The NCSE Archives holds the administrative records of the NCSE. These records serve to document the efforts of the NCSE in its goal of supporting the continued teaching of evolution, climate science, and science as a way of knowing. In addition, the Archives assembles materials of historical, current, or future importance to the creationism/evolution controversy. The Archives also collects material to assist and document NCSE's goal of promoting public awareness of the importance of science education, and the importance of evolution and climate science in science education.
Beginning in 2016, NCSE transferred the bulk of its Archives to the American Philosophical Society. A finding aid is available online here. NCSE is grateful to the APS for its stewardship of these important materials.
Archival Collections
Notable NCSE collections include the Creation/Evolution Journal Records, the McLean v. Arkansas Collection, the Frank Awbrey Papers, the G. Brent Dalrymple Papers, the Karl D. Fezer Papers, the William V. Mayer Papers, the Wayne Moyer Papers, the Robert Schadewald Creationism/Evolution Rare Book Collection, and the NCSE Creationism/Evolution Audio and Video Collection.
NCSE also maintains a highly focused research library whose holdings include over 3000 books, periodicals, pamphlets and related material, detailing, discussing and documenting the continued controversy between science, and evolution specifically, and various forms of creationism, including "intelligent design." Also included are similar materials about climate change, climate change education, and climate change denial.
Online Library Catalog
A catalog of NCSE's collection of books and pamphlets relating to these controversies is available online here.
To contact the Archives:
National Center for Science Education
230 Grand Ave., Suite 301-B
Oakland, CA 94610
Phone: (510) 601 7203
Email: archivist@ncse.ngo
Revised March 2026