The Faculty Collection, like the Alumni/ae Collection, reflects the achievements of Exeter’s artists and scholars and contains works by prominent historians, novelists, poets, essayists, and playwrights. Among faculty authors are the works of Henry W. Bragdon, whose A History of a Free Nation has remained a standard American history textbook through several editions. Donald B. Cole is the author of many history books, including Martin Van Buren and the American Political System and A Jackson Man: Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy. Michael Golay has published non-fiction works on the Civil War and the exploration of the American West. Among his titles is A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War.

Mathematics instructors Arthur W. Weeks and Jackson B. Adkins produced numerous text- books, including First Course in Algebra and Modern Advanced Mathematics, both of which they co-authored. Richard G. Brown made an impact on the teaching of high school mathematics with several textbooks and is a co-author of Algebra and Trigonometry: Structure and Method. John C. Hogg and Charles L. Bickel collaborated on science textbooks and are known in particular for their ground-breaking Physics and Chemistry: A Unified Approach.

Frederick Buechner, novelist and essayist, is represented by numerous volumes, among them The Book of Bebb and The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found. Books and interviews with poet Dolores Kendrick are featured, including The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women.

The recordings of jazz musician Tom Gallant are among significant works in the collection as well.