The Mennonite Historical Collections are housed on the first floor of the rear portion of Musselman Library. Founded in 1935 by the late Dr. C. Henry Smith as the Mennonite Historical Library, our Mennonite Historical Collections reflect the Mennonite affiliation of Bluffton University and the Swiss tradition of many constituents.
Our Mennonite Historical Collections include a number of editions of key Anabaptist-Mennonite texts, periodicals with research and news for and about Mennonite and related groups, resources for genealogy research, secondary sources on Mennonite history and life, and historic materials from the village of Bluffton and of surrounding communities.
One special piece in our collection is a 1545 Froschauer Bible with a title page from a Martin Luther Bible of the same time period.
Links of interest (coming soon)
Local History Reading List
Fraktur bibliography
Read our special collections policies
