printing Company].
Vanek, Eugenia Poporad. 2014. Bonnets to Boardrooms: Women's Stories from a Historic College Town. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin Heritage Center.