The Monroe Fordham Regional History Center
Classroom Building C222
Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14222

The Monroe Fordham Regional History Center, established at Buffalo State College by President Muriel Howard, continues and expands the archival collection work begun more than thirty years ago by Dr. Monroe Fordham. It serves as a resource for the History Department's vibrant academic life and brings together teaching materials including newspapers, documentary videos and slide collections for classroom use. The Center also functions as a place to prepare research materials for ongoing short term projects.

The mission of the Center is to promote understanding of regional history and foster its inclusion into local school curricula, and to make historical resources accessible to students, scholars, and community groups. This mission is sustained through collaboration with community groups and other local archival resourses to actively preserve and disseminate historically significant documents of persons and institutions that contributed to western New York history.

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Julian Bond, lecturer and historian, recently gave a talk at Buffalo State's Rockwell Hall. A podcast version is available for download here.