CCNY History: Books & eBooks

The story of City College is presented thematically, not chronologically. Over two hundred pictures drawn from the City College Archives illustrate the growth of the campus, student life and academics, athletics, notable people, and ceremonial occasions. This pictorial history of The City College of New York is available from the iTunes store for $12.99.

This comprehensive history of the first 100 years of City College history is very text-heavy with an extremely useful index for locating noteworthy City College people and events.

This volume published when the City College moved to the new location in Hamilton Heights looks back at what the life of the College was like when it was contained in the original building at Lexington Avenue and 23rd street.

One hundred and fifty years of growth and change of one of the largest municipal college systems in the U.S. and interaction with the city these campuses call home is covered in this book. Archival photographs and images from many of the colleges illustrate the volume.

The architecture of the City College campus buildings starting from the Free Academy building designed by James Renwick to the current collegiate Gothic campus designed by George B. Post up to the North Academic Center by John Carl Warnecke is covered in this book by a former faculty member of the School of Architecture.