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

Websites with information:

http://libguides.westga.edu/content.php?pid=33218&sid=272238

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=b000169

Finding aids:

http://uwg.galileo.usg.edu/uwg/view?docId=ead/POL-0005-ead.xml

http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/204/284005/Bob_Barr.pdf

[0238a] Bob Barr papers, Office Files, 1964-2004, POL-0005-15

Location: Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections, Ingram Library, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118

Description: Bob Barr (1948- ) represented the Seventh District of Georgia in the United States House of Representatives for four terms between January 1995 and January 2003. This portion of the Bob Barr papers contains correspondence from constituents, news clips, meetings and event information (including Town Hall Meetings), and files on many local constituent issues. Series II: Marietta, Boxes 408-496, contains files on Abortion; Assisted Suicide; Dan Burton; CATO Institute; CATS (Conservative Action Team); CPAC Conference January 21, 2000 Washington DC (Conservative Political Action Committee); Contract with America: Reforming Congress, Changing Washington, n.d.; CCC (Council of Conservative Citizens); Defense of Marriage Act (D.O.M.A.); Alan Dershowitz (refers to Dershowitz accusation that Bob Barr was associated with Council of Conservative Citizens and alleged racist policies); Eagle Forum; Farrakhan; Marriage Defense Act; Meese Article by Barr, 1996; Militias; National Rifle Association (NRA); Partial Birth Abortion; Ronald Reagan; Supreme Court: Church-State; Tax Reform Immediately (TRIM); and Bob Tyrrell Manuscript for "Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton." Series IV: Washington, Boxes 529-606, contains correspondence from Congressman Bill Archer, Haley Barbour, Congressman Dan Burton, President George W. Bush, Dr. James C. Dobson, Congressman Robert K. Dornan, Milton Friedman (to Senator Phil Gramm), House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Orrin Hatch, Senator Jesse Helms, David Horowitz (contains membership card for the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), Lester Maddox, Lyn Nofziger, Grover Norquist, Congressman Ron Paul, Senator Richard Russell, Phyllis Schlafly, and Washington Legal Foundation; and files on Abortion; Partial-Birth Abortion; assisted suicide; Abortion/Pro-Life; Austria, 2000 (Newsletter of Family Research Council referring to European Union's criticism of Joerg Haider and references to Holocaust); Balanced Budget (1993 article by Grover Norquist); Balanced Budget-Fiscal Responsibility Act; Balanced Budget (Senator Phil Gramm editorial); George W. Bush; C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute); China (copy of National Conservative Weekly, Patrick Buchanan op-ed "Is China war inevitable?"); CATS (Conservative Action Team) (copy of "GOP Republican Platform 2000"); CATS & COS (Conservative Opportunity Society); Conservative Caucus; CPAC Award and Conference, 1996 (Conservative Political Action Conference) (copy of "Human Events" weekly); Careers Act [Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment and Rehabilitation Systems Act; H.R 1617, 2332, SB 143] (essay by Phyllis Schlafly "Education Reform, Ted Kennedy-Style"); Council of Conservative Citizens (refer to Trent Lott's membership); English First, English Language Unity Act, H.R. 1984 (107th Cong.) (To reaffirm English as the official language of the United States, to establish an uniform English language rule for naturalization, and to avoid misconstructions of the English language texts of the Laws of the United States, pursuant to Congress' powers to provide for the General Welfare of the United States and to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization under Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution.); Euthanasia; Louis Farrakhan; Flag Desecration; Flat Tax; Focus on the Family; Freemen-Montana; Newt Gingrich; Hillsdale College; Homosexual Rights; Homosexuals; McVeigh Execution; National Right to Life; NRA; Partial-Birth Abortion Ban; Reagan; The Religious Equality Amendment Hyde's H.J. Res. 121; Religious Freedom Amendment; Religious Liberties Amendment; Religious Liberty Protection Act; Right to Life; Right to Work; Ruby Ridge; Richard B. Russell; School Prayer; School Vouchers; Stem Cell Research; Voter I.D.; Waco; Washington Legal Foundation; and Young America's Foundation. Series V: Bob's Files, Boxes 607-662, contains files on ACU; The American Spectator; Anti-Terrorism; Campaign Barr 2002 Viguerie/ATA [American Target Advertising] Proposal, 2002; Gun Control; MEGIDDO Project (FBI), 1999 (regards FBI assessment of domestic terrorism; contains correspondence from John Birch Society); Military Tribunals (op-ed of Rush Limbaugh (Washington Post), Robert H. Bork article on terrorism); op-ed of Oliver North (Washington Times); correspondence from Ron Paul; NRA, Charlton Heston and Wayne LaPierre; Privacy-SPCH. Eagle Forum Friday, September 20, 2002 (correspondence from Phyllis Schlafly); Terrorism; U.N. Small Arms Conf., NY, July 2001 (Oliver North op-ed; Phyllis Schlafly Report); USA Patriot Act; correspondence from Attorney General John Ashcroft; and WTO [World Trade Organization], 2002 (Oliver North editorial). Series VI: Jonathan Blythe Files, Boxes 663-666, contains files on Americans for Tax Reform and Free Congress Foundation. Series VII: Personal Files, Boxes 667-677, contains files on Newt Gingrich; Human Events - Impeachment; National ID Card; ACU; ATA; Bill Archer; John Ashcroft; Haley Barbour; Bob Barr; Jonathan Blythe; Robert H. Bork; Patrick Buchanan; Dan Burton; George W. Bush; CPAC; CATO Institute; William Jefferson Clinton; D.O.M.A.; Alan Dershowitz; Dr. James C. Dobson; Robert K. Dornan; Eagle Forum; Equality Amendment; Euthanasia; Louis Farrakhan; Freemen-Montana; Milton Friedman; Gingrich; Phil Gramm; Joerg Haider; Orrin Hatch; Jesse Helms; Charlton Heston; Hillsdale College; David Horowitz; Hyde; John Birch Society; Ted Kennedy; Wayne LaPierre; Rush Limbaugh; Trent Lott; Lester Maddox; Marriage Defense Act; McVeigh Execution; Meese; MEGIDDO Project; Militias; Lyn Nofziger; Grover Norquist; Oliver North; NRA; Ron Paul; Ronald Reagan; Richard B. Russell; Phyllis Schlafly; Tyrrell; U.N.; USA Patriot Act; Viguerie; I.D. Voter; Waco; Washington Times; Annie Belle Weaver; and Young America's Foundation.

Finding aid:

http://uwg.galileo.usg.edu/uwg/view?docId=ead/POL-0005-15-ead.xml

[0239] Jesse William Barrett Papers, 1905-1953, C9

Location: The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Description: Barrett (1884-1953) was a St. Louis lawyer and politician; attorney general of Missouri, 1921-1925; Republican candidate for governor in 1936. The Republican Party Series contains correspondence, clippings, campaign material, speeches, invitations, and reports on Barrett's activities in the Republican Party of Missouri. Correspondents include Herbert Hoover, Edgar Queeny, and Robert Taft. Subjects include Anti-Semitism, Missouri, 1935, Charles Edward Coughlin, Fascism, Frank Ernest Gannett, Herbert Hoover, Alfred Mossman Landon, Opposition to New Deal, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, John B. Snow, Robert A. Taft, and Treaty of Versailles.

Websites with information:

http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/descriptions/desc-gov.html

Finding aid:

http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/0009.pdf

[0240] Russell H. Barrett Collection, 1956-1974, MUM00024 [partly digital collection]

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

Description: Russell H. Barrett (1919- ) was a professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, 1954-1976, and author of the 1965 book Integration at Ole Miss. Much of the collection pertains to the integration of Ole Miss by James Meredith in September 1962, and the riots that ensued on campus and in the town of Oxford. Barrett's support for integration was actively opposed by groups such as the Citizens' Council. Includes personal papers, pamphlets, reports, manuscripts, sermons, and other materials on various topics such as academic freedom on college campuses and the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Includes Washington Report from John Stennis, 18 December 1963 and 28 May 1964; The Dan Smoot Report re: UM Integration, October 8 & 15, 1962; Granite, published by the University of Mississippi Young Americans for Freedom, 17 March 1969; K. K. K. Rally Leaflet, Sardis, MS, 7 October 1967; John Birch Society pamphlet, undated; "Famous Quotations," pamphlets quoting Theodore Bilbo and Henry Grady, printed by The Citizens' Council, undated; Reprints from The Pascagoula Chronicle re: Carleton Putnam's Race and Reason, 1963 [online at http://www.thechristianidentityforum.net/downloads/Race-Reason.pdf]; and material re: Communism in the United States.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/university-of-mississippi/manuscript?­page=show

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/politics/manuscript-20th?page=show

Finding aid:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00024.html

[0241] Bryton Barron Papers, 1923-1967, Coll. Ax 463

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

Description: Bryton Barron (1898- ) was a teacher, a writer, a civil servant, a publisher and political conservative. In 1929 he joined the State Department as assistant editor, became chief of the Treaty Section, and finally member of the Historical Division, where he helped compile the Yalta papers. Mr. Barron, before he retired last week after twenty six years in the department, protested the delay in publishing the papers and charged that important documents were being censored. After leaving the State Department in 1956, he commenced lecturing and writing critically about the Department and United States foreign policy generally. Barron founded a publishing company, Crestwood Books, in 1962, as a publishing vehicle for his and similar books. In 1960-1961 he was coordinator in Virginia for the John Birch Society. The collection includes correspondence, writings, reports and newspaper clippings. The papers contain correspondence with American Opinion, National Review, Herbert Hoover, Robert Welch, Willis A. Carto, Clare Hoffman, and Dan Smoot. There are materials relating to the John Birch Society, Christian Crusade (Billy James Hargis), Conservative Society of America (Kent Courtney), We, The People (Harry T. Everingham), American Coalition of Patriotic Societies (Milton M. Lory), Anti-Communist Liaison (Edward Hunter), and publication of the Malta and Yalta conference record.

Reference:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library, compiled by Martin Schmitt (Eugene, University of Oregon, 1971), http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/schmitt.pdf.

Finding aids:

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-barron-bryton-papers/

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124/op=pretrieve.aspx

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124

[0242] David P. Barrows papers, 1890-1954, 1890-1954, BANC MSS C-B 1005

Location: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Description: Barrows (1873-1954) was president of the University of California, 1919-1923, and professor of political science, 1924-1943. The collection includes letters written to him and copies of his replies; diaries and notebooks; biographical sketches and obituaries; personalia; bibliographies; MSS, tear sheets and reprints of his writings; speeches and radio addresses; collegiate class notes; lectures, with related notes, syllabi, etc. for courses taught by him; MSS and clippings of his syndicated INS articles on world affairs; subject files reflecting his many interests, activities and associations; scrapbooks; and clippings. Correspondence from American Coalition (John B. Trevor) (a letter protesting against the President's proposal to pack the Supreme Court), Charles Austin Beard, Charles Matthias Goethe, Herbert Clark Hoover, William Fife Knowland, Clare Boothe Luce, National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government (Frank E. Gannett), John Francis Neylan, Franklin Roosevelt, and Burton Kendall Wheeler.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2f59n67s/entire_text/

[0243] E.L. "Bob" Bartlett Papers, 1926-1964, USUAF53

Location: Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775

Description: Bartlett (1904-1968) was secretary of the Territory of Alaska, and delegate to Congress, and U.S. senator. The majority of the material in the Bartlett papers relates to Bartlett's political career, and focuses on his participation as Delegate and Senator to the 79th through the 90th sessions of Congress (1945-1968). As Alaska Delegate, Bartlett spearheaded the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 that allowed Alaska to care for their mentally ill citizens. Assisting him in this endeavor was Representative Edith Green of Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, memos, congressional records, legislative bills and acts, House and Senate reports, audits, and clippings. Includes correspondence between Delegate Bartlett and Rep. Green.

References:

Claus-M. Naske, "Bob Bartlett and the Alaska Mental Health Act," The Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jan. 1980), pp. 31-39; Research Guide to Alaska Mental Health History Sources, Compiled by Lisa Morris (2010), http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/sites/default/files/projects/MH_reseach_guide_July2010.pdf

Websites with information:

http://library.uaf.edu/apr-collections-political

https://library.uaf.edu/apr-collections-political

Finding Aid:

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv11987/

[0243a] William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, 1975-1988, Coll. 91022

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

Description: William Warren Bartley (1934-1990) was a professor and American philosopher who edited works by Karl Popper and Friedrich A. von Hayek. He was the editor of Hayek's The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (London, 1988), a book which discusses Hayek's view of socialism, defining the fatal conceit as the idea that "man is able to shape the world according to his wishes" (p. 27). The papers consist of drafts, galleys, proofs, memoranda, and correspondence related to production of The Fatal Conceit; and sound recordings of speeches and lectures by F. A. von Hayek, Bernard Siegan, Martin Larson, F. A. Harper, Murray Rothbard, William Hutt, and others related to laissez-faire economics.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9f59s0t0/entire_text/

[0244] Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999, MS#1483

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 6th Floor East Butler Library, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027

Description: Jacques Martin Barzun (1907-2012) was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, contains correspondence with Charles Austin Beard, William Frank Buckley, Jr., Nicholas Murray Butler, Max Eastman, Milton Stover Eisenhower, T. S. Eliot, Granville Hicks, Hamilton Holt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Robinson Luce, Marshall McLuhan, Henry Louis Mencken, Norman Podhoretz, and Peter Viereck.

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628/

[0244a] Ewing Cannon Baskette collection of print materials, 1902-1959, 02/Baskette

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 346 Main Library (MC-522), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Description: Ewing Cannon Baskette (1902-1958), a lawyer, librarian, and bibliographer, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Series 1: Correspondence, 1821-1976, contains letters to Baskette from Harry Elmer Barnes, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, H. L. Mencken, and Wendell L. Willkie. Vertical file materials on topics including American heritage (Patriotism); Americans for Moral Decency; Anti-Communist Movements (conservatism, political right); Anti-Semitism; Bible (Fundamentalism); Catholic Church – Controversial Literature (anti-Catholic literature); Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights; Communism – Russia; Communism – United States; Clarence Seward Darrow; Discrimination; Espionage; Eugenics and Birth Control; Fascism; National Organization for Decent Literature; Religion and state (Church and state); Sabotage; Scopes Trial; Sedition; Gerald L. K. Smith (McClanahan recall); and Unamerican activity investigations (Subversive activities).

Websites with information:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/collections_manuscript_collections.html

http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/collections/about/special.html

Finding aid:

http://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=33

Baskette collection finding lists:

http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-03/baskettecollecti00univ/baskettecollecti00univ_djvu.txt

http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2008-03/baskettecollecti00univ/baskettecollecti00univ.pdf

[0245] Cartoon Collection of Gene Basset, MS 90-22 [cartoons]

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068

Description: An award-winning cartoonist, Gene Basset (1927- ) has been cartooning professionally since 1961. Basset's cartoons in this collection were originally submitted to The Scripps-Howard Newspapers in Washington, D.C., as editorial cartoons. The collection includes cartoons from March 16, 1963, to October 17, 1973.

Websites with information:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-b.html

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol1.html

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/mscrcol3.html

Finding aid:

http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/90-22/90-22-A.HTML

[0246] Gene Basset Editorial Cartoons, 1984-1992 [cartoons]

Location: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, 300 S Hull St, Athens, GA 30605

Description: Gene Basset (1927– ) was chief editorial cartoonist for Scripps-Howard Newspapers for nineteen years and an editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal from 1982 to 1992. The collection consists of ink drawings, pencil sketches, negatives, and plates of editorial cartoons by Gene Basset from 1984 to 1992. Subject content relates to state and local (Atlanta-Fulton County) politics and feature such topics as public transportation, pension padding, and political corruption. Subjects of the cartoons include Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Newt Gingrich, Ku Klux Klan, Lester Maddox, Congressman Larry McDonald, Segregationist Zell Miller, Richard Nixon, Oliver North, President Ronald Reagan, Senator Talmadge, and Robert Welch, head of the John Birch Society.

Finding aid:

http://russelldoc.galib.uga.edu/russell/view?docId=ead/RBRL009GB-ead.xml

[0247] Gene Basset Papers, 1962-1969 [cartoons; partly digital collection]

Location: Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, 222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010

Description: Gene Basset (1927- ) is an American cartoonist primarily known for his editorial cartoons. In 1962, after a brief stint as the Honolulu Star Bulletin's first editorial cartoonist, Basset became the chief editorial cartoonist with Scripps-Howard newspapers. Original artwork for over 1,200 syndicated editorial cartoons and proofs. These cartoons were drawn by Basset while he was with Scripps-Howard. Subjects of the cartoons include American Independent Party, Ross Barnett, black racism, Dean Burch, civil rights, Communism, Everett Dirksen, Dwight Eisenhower, extremism, Barry Goldwater, gun control, Adolf Hitler, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, integration in schools, John Birch Society, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Curtis LeMay, Lester Maddox, James Meredith, Nazism, Richard Nixon, race relations, racism, Ronald Reagan, Richard Russell, school desegregation, school prayer, Clay Shaw, John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, White Power, white racism, and white supremacy.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?brand=ead;collection=ead;sort=title;titleAlpha=GG;

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm

Finding aids:

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/basset_g.htm

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/basset_g_prt.htm

Digital exhibit: Draw Your Own Conclusions Political Cartooning Then and ?—Gene Basset:

http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/c/cartoonists/basset.htm

[0248] JD du P (Japie) Basson Collection

Location: Manuscripts Section, Special Collection Division, JS Gericke Library, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X5036, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa

Description: Jacob Daniël Du Plessis Basson (1918-2012) was an advocate, politician, and writer. In 1950, Basson was elected to represent the National Party of the Namib constituency in parliament. Nine years later he was expelled from the party by Dr H.F. Verwoerd after he openly expressed opinions against apartheid. In 1985, he joined the National Party (NP) after the announcement that apartheid would come to an end. The collection consists of correspondence, books, articles, commission reports, newspaper clippings, speeches, parliamentary documents, information on South African and international politics and political parties, personal documents, pamphlets, journals, and cartoons from newspapers.

Websites with information:

http://blogs.sun.ac.za/news/2011/06/18/su-unveils-japie-basson-collection/

http://library.sun.ac.za/English/aboutus/collections/sc/Pages/manuscripts.aspx

[0249] The Private Collection of J. D. du P. Basson, 1917-1973, PV58

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: Private papers of J.D. du P. Basson (1918-2012), political journalist for the Suiderstem [1940], chief organiser United Party Youth League Cape Province [1942], chief secretary United National South West Party. He joined the National Party in 1949 as MP for the Namib [1950-1961]. He was suspended from the National Party in 1959. He and Judge H. A. Fagan formed the National Union [Party] in 1960, MP Bezuidenhout [1961-1980], member of the President's Council [1981-1984, 1986-1989]. Files on Afrikaner Broederbond, Apartheid, Herstigte Nasionale Party, Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, Nasionale Party (National Party), and H. F. Verwoerd.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=196

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

Finding aid:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/dl/userfiles/Documents/00001/1168_eng.pdf

[0250] Evhen Batchinsky fonds, 1736-1975

Location: Archives and Research Collections, Room 581, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa ON K1S 5B6, Canada

Description: Ehven Batchinsky (1885-1978) was an influential political activist dedicated to the liberation of the Ukrainian National Republic. The collection contains material on Ukrainian history and politics from the late nineteenth century to World War II. Material on Ukrainian émigré activity from the late nineteenth century to 1956 is also included. The series Biographical Dossiers contains files on Stepan Bandera, Corneliu Codreanu, and Ivan S. Tokarzhev'kyi-Karashevych (Jan Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz). The series Minor Files contains a file on The Jewish Question: articles and documents from 1933 to 1938, largely anti-Semitic.