Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives

Websites with information:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/labadie-collection/archives-and-manuscripts-f

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/browse.html

Finding aid:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-acpfb?rgn=main;view=text

[0092a] American Committee on Africa records addendum, 1949-2001 (bulk 1970-1997)

Location: Amistad Research Center, Inc., Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118

Description: The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was founded in 1953 to support liberation and anti-colonial struggles in Africa. The records addendum covers the era of Africa's liberation (independence) movements against British, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese colonialism and their imperialistic policy toward the continent, including aspects of both settler and exploitation colonialism, mainly in the African countries of Angola, Guinea Bissau, Namibia, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and South Africa. Series 3: Research, 1949-1997. Sub-Series 2: South Africa, 1953-1997, contains files on Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging; Apartheid; Apartheid and International Law; Politics: White Nationalists; and Right Wing. Sub-Series 3: South Africa-United States, 1954-1997, contains files on Right Wing and Right Wing: Conservative Caucus. Sub-Series 4: Countries, 1949, 1961-1989, contains files on Rhodesia: Apartheid; Rhodesia: Right-Wing Government Information; and Rhodesia: United States (Right Wing Propaganda).

Finding aid:

http://amistadresearchcenter.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=232

[0093] American Conservative Union Records, 1964-1980, MSS 176

Location: 20th &21st Century Western and Mormon Americana, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, 1130 HBLL, Brigham Young University, P.O. Box 26800, Provo, UT 84602-6800

Description: In December 1964, the American Conservative Union (ACU) was organized to meld the splintered conservative movement into a unified whole after Barry Goldwater's defeat in the November election. The first Chairman of the ACU was Donald C. Bruce, a conservative Republican Congressman from Indiana, followed by John Ashbrook, a Congressman from Ohio; M. Stanton Evans; Philip M. Crane, an Indiana Congressman; Congressman Robert Bauman; and Congressman Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards. The ACU has been active in raising funds, corresponding with conservative political leaders, supporting projects, helping candidates, providing advice, and addressing issues relating to conservative causes and political activities all over the United States. The records consist of correspondence, notes, newsletters, memoranda, meeting minutes, charters, bylaws, resolutions, and miscellaneous items. Series I: Founding, contains corporate records of the American Public Affairs Educational Fund, Inc.; a memorandum from Marvin Liebman regarding the initial steps for organizing the ACU; news articles from the National Review concerning ACU's beginning and early activities; and a transcript of an interview with M. Stanton Evans by Dan Manion on the radio program, "The Manion Forum," Feb. 27, 1977. Series III: ACU "Special Projects," contains transcripts of speeches by Robert E. Bauman, James L. Buckley, Philip M. Crane, William Dannemeyer, Mickey Edwards, Orrin Hatch, Jesse Helms, Jack Kemp, James McClure, Larry McDonald, Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, and Phyllis Schlafly; publications of the ACU Education and Research Institute by James L. Buckley and James A. McClure, Philip M. Crane, and Lawrence P. McDonald; and Speakers Bureau files on Rep. John M. Ashbrook, Dr. Anthony T. Bouscaren, L. Brent Bozell, Dr. Philip M. Crane, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Frank S. Meyer, William F. Rickenbacker, William A. Rusher, Ralph De Toledano, Senator John G. Tower, and Dr. Ernest van der Haag. Series IV: The Board of Directors, contains correspondence with Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky, Rep. Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn, M. Stanton Evans, Ronald Reagan, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hon. Margaret Thatcher, Sen. Strom Thurmond, and John Wayne; news releases regarding Major General John Singlaub; and letters, papers, and documents regarding William F. Buckley, Orrin Hatch, Senator Jesse Helms, James A. McClure, William A. Rusher, Phyllis Schlafly, and Ralph de Toledano. Series V: The Advisory Assembly, contains files on Spruille Braden, Sen. James L. Buckley, Sen. Barry Goldwater, Rep. Jack Kemp, Howard E. Kershner, Walter Knott, Maj. Gen. Thomas Lane (Ret.), Adm. Ben Moreell (Ret.), Adm. Arthur W. Radford, Hon. John Tower, and Will Herberg. Series VI: Executive Directors, contains correspondence with Patrick J. Buchanan, Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Sen. Peter H. Dominick, Sen. Strom Thurmond, and John Tower. Series VIII: Financial Records, contains correspondence with Richard A. Viguerie. Series XI: Field Operations, contains a file on Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM), a John Birch Society affiliate. Series XI: Field Operations. Arkansas Conservative Union, contains a file on Dr. George S. Benson, President, National Education Program. Series XI: Field Operations. Maine Conservative Union, contains files on Charlotte Iserbyt. Oregon Conservative Union, contains a file on Walter Huss. Series XIII: Issues Files, 1965-1980, contains information on the Panama Canal issue; studies by Dr. Stefan T. Possony; publications by M. Stanton Evans; and a copy of A Program for American Survival 1973-78, by William Schneider. Series XV: Media Materials. ACU Productions, contains copies of ACU Report; Battleline; The Conservative Answer to Pollution, by Frank S. Meyer and John C. Meyer, 1971; The Conservative Mandate, by Dr. Philip M. Crane, 1968; "Conservative Outlook" (ACU weekly newspaper column), with articles by Bob Bauman, Philip Crane, Jesse Helms, and James McClure; An Effective Labor Policy for the United States, by Sylvester Petro, 1968; The First 1,000 Days--One Legislator's Viewpoint, by John M. Ashbrook, 1971; The G.R.I. Report, "A look into the operations of 'Group Research, Inc.'--America's foremost source of anti-conservative smear material," 1968; Public Monitor Report; and Ratings of Congress. Series XV: Media Materials. Non-ACU publications, contains copies of American Spectator; Citizens for the Republic Newsletter; Cornerstone, by the Foundation of Law and Society; Conservative Party, by the Conservative Party; Enterprise, journal of the National Association of Manufacturers; Heritage Foundation publications, including "The Key to Peace," by Clarence Manion, 1975; Human Events reprints; Intercollegiate Review; New Guard (publication of the Young Americans for Freedom); Persuasion at Work, by the Rockford College Institute, Sept. 1978; Review of the News; The Right Report (Richard A. Viguerie Company, Inc.); The Rockford Papers; and Secret U.S. War Against South Africa, by Aida Parker. Series XVI: ACU Audio Tape Collection, contains recordings of John Ashbrook, Robert E. Bauman, Patrick Buchanan, James L. Buckley, William Buckley, Harry Byrd, Philip M. Crane, Lee Edwards, Mickey Edwards, M. Stanton Evans, Milton Friedman, Philip Gramm, Orrin Hatch, Jesse Helms, Jack Kemp, James McClure, Larry McDonald, Stefan Possony, Ronald Reagan, John Rousselot, William A. Rusher, Phyllis Schlafly, John Singlaub, Strom Thurmond, and Ernest van der Haag.

Reference:

Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2009).

Websites with information:

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/browse.php

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122322655

http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-conservative-union-records/oclc/122322655

Finding aids:

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS176.xml

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%20176

https://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%20176

[0094] American Council of Christian Churches and International Council of Christian Churches Collection, 1941-1958, Record Group # 1

Location: PCA Historical Center, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis, MO 63141

Description: Constitution and Bylaws; Correspondence and deposition re H. McAllister Griffiths; various pamphlets and brochures; materials from the Second Plenary Congress [1950]. Pamphlets include The American Council of Christian Churches: Its Purpose and Testimony, by Carl McIntire; Communism and the Bible, by Dr. Fred Schwarz; and Facing Problems Raised by the World Council of Churches, by Capt. Edgar C. Bundy. A promotional booklet for the ICCC, Second Plenary Congress, 1950, August 16-23, contains articles by Carl McIntire and W.O.H. Garman, among others.

Finding aid:

http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/accciccc.html

[0095] American Council of Christian Laymen Records, 1949-1963, Mss 700; Micro 1100; M2004-199

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: Records, mainly 1950-1962, of the American Council of Christian Laymen (ACCL), a national conservative organization (1949-1964) based in Madison, Wisconsin, that published and distributed literature concerning communist influence within American Protestant churches (especially within the National Council of Churches) and (after 1953) Communist propaganda in school textbooks. The bulk of the collection consists of the extensive correspondence of its founder and president Verne P. Kaub. Among the correspondents are William F. Buckley, Edgar Bundy, L. Ray Carroll, Willis A. Carto, John K. Crippen, Harry Everingham, C.O. Garshwiler, Barry Goldwater, William J. Grede, Chester Hanson, Billy James Hargis, Merwin K. Hart, R.C. Hoiles, J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph P. Kamp, James J. Kilpatrick, Fulton Lewis, Jr., Joseph R. McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Ben Moreell, James D. Murch, J. Howard Pew, Henry Regnery, George Robnett, Edward A. Rumley, Gerald L. K. Smith, Dan Smoot, Governor George Wallace, Robert Welch, Gerald B. Winrod, and Allen Zoll. Also included are an incomplete run of "Challenge," the ACCL newsletter, 1952-1963; a copy of Kaub's book, Communist-Socialist Propaganda in Our Schools; and other records. Subject files on American Mercury, Ray Carroll – Freedom Forum (Billings, Mont.), Christian Beacon, Kenneth Colegrove, Congress of Freedom, John Birch Society, J.B. Matthews affair, mental health, segregation, Un-American Activities Committee—"Operation Abolition," 1960, United Nations—Bricker amendment, and We, the People.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/17270724

http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1949-1963/oclc/17270724

Finding aids:

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00700

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives;cc=wiarchives;view=text;rgn=main;­didno=uw-whs-mss00700

[0096] American Defense Society Records, 1915-1942 (bulk 1918-1920; 1935-1939), MS 14

Location: The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street), New York, NY 10024

Description: This collection documents the views, aims, and internal workings of the American Defense Society (ADS), based in New York City, an early twentieth-century nationalist organization that embraced conservative, anti-radical, nativist, and related sentiments. The material dates from 1915 to 1942, and concerns many of the political, ideological, religious, and social debates and events of the time period. Nearly half of the American Defense Society Records consists of correspondence, including incoming and copies of outgoing letters, as well as internal communications among board members, officers, and members. In addition, the collection contains much printed material, some of which were published by the society. Also included is material that documents the society's internal organization, and newspaper clippings collected by ADS. In 1920, ADS distributed pamphlets entitled "Protocols and World Revolution," that reference the anti-Semitic publication "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." In 1930, Charles Stewart Davison and ADS trustee Madison Grant published The Alien in Our Midst, or "Selling Our Birthright for a Mess of Pottage": The Written Views of a Number of Americans (Present and Former) on Immigration and Its Results (not an ADS publication).

Websites with information:

http://www.nyhistory.org/library/findingaids/manuscripts

http://www.jgsnydb.org/dorot/summerfall2005.pdf

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/58776278

http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1915-1942/oclc/58776278

Finding aids:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/americandefsoc/

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/americandefsoc_content.html

[0097] American Economic and Tax Reform Pamphlets and Ephemera, 1919-1984, RL.01276

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185

Description: This collection consists of pamphlets, newsletters, newspapers, brochures, and other publications and periodicals from a variety of pro-libertarian and right wing organizations, including the American Economic Foundation and the National Economic Council, Inc. Topics include free market capitalism, price stabilization, the elimination or reduction of taxes, anti-Communism, the Federal Reserve, inflation and the gold standard, the Marshall Plan, foreign aid, gold and silver, the value of money, conspiracy theories, the taxation of the American people, inflation, Henry George, land value taxation, and monetary reform.

Finding aids:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/taxreformpamphlets/

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/taxreformpamphlets.pdf

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/taxreformpamphlets/pdf

[0098] American Eugenics Society Records, 1916-1973, Mss.575.06.Am3

Location: Library, American Philosophical Society, 105 S 5th St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3386

Description: The American Eugenics Society Records is a small, selective collection offering information on various periods of the Society's development, including correspondence, membership records, and formal and informal material on its history. Among those associated with the American Eugenics Society were Carl C. Brigham, Edwin G. Conklin, Irving Fisher, Henry H. Goddard, C. M. Goethe, E. S. Gosney, Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, and Lothrop Stoddard. The collection largely revolves around Frederick Osborn (1889-1981), the moving force in the Society for most of its later history, and it includes approximately 100 papers written or delivered by Osborn concerning eugenics, genetics, or population related topics. Files on American Eugenics Party, The American Mercury, Carl C. Brigham, Edwin G. Conklin, Irving Fisher, Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Charles Lindbergh, and Pioneer Fund.

Finding aid:

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.575.06.Am3-ead.xml

[0099] American Family Association Collection, 1990-2005, MUM00008

Location: Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848

Description: Collection of publications and circular letters from the American Family Association, a conservative Christian lobbying organization based in Tupelo, Mississippi, and founded by Donald Wildmon. The organization is concerned with homosexuality, conservative family values, the media, liberal ideology, abortion, and other conservative religious interests. Publications include American Family Association Journal. Topics of the publications include Abortion, Anti-AARP, Anti-media Anti-Bill Clinton, Anti-homosexuality, anti-"LLE" (left-liberal-elite), Anti-liberal, child pornography, Congressman Dornan, Euthanasia, Feminism, Gay rights, Government intrusion, History Standards for U.S. History, Homosexuality, IRS attack on conservatives, Liberals, National Health Care, National Council of Churches, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), People for the American Way, Political correctness, pornography, Prayer in schools, Pro-family legislation, Same sex marriage, and Secular humanism.

Websites with information:

http://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/media/Special-Collections-List.pdf

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/alpha.html

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/bynumber.html

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/religion/manuscript?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/politics/manuscript-20th?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/criminal-justice/manuscripts?page=show

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives-subject-guide/journalism-and-mass-media-manuscript-collections?page=show

Finding aid:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00008.html

[0099a] American Family Association Journal, 1991-present [digital collection]

Description: American Family Association (AFA) was founded in 1977 by Donald E. Wildmon, who was the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, at the time. AFA Journal describes as its purpose "to promote the biblical standard of decency in American culture with emphasis on any moral issues that have an impact on the family. The Journal covers education, patriotism, pro-life issues, pornography, marriage and family, politics, biblical insights, profiles of other successful ministries, profiles of outstanding activists, entertainment issues, the gay activist agenda and more." Issues from Volume 15, Number 1 (January 1991) [online at http://afajournal.org/1991/0191afaj.pdf] to (the latest as of this writing) November 2016 [online at http://www.afajournal.org/past-issues/2016/november/]. Contributors include L. Brent Bozell III, Patrick Buchanan, James C. Dobson, Samuel Francis, James J. Kilpatrick, Mitch McConnell, Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas, and Donald E. Wildmon.

Websites with information:

https://www.afa.net/who-is-afa/about-us/

https://www.afa.net/divisions/afa-journal/

Website for digital collection:

http://afajournal.org/

[0100] American Federation of Labor Records, 1888-1955, U.S. Mss 117A; Micro 489; Micro 568; Disc 53A

Location: Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1417

Description: The American Federation of Labor is composed of national and international unions, which are organized on craft lines, such as carpenters or machinists. Records include files of AFL Presidents Samuel Gompers and William Green; files of various AFL officials and departments; and general files on federal and state legislation, industry and labor developments, strikes and agreements, and other topics. Series 3: State Legislation Files, 1942-1951, contains correspondence of William Green, including telegrams, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and other materials concerning pending bills and legislation in state legislatures, including those dealing with anti-labor laws and right to work legislation. Series 8: Files of the Director of Research, Subseries: File A: General File, contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, clippings, reports, pamphlets, and other materials relative to economic, social, and political problems of interest to Florence Thorne as Director of Research of the AFL. There are files on the Bretton Woods Agreement, Communism, Dumbarton Oaks, and Garet Garrett. Series 11: Files of the Office of the President, 1881-1952, Subseries: File B: William Green Papers, 1915-1945, contains correspondence on the subject of Mussolini.

Reference:

Menzi L. Behrnd-Klodt and Carolyn J. Mattern, Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: A Guide (Madison: The Society, 1983).

Finding aid:

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us00117a

[0100a] American Historical Manuscripts, 1765-1982

Location: Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, Kent State University, 1125 Risman Dr., Kent, OH 44242

Description: This collection contains miscellaneous historical manuscripts by Americans. Files on Charles Austin Beard, William Edgar Borah, Calvin Coolidge, Hamilton Fish, Gerald R. Ford, Herbert Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Henry Louis Mencken, Ronald Reagan, and Eddie Rickenbacker.

Finding aid:

http://www.library.kent.edu/american-historical-manuscripts

[0100b] American Immigration and Citizenship Conference records, 1932-1968, SW 128

Location: Social Welfare History Archives, 320 Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota, 222 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Description: The American Immigration and Citizenship Conference (AICC) was formed in 1960 as a result of the merger of the National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship (NCNC) and the American Immigration Conference (AIC). AICC served as a clearinghouse of information and coordinated activities for organizations and agencies committed to reforming immigration policy. Its efforts were recognized as influential in shaping the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. In 1982, AICC became a part of the National Immigration Forum. Series 1. National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship 1932-1960. Series 1.7. Subject Files, contains a file on McCarran-Walter Act and Refugee Relief Act 1953. Series 2. American Immigration Conference (AIC) 1954-1961. Series 2.2. Board and Committee Materials. [Subseries] Committee on Legislation 1952-1963, contains a file on McCarran-Walter Act 1952-1960. Series 3.2. Committee Structure 1957-1968. [Subseries] Committee on Legislation 1957-1968, contains files on Legislation 1960-1964; Legislation 1961-1962; HR 6300, Walter Bill 1961; Hart Bill 1962; Hart Bill S 747 1963; Rep. Michael A. Feighan; and Fact Sheet: "The Immigration Act of 1965. Public Law 89-236" June 17, 1966. Series 3.7. Non-Government Agencies, contains a file on Organizations not Sympathetic 1962. The series Publications and Print Materials 1946-1969, contains a copy of "Communist Political Subversion: The Campaign to Destroy the Security Programs of the United States Government," Committee on Un-American Activities 1957, and a file on Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives 1950-1958.

Finding aid:

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/sw0128.xml

[0101] American Immigration Conference Board Records, 1929-1939, MS 614

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520

Description: The American Immigration Conference Board Papers, taken from the files of the periodical Uncensored, consists of the correspondence, writings, and printed materials relating to the question of the immigration and deportation of aliens. Active in the late 1930s, the aims of the American Immigration Conference Board (AICB) were to severely limit immigration, both legal and illegal, limit relief benefits only to United States citizens, deport alien criminals and aliens who were continuously on relief, and to "give American Jobs to Americans First." The AICB accordingly gave support to the Reynolds-Starnes Bills, sponsored by Congressman Joe Starnes and Senator Robert R. Reynolds, and opposed passage of the Dies Alien Deportation Bill, which permitted a number of aliens, otherwise subject to deportation, to remain in the United States. The AICB was also strongly anti-Communist. Series I. Correspondence, contains correspondence between officials of the AICB (in particular John Cecil, the president, and Lester M. Gray, the executive secretary) and members of the public who sponsored their policies. Series III. Writings and Publications, contains addresses by Allied Patriotic Societies Inc., Hon. William E. Borah, John Cecil, Hon. Martin Dies, and Senator Robert R. Reynolds. Publications derive from "America in Danger!", The American Coalition, American Nationalist Press, American School of Christian Democracy, Defenders of the Constitution, Inc., Robert Edward Edmondson, German American Bund (Fritz Kuhn, Chairman), Hearings before the Special Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives (Statement of Walter S. Steele), League for Constitutional Government, League for Sound Americanism Inc., and John B. Snow.