Looking Back

Colgate was built by remarkable people. Stone by stone, moment by moment, they created an academic community and pursued greater understanding — deo ac veritati. This is our heritage and our inspiration.

Explore Colgate History

“To contemplate the future, it is wise, first, to consider Colgate’s history and the ways in which the university’s unique characteristics have emerged.” — President Brian W. Casey

Browse the artifacts in our archives’ digital collections.

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Before Payne’s Farm

How Oneida lands became Colgate

Women on the faculty and administration

A trio of pioneering Colgate women leaders share their experiences.

Colgate’s presidents

200 years of leadership

Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Class of 1930

Activist, reformer, fighter

Edward Harris Stone

Colgate photographer for more than 50 years

Colgate’s First Charter

Establishing the institution that would become Colgate

Johnny Marks: Mr. Christmas

Composer of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and Class of 1931 graduate was a songwriter extraordinaire

	
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