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

Finding aid:

http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Learn/Archives/mss_publicaffairs.pdf

[0122] The American Radicalism Collection [partly digital collection]

Location: Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries, 100 Main Library, 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824

Description: The American Radicalism Collection holds over 17,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the United States and throughout the world. The emphasis in the collection is on materials produced by radical groups, both left and right. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as well as in resources for the study of American Labor History, there is considerable material from the right, including the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's, neo-Nazi organizations, and the Christian Right. Among the component collections in the American Radicalism Collection are the Alternative Press Collection, the Edith and Arthur Fox Collection, The American Radicalism Vertical File, the Ku Klux Klan Collection, and the Arsenal Collection. All of these collections are searchable in the Michigan State University Libraries catalogue (web addresses below). The Alternative Press Collection features subscriptions, back files, and sample issues of a wide range of alternative magazines and newspapers. Approximately 1,200 titles are represented. Publications of the political parties of the left and racist and neo-Nazi organizations of the right are included. The Edith and Arthur Fox Collection has pamphlets, election material, and shop papers collected by Edith and Arthur Fox, who were long-time political and labor activists in Detroit and Socialist Workers candidates for Presidential Elector for Michigan. Series 2 – Political and Labor Activities, contains files on CIO – McCarran Act, CPUSA (Opposition), McCarran Act, Smith Act, and Taft-Hartley Act. The Ku Klux Klan Collection consists of items from the 1920's and 1930's, a period of growth in the Klan's history. Constitutions, installation ceremonies, advertisements for Klan merchandise, and the role of women in the Klan are all included from this period. There are also copies of the Kourier, the official monthly magazine of the Knights of the KKK; secondary studies of the Klan, as well as the research materials used by Wyn Wade in his book, The Fiery Cross (1987); and a large collection of United Klans of America material. The American Radicalism Vertical File contains files of clippings and miscellanea on Alert America Association, America's Future, Inc., America's Promise Radio, American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc., American Conservative Union, American Council of Christian Laymen, American Freedom Coalition, American Immigration Control Foundation, American Life Lobby, American Party, American Security Council, American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, Americanism Educational League, Americans for Freedom, Americans for Constitutional Freedom, Anglo-Saxon Federation of America-Detroit, anti-Catholicism, Anti-communist movements, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Anti-Semitism, Apartheid, Aryan Nations, Bookmailer, Inc., Anita Bryant and her anti-gay activism, Pat Buchanan, Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation, Catholic Anti-communist movements, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Book Club of America, Christian Coalition, Christian Crusade: file of miscellaneous publications some by Billy James Hargis, Christian Defense League, Christian Educational Association, Christian Identity, Christian Nationalist Crusade, Christic Institute, Church League of America, Cinema Educational Guild Inc., Circuit Riders, Inc., Citizen Soldier (Organization), Citizen's Councils of America, Citizen's Councils Inc., College Republican National Committee (U.S.), Committee for Constitutional Government, Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations, Committee to Restore the Constitution, Communism, Conservative Caucus, Inc., Conservative Society of America, Conspiracy theories, Contra aid, Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit-Campaign Literature and Right Wing, David Ernest Duke, Eagle Forum: file of miscellaneous publications including several by Phyllis Schlafly, English First (Organization), Equal rights amendment, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family (Organization), Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Freedom School, Barry M. Goldwater, Hate crimes, Jesse Helms, Heritage Foundation, Homophobia, Institute for Historical Review, Jewish Defense League, Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), errors, inventions, etc.: file of clippings, etc., regarding revisionist history of the holocaust, John Birch Society (Gary Allen, Thomas Jefferson Anderson, William E. Dunham, W. Cleon Skousen, Alan Stang, Robert Welch), Klanwatch Project, Ku Klux Klan in Michigan, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Liberty Amendment of USA, Liberty Bell Publications, Liberty Lobby (U.S.), Rush H. Limbaugh, McCarran Act, Joseph McCarthy, Michigan militia, Michigan State Conservative Club, Midwest Research Inc., Militia movement in the United States, Minute Women of USA, Money, Moral Majority: file of clippings, publications and miscellanea, including publications by Jerry Falwell, National Rifle Association, National Association for the Advancement of White People, National Right-to-Life Committee, National Right to Work Committee (U.S.), National Rifle Association of America, National Right to Life Committee (U.S.), National Socialist White People's Party, Nazi parties' miscellaneous publications: leaflets and miscellanea from American white supremacy organizations, Nazi Periodicals, Network of Patriotic Letter Writers, Noontide press, Oliver North, Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995, Omni Publications, Operation Rescue (Organization), Patriotic Majority, Paul Revere-Associated Yeomen, Inc., Fred W. Phelps and his anti-gay campaign, Poor Richard's Book Shop, Promise Keepers (Organization), Racism in universities and colleges, Racism, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Right wing journalism, Right wing organizations - History, Right to Life of Michigan, Right wing- Bibliography, Right wing-Book Clubs, Right wing-Fiction, Right Wing Watch Online, Pat Robertson, Phyllis Schlafly, Segregation, Soldiers of fortune, Soldiers of the Cross, Sons of Liberty (Metairie La.), Tea party movement, Richard A. Viguerie, Voice of Americanism, George Wallace, We, the People, White supremacist movements, World Anti-Communist League, and Young Americans for Freedom. (Midwest Research, Inc. was an independent research institute which collected and disseminated information on right-wing political groups and trends. It moved from Chicago to Cambridge, MA in 1987, and changed its name to Political Research Associates.) The Arsenal Collection is a growing collection of over 5,000 leaflets, books, and periodicals issued by extremist or right-wing organizations and agitators. Imprints from Canada, United Kingdom, the Arab capitals of the Middle East, Australia, South Africa, and the United States are represented in the collection. Topics represented include British Israelism and Christian Identity, the Social Credit movement and monetary reform literature, the New World Order as a globalist conspiracy, anti-New World Order, Ku Klux Klan and segregationist writings, anti-communism, anti-Catholicism, editions of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and other antisemitica alleging a Jewish world conspiracy, Holocaust revisionism, neo-Nazi and fascist literature, Aryanism and white supremacy, and anti-Zionist tracts, the Rothschilds and the Federal Reserve conspiracy, anti-Roosevelt, and anti-New Deal. Items include Eyes Front, America (Los Angeles: Senator Jack B. Tenney, America Plus, Inc., no date [1951]); an envelope and enrollment application to the program America Plus; Secret Societies and their Power in the 20th Century: A guide through the entanglements of lodges with high finance and politics, by Jan van Helsing (Gran Canaria: Ewertverlag, 1995), and A Business Man Looks at Communism, by Fred C. Koch (Wichita, Kan.: F.C. Koch, 1960).

Ku Klux Klan Collection [digital collection], consisting of 29 titles, most from the 1920s:

Includes an anti-immigration work by Hiram Wesley Evans, The Menace of Modern Immigration (n.p.: Ku Klux Klan, 1924).

http://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/collectionbrowse/?coll=22&par=1

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/radicalism/public/all/

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/

Link to several items in the Ku Klux Klan Collection [digital collection]:

http://lib.msu.edu/6050exhibit/

The Rooseveltian Concentration Camps for Japanese-Americans, 1942-46, by Austin J. App (Philadelphia, Boniface Press, 1967) [digital]:

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/rooseveltianconcentration.pdf

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/AFS/dmc/radicalism/public/all/rooseveltianconcentration/

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/

Reference:

Maria R. Traska, "Extremism @ the Library: Propaganda from all sides coexists in select academic collections," American Libraries Magazine, July 14, 2014, http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/­2014/07/14/extremism-the-library/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20140907050658/http://www.­americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/extremism-library and http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/extremism-library.

Websites with information:

http://lib.msu.edu/spc/collections/radicalism/

http://lib.msu.edu/spc/collections/radicalism2/

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll2.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20100609211007/http://spc.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_

coll2.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20061209135254/http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/delpol

96.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20061117122054/http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/index.

htm

https://www.msu.edu/user/jonesmi/AmerRadicalismCol.pdf

Websites with information (for Alternative Press Collection):

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_alt.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20130801115246/http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collectio

ns/radicalism_coll_alt.jsp

Websites with information (for Edith and Arthur Fox Collection):

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_fox.jsp

Finding aid (for Edith and Arthur Fox Collection):

http://findingaids.lib.msu.edu/spc/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=163

Websites with information (for Ku Klux Klan Collection):

http://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/collections/kkk/

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_kkk.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20130328195406/http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collectio

ns/radicalism_coll_kkk.jsp

Finding aid for Special Collections' Vertical Files (including American Radicalism Vertical File):

http://img.lib.msu.edu/special-collections/spc_vertical_file.pdf

Websites with information (for American Radicalism Vertical File):

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_vertical.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20100609201720/http://spc.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalis

m_coll_vertical.jsp

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_vertical.jsp

http://libguides.lib.msu.edu/content.php?pid=62444&sid=794251

http://web.archive.org/web/20100609201720/http://spc.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalis

m_coll_vertical.jsp

Websites with information (for Arsenal Collection):

https://www.lib.msu.edu/spc/discover/

http://spcexhibits.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/radicalism_coll_arsenal.jsp

http://web.archive.org/web/20130801115250/http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collectio

ns/radicalism_coll_arsenal.jsp

Reference (for Arsenal Collection):

Peter I. Berg, "The Arsenal Collection: Supporting Scholarship On Radicalism," Insight (MSU Libraries), Fall 2010, p. 7, http://img.lib.msu.edu/giving/insight/Insight_Oct2010.pdf

Catalogue search for American Radicalism Collection:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search/X?SEARCH=(radicalism)&searchscope=23&SORT=D

Catalogue search for Alternative Press Collection:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=alternative+press&searchscope=23

Catalogue search for Ku Klux Klan Collection:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search/Y?SEARCH=ku+klux+klan&searchscope=23

Catalogue search for Arsenal Collection:

http://magic.lib.msu.edu/search/X?SEARCH=%28arsenal%20collection%29&searchscope=39&SORT=D&b=sp

Catalogue search for American Radicalism Vertical File:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search/a?Michigan+State+University.+Libraries.+Am

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search~S23/a?Michigan+State+University.+Libraries.+American+Radicalism+Collect

ion&search_code=a

http://magic.lib.msu.edu/search~S39?/XN:(American+Radicalism+Vertical+File)

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search~S23?/aMichigan+State+University.+Libraries.+American+Ra/amichigan+state+un

iversity+libraries+american+radicalism+collection/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=amichigan­+state+university+libraries+american+radicalism+collection&1%2C987%2C

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search/X?SEARCH=(radicalism)&searchscope=23&SORT=D

Catalogue search for Arsenal Collection:

http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/search~S39/?searchtype=X&searcharg=arsenal+collection&searchscope=39&sortdr

opdown=-&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=­Xarsenal+and+shapiro%2

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Part 1: Leftist Politics and Anti-War Movements. Part 2: The Religious and Radical Right. Part 3: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Justice and Equal Rights. Part 4: Twentieth-Century Social, Economic, and Environmental Movements. Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint to the Gale Group [2004]. Part 2, The Religious and Radical Right, http://ir.usc.edu:8180/dspace/bitstream/10011/305/13/­Reel+Index+And+Guide+to+Pt+III+-+Race%2C+Gend

er%2C+and+the+Struggle+for+Justice+and+­Equal+Rights.pdf

http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/9027000C.rtf

http://microformguides.gale.com/Download.asp?CollDocid=9027000&page=1

http://www.lib.msu.edu/branches/dmc/digital/?coll=1

[0123] American Reactionary Political Ephemera. Collection, 1939-1950 (bulk 1944-1946)

Location: Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Description: This collection contains ephemera pertaining to American reactionary politics from 1939 to 1950. Included are newspaper clippings, flyers, pamphlets, postcards, newsletters, notes, and other similar pieces of ephemera covering topics such as anti-Semitism, Catholicism, Communism, Evangelism, Fascism, Isolationism, Labor, nationalism, racism, world government, and other issues related to ultraconservative social, religious, and economic movements. Files on America First Committee, undated; America Preferred, Carl H. Mote, 1944; American Action, 1946; American Nationalist Party, 1945; American Nationalists Committee of Independent Voters, 1944; American United for World Organization, 1945; America First Party, 1944 and undated; American Women Against Communism, 1942-1943 and undated; Charles J. Anderson, Jr., 1944; "An Appeal to Negro Womanhood," Eddene G. Graham, undated; Rep. Fred E. Busbey, mailing, 1944; Business Men's Committee, 1944; Chicago Committee to Defend America, undated; Chicago Council Against Racial and Religious Discrimination - Postcard, undated; Chicago Tribune - Criticism, 1944-1945; Citizens USA Committee, 1944; Committee of Veterans, undated; Constitutional Educational League, Inc., 1940; Constitutional Americans - Postcard, 1944; Council for Democracy, 1945; James J. Cusack, Alderman - Handbill, 1939; Dumbarton Oaks Conference, 1944; Executives' Club of Chicago - Executives' Club News, 1939-1946; "The Fourth Book of Ike," undated; Friends of Democracy, Inc. 1944-1949; Gentile Co-operative Association, 1944-1945; Rep. Clare E. Hoffman speech, 1943; "Last Plea for Europe," Oswald Garrison Villard, undated; Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company, Upton Close broadcasts, 1944; Captain Edward Miles, undated; "Money," 1946; National Committee Against Persecution of the Jews - Pamphlets, undated; Peace Now, 1944; "The Protestant," 1944; Gerald L. K. Smith, 1944-1945; Spiritual Mobilization, Inc., 1949 and undated; "The Struggle Against 'Christian' Hatred in Detroit," Merrill Otis Bates, undated; "We, the Mothers" - Clippings, undated; White Circle League, 1950; Women's League for Political Education, undated; and Woodlawn Property Owners' League, 1944.

Websites with information:

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/browse.php?alpha=A

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/finding-aids/?topic=Politics%2C%20Public%20Policy%20and%20Political

%20Reform&view=topics

Finding aids:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.REACTIONARYEPHEMERA.pdf

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.REACTIONARYEPHEMERA.pdf

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.REACTIONARYEPHEMERA

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.REACTIONARYEPHEMERA

[0124] American Religions Collection, circa 1840s-2010s (bulk 1970s-1990s), ARC Mss 1

Location: Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Description: The American Religions Collection (ARC), much of which was assembled by J. Gordon Melton, primarily documents non-mainstream religions in America. The collection contains monographs, manuscript collections and serials mainly relating to 20th century non-traditional religions and splinter groups of larger religious bodies in North America. Series I: Groups/Families, contains files on A-Albionic Research; Don Bell Reports Newsletter- Christian America; Ministry of Christ Church - William P. Gale; and New Christian Crusade Church. Series II: Secondary Religious Organizations, contains files on American Center for Law and Justice, American Family Association, Anita Bryant Ministries, Campus Crusade for Christ, Christianity Today, Christic Institute, Church League of America, Committee of Christian Laymen, Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, Foundation for Christian Reconstruction, Foundation for Economic Education, The Freedom Council, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, George Gordon's School of Common Law, Hillsdale College, Institute for First Amendment Studies, League of Christian Laymen, Moral Majority, Moral Re-Armament, National Right to Life Committee Inc., Operation Rescue National, Pro Family Forum, Pro-Life Action League, PTL Television Network (Praise the Lord), Rockford Institute, Rutherford Institute, 700 Club, Traditional Values Coalition, and 20th Century Reformation Hour. Series III: Subject Files, contains files on American Family Foundation, American Research Institute for Cults, Anti-Cult Legislation, Anti-Cult Movement, Anti-Cult Network, Christian Research Institute, Cult Awareness Network, Focus on the Family, and La Rouchies.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/research/arcmss

https://web.archive.org/web/20130102223937/http://www.library.ucsb.edu/node/1680

http://libraries.ucsb.development-preview.com/special-collections/collections/aguides

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/collections/aguides

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/collections/d_j_guides

http://www.wrs.vcu.edu/ARCHIVES/American%20Religions%20Collection.pdf

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3779n92n/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3779n92n/entire_text/

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/ucsb/spcoll/arcmss99.pdf

Database of serials:

Contains 5260 serials.

http://misc.library.ucsb.edu/arc/recordlist.php?-max=5260&-skip=0&-link=all&-action=findall

[0124a] American Spectator Educational Foundation records, 1967-2001

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010

Description: Publishing company of the journal The American Spectator. Minutes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, research files, book drafts, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to political conditions and conservatism in the United States, and to publication of The American Spectator. The records are currently closed.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122369647

http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-spectator-educational-foundation-records-1967-2001/oclc/1223696

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http://www.hoover.org/history-collection-americas

[0125] American States' Rights Association Papers, 1954-1956 (1/3 linear foot), AR416, files 416.1.1 and 416.1.2

Location: Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Birmingham Public Library, 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, AL 35203-2794

Description: Memorandum and other material dealing with the groups' support for racial segregation. Includes two items relating to Asa Carter.

Websites with information:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090517041910/http://www.bplonline.org/archives/collections/civilrightsmoveme

ntandracerelations.asp

https://web.archive.org/web/20090517041910/http://www.bplonline.org/archives/collections/civilrightsmoveme

ntandracerelations.asp

http://www.bplonline.org/resources/archives/collections.aspx?q=6

[0126] American Subject Collection, 1899-2004, Coll. XX742

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

Description: Pamphlets, leaflets, serial issues, clippings, other printed matter, memoranda, reports, letters, writings, and miscellany, relating to political and social conditions in the United States, and especially to socialist, libertarian, and radical movements. Subject File, 1901-1994, contains materials on Anti-Semitism: Leaflets issued by the Edmondson Economic Service, 1934; Civil rights movement; Communism: Correspondence, speeches, statements, testimonies, reports, studies, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, and clippings, 1946-1977, relating to international communism and to communism in the United States; Herbert C. Hoover; Lyndon LaRouche; Libertarianism: General. Correspondence, reports, essays, financial records, notes, leaflets, pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, newspaper and serial issues, and other printed matter, relating to libertarianism in the United States, the organization and activities of the Libertarian Party in California and other libertarian organizations and conservative youth groups, and the First National Convention of the Libertarian Party; and First issue of the newsletter North Texas Libertarian, 1986 March, relating to the beginning of the 1986 Libertarian Party campaign in Texas. Audio-Visual Material, n.d. and ca. 1929-1947, contains 7 phonotape cassettes of speeches on American politics and political parties by Frank Chodorov, John Hospers, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig von Mises.

Note: The material on Libertarianism was originally a separate collection, the American Individualism Collection, 1966-1974. See Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives, by Charles G. Palm and Dale Reed (Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, 1980), pp. 15-16, and Guide to the Hanna Collection and Related Archival Materials at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace on the Role of Education in 20th-Century Society, by Fakhreddin Moussav (Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, 1982), p. 7.