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

Announcements

WBFO Receives Award for Work With Polish WWII Survivors

WBFO radio has receieved a regional Edward R. Murrow award for a story about the Polish Legacy Project that aired last year just before the Untold Stories Conference. 

The interviews and stories of from these Polish WWII survivors can be listened to here

The MFRHC also proudly houses a number of interviews given by Christian Holocaust Survivors from Poland. Additional information about these interviews can be found here under the center's multimedia collection.

Buffalo Quarters / Lillion Batchelor Collection

The MFRHC has recently acquired the personal collection of Lillion Batchelor and the papers for the Buffalo Quarters organization. The collection have been preserved and digitized. It is now available in the center's website here

Niagara Falls Churches

8/26/2010: The 3rd church preserved in this ongoing project-- Zion Lutheran church is now available here.

The Monroe Fordham Regional History Center, established at Buffalo State College by former 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 resources 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.