General history

• Today in UW history
• University of Waterloo archives
• List of campus buildings, with construction dates
• News and documents of the past
• Senior administrative officers, past and present
• History of the UW web site
• Google timeline

News & events

• Student newspapers, 1958 to the present
• UW's 40th anniversary, 1997
• UW's 50th anniversary, 2007
• 25 years of Hagey Lectures
• Emergency (storm) closings

From Ken McLaughlin, university historian:

• "Dreaming in Technicolor" lecture, 1992: Gazette report; Edited text
• Waterloo: The Unconventional Founding, 1997: Gazette report; News release
• History of St. Jerome's University, 2002

Faculties & colleges

• A brief history of the faculty of mathematics
• History of St. Jerome's University
• Founding of Conrad Grebel University College (PDF)
• Brief history of the department of systems design engineering
• History of Wilfrid Laurier University (and Waterloo College)
• Unbundling Computing at the University of Waterloo
• History of Computer Science at Waterloo

Campus development

• North campus: past, present and future
• Background of planned architecture building in Cambridge

Myth & legends

• Legends, nostalgia and trivia
• Water under the bridge: A troll's-eye view
• The great water tower caper of 1958
• Engineering Society story night, 2011
• "Power Tripping", a history of the Radical Student Movement
• Exploring the tunnels, circa 1990
• The mysterious farm on the north campus
• The Math and Computer building "Red Room"
• The Myth of Waterloo (from Slashdot)