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The Lyle Lazear Collection contains programs, newspapers, magazines, and other ephemera related to his years as a student at Florida State University during the 1950s.

The collection is from PFC (T/Sgt) Richard Frake's military records and ephemera, including training certificates for Pre-RADAR VIII, Bomb Reconnaissance School, and Radio/Radar Repairman. The collection also has unofficial certificates proving that Frakes "officially" passed the equator and became a "shellback" on board the USAT Pemant. There are also documents and ephemera about Japanese POWs surrendering.

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of FAC meetings, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and position papers documenting the activities of the FSU Faculty Action Caucus. Topics include application forms for admission, the Bryan Hall recruiting incident, student rights and responsibilities, and Vietnam.

This collection primarily contains published monographs and pamphlets of sermons delivered by Father Coughlin between 1932 and 1936.  Writings by Coughlin on social and economic justice are also included, in addition to printed fundraising correspondence, application and pledge forms for the National Union for Social Justice, and postcards featuring the Shrine of the Little Flower.

Scrapbook of Florida State College for Women student, Victoria J. Lewis, class of 1944 (BS, Education). Items include photographs of her friends, and memorabilia related to her participation in the F Club, Evens, Esteren, and other student organizations.

This collection documents the activities, milestones, and external engagements of President Armstrong's office and includes earlier and later presidential files that provide historical context for the presidency. Contents are a mix of resolutions, proclamations, Board of Trustees materials, college and international partnerships, awards and recognitions, photographs, event programs, speeches, press clippings, and special reports. Highlights include documentation on facility dedications, pivotal college initiatives (e.g., Pathways, international programs), major celebrations, and community relationships.

The Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection at Florida Atlantic University offers a wide variety of primary source materials suitable for research in the disciplines of history, political science, philosophy, pre-law and linguistics. With more than 13,000 items, the collection consists of printed and manuscript materials dating from the fifteenth century to the modern era. Materials include rare books, pamphlets, historical newspapers and journals, broadsides and cartoons, and documents.