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

ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

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[0001] ABC Radio Collection, 1943-1971, RG 200 ABC [sound recordings]

Location: Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch, National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001

Description: 27,000 radio broadcasts of news and public affairs programs from 1943 to 1971. This collection includes approximately 350 ABC audio sound recordings of 15-minute radio broadcasts by Drew Pearson numbering approximately 350 items spanning May 13, 1945, to December 28, 1952.

Websites with information:

http://www.archives.gov/research/guides/catalog-film-sound-video.html

http://www.library.american.edu/pearson/other_collections.html

[0002] ADAH Vertical File Pamphlet Collection [partially digital collection]

Location: Alabama Department of Archives and History, P.O. Box 300100, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Description: Contains copies of Kloran, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ([Atlanta] Ku Klux Press, c1916); Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan ([S.l.: s.n., 194-?]); The public school problem in America: outlining fully the policies and the program of the Knights of Ku Klux Klan toward the public school system, by H.W. Evans ([United States]: K.K.K., c1924); Ku Klux Klan [by Mrs. S.E.F. Rose ([West Point, Miss.] West Point Leader Print [1909]); and A Ku Klux uniform, by Elizabeth M. Howe ([Buffalo, N.Y., 1921]).

Catalogue search engine:

http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/­search.do?vid=01ALABAMA

Finding aid to digital collection:

Includes a copy of An open letter on suffrage restriction, and against certain proposals of the platform of the State Convention, by Edgar Gardner Murphy (1901) [opposing the platform of Alabama Democratic State Convention to limit black suffrage and opposing white supremacy]

http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/search/searchterm/"Vertical%20File%20Pamphlet%20Collection"/order/date

[0003] ALERT (Against Legalised Euthanasia Research and Teaching) Records

Location: ALERT, 27 Walpole Street, London, SW3 4QS, UK

Description: ALERT (Against Legalised Euthanasia Research and Teaching), created in 1991, is a UK campaigning organisation opposing euthanasia and related practices, such as living wills. It provides information, and co-ordinates concerned individuals and organisations. ALERT defines euthanasia as 'any action or omission which is intended to end the life of a patient.' The records include correspondence, promotional material, and other publications.

Websites with information:

http://www.alertuk.org/index.htm

http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/record_details.asp?recordType=ngo&id=31

http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/record_details.asp?id=60&recordType=coll

http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O118506

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/N13553312

[0003a] ARS Audiotape Collection, 1900-1991, Coll. ARS.0070

Location: Archive of Recorded Sound, Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3076

Description: Miscellaneous tape recordings, mostly small donations, that span the history of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Recordings include Thomas Edison, "Let us not forget" speech (1919); speeches by Francisco Franco; Giovinezza, Inno Dei Fascisti (Fascist marching anthem); Adolf Hitler pre-war speeches (tape); Herbert Hoover recordings; Ku Klux Klan songs from Louisiana; the speech of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh - delivered in the Arena in St. Louis 1941-05-10 (tape); Malcolm Muggeridge Interview 1962-12-24; Ezra Pound, Le Testament de Francois Villon, BBC performance 1962-07 (tape); and speech by G. Sokolsky to Lions Club.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8f769x2/entire_text/

[0004] Abele vs. Markle records, 1947-1981 (bulk 1970-1975), RG 009 006

Location: Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106

Description: The Abele vs. Markle court case challenged whether Connecticut's anti-abortion law was constitutional. The civil case was argued before the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court from March 2, 1971 to April 26, 1973. Series 3. Correspondence, 1970-1980, include correspondence between the Attorney General's Office and Hiltz Publishing Company, "Life or Death", circa 1972 [by Dr. & Mrs. J. C. Willke (1972)]; The New York Legal Defense and Education Fund for the Unborn; Pro-Life Council of Connecticut; and The Value of Life Committee.

Finding aids:

http://www.cslib.org/archives/finding_aids/rg009_006.html

http://www.ctstatelibrary.org/RG009_006.html

[0005] William Aberhart fonds, ca. 1885-1977 (bulk ca. 1918-1943), UARC 2005.075, 2006.010

Location: University of Calgary Archives, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, Canada

Description: William Aberhart (1878-1943) was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. Aberhart helped found the Social Credit Party of Alberta, which won the 1935 provincial election and remained in power in the province until the 1971 election. Fonds contains speeches and publications pertaining to Aberhart's political career and research notes, sermons and other material pertaining to his involvement with the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, the "Back to the Bible Hour" and other groups. Includes a copy of Social Credit Manual (1935), a manual written by William Aberhart applying Social Credit principles to the province of Alberta.

Websites with information:

http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/william-aberhart-fonds-2

http://archives.ucalgary.ca/private

http://www.asc.ucalgary.ca/collections/archival/political

https://asc.ucalgary.ca/collections/archival/political

Finding aid:

http://archives.ucalgary.ca/files/lcr_archives/aberhart-2005.075-2006.010.pdf

[0006] William Aberhart fonds, 1897-1965, PR1982

Location: Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Rd NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 5W1, Canada

Description: The fonds consists of records of William Aberhart (1878-1943) relating to his involvement in education, religion, and Social Credit, and includes pamphlets and published material, notes and speeches, audio tapes, correspondence, photographs of family and his public life.

Websites with information:

https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR1982&dv=True&deptID=1

http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/Outputs.asp?sessionKey=1143825756048_206_191_57_199&l=-1&coll=1&itm=143973&av=2&f=2&hdg=0&tihdg=0&i=&rt=1

[0007] William Aberhart fonds, 1928-1971 (bulk 1935-1966), GLEN glen-1 [partly digital collection]

Location: Glenbow Archives, 130 - 9 Avenue S.E., Calgary, Alberta, T2G 0P3, Canada

Description: William "Bible Bill" Aberhart (1878-1943), a radio broadcaster, became interested in the monetary ideas of Major C.H. Douglas in 1932. Douglas espoused state supervision of credit and dividend payments to citizens. Aberhart founded the Social Credit League, and in 1935 became the premier of Alberta when Social Credit swept the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) government from power. The government was unable to implement Aberhart's proposed reforms because the legislation was disallowed by the federal government. Aberhart died in office. Series 1. Memorabilia related to Aberhart.—1928-1971, contains a lecture on Social Credit, given by Aberhart in Edmonton on May 23, 1935. Series 3. Radio broadcasts.—1936-1952, contains recorded radio broadcasts (1936-1940). Series 4. Scanned Document Other records related to Aberhart at Glenbow. --1935-1940, contains transcripts of William Aberhart's radio broadcasts, March-July 1935, made from the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute under the auspices of the Alberta Social Credit League.

Websites with information:

http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/william-aberhart-fonds

http://glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/index.cfm

http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/index.cfm

Finding aid:

http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/aberhart.cfm

[0008] Thomas G. Abernethy Collection, 1924-1975 (1943-1972 bulk), MUM00001 [partly digital collection]

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

Description: Thomas G. Abernethy (1903-1998) represented Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1943 and 1973. The collection contains copies of ACA Index (Americans for Constitutional Action), Liberty Ledger (Liberty Lobby), and Dan Smoot Report, all of which contain voting records ratings. Also, letters from Rep. John M. Ashbrook, Theo G. Bilbo, J. P. Coleman, Rep. William M. Colmer, Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn, Sen. James O. Eastland, J. Edgar Hoover, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox, John E. Rankin, Senator John Stennis, Rep. Jamie L. Whitten, and Rep. John Bell Williams. Files on Anti-Lynch, 1946-1956; Association of Citizens' Councils of Mississippi; Ezra Taft Benson; John Birch Society; Brannan Farm Bill; Bricker Amendment—Judiciary Committee, 1954-1955; Catholic Freedoms Foundation; Citizens' Council, 1964-1967; The Committee of One Million; Communism, including "The Coming Red Dictatorship" broadside; Integration in Mississippi Schools, 1965; Integration—University of Mississippi; Ku Klux Klan (copy of Robert M. Shelton letter to President Nixon, 29 January 1969); Ku Klux Klan Investigation, Un-American Activities Committee; Fulton Lewis Questionnaire; Little Rock, Arkansas—Civil Rights; MacArthur Incident; Dr. Carl McIntire—Federal Communications Commission; James Meredith; Poll Tax, 1943-1952; Poll Tax—Anti-Lynch & Cloture; Segregation—Mr. Hodding Carter; States Rights; and Taft-Hartley Act. Copy of newspaper clipping, "The Motes and the Beams: In Defense of Mississippi," by James J. Kilpatrick, The Roanoke Times, January 8, 1965. Copies of Behind Communism, by Frank L. Britton; "Full Text of MacArthur Hearings," U.S. News and World Report (on the firing of Douglas MacArthur); and "How Red Is The Federal (National) Council of Churches?" (American Council of Christian Laymen, 1959).

Websites with information:

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/MUM00001.html

Finding aids to digital collection:

http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/abernethy

http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/search/collection/abernethy

[0008a] Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection, 1835-2000, ABER MS MISC

Location: Special Collections & Archives, Davis Family Library 101, 110 Storrs Avenue, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753

Description: This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Files on Louis Agassiz, Henry Louis Mencken, Richard Nixon, Ezra Loomis Pound, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, George Santayana, and Oswald Garrison Villard.

Finding aid:

http://archivesspace.middlebury.edu/repositories/2/resources/128

[0009] Abortion Action Coalition records, 1970-1982, M21 [partly digital collection]

Location: Archives and Special Collections, 92 Snell Library, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115

Description: The Abortion Action Coalition (AAC), a project of the Women's Educational Center (Cambridge, MA), was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1977 to oppose the Doyle-Flynn anti-abortion amendment, which proposed cutting state funding for abortions, following the national adoption of the Hyde Amendment, which allowed states to restrict Medicaid payments for abortions. The Abortion Action Coalition disbanded in 1980. Records include Abortion Action Coalition brochures, articles on abortion and women's health issues, clippings, contact and membership lists, correspondence, flyers, "how to" media packets, information on clinics, minutes, organizing materials, pamphlets, data about abortion and women's health legislation during the 1970s, and speeches. Series 3. Subject Files, 1970-1980, contains files on the Anti-Abortion Movement, including "Arguments in Opposition to the Public Funding of Abortion" (ca. 1970); Financing the Anti-Abortion Movement: Excerpts (ca. 1970); "Massachusetts Citizens for Life" (2 folders) (ca. 1977); "The Monstrosity of Planned Parenthood" (ca. 1970); "National Right to Life News" for April and September 1978; Notes on Articles and Conferences (ca. 1970); Pamphlets (1978-1981); Price List from Phyllis Schlafly Report (ca. 1970); "The Right-Wing Attack on Women" (1979); Rockford College Institute: Brochures (1978); "Testimony on Proposed Abortion Amendment Excerpted" (1974); "Voice for the Unconceived": Newsletter (1970); and "Who Are the Right-to-Lifers' and What Do They Want?": Draft (ca. 1970).

Websites with information:

http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collections/manuscript_collections/

http://library.northeastern.edu/archives-special-collections/find-collections/by-subject-0

http://library.northeastern.edu/archives-special-collections/find-collections/boston-history/a-z-index-of-boston-history-collections

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/70940012

http://www.worldcat.org/title/records-1977-1980/oclc/70940012

Finding aids:

http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m21find.htm

http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m21findseries.htm

http://www.library.neu.edu/archives/collect/findaids/m21findprint.htm

Finding aid to microfilm edition of Grassroots Feminist Organizations. Part 1: Boston Area Second Wave Organizations, 1968-1998 (Woodbridge, CT, Primary Source Media, 2008):

http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/3312000C.pdf

Finding aid to digital exhibit We Raise Our Voices...Reproductive Rights:

http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/voices/w-reproductive-intro.htm

[0010] Abortion Collection, 1936-1995, MS 428

Location: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Description: Primarily printed materials, plus legislative records, memorabilia, and audiovisual materials documenting the efforts of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. Series V. Opposition, contains a file on Black Americans for Life; books, including Lime 5, Exploited by Choice, by Mark Crutcher (Denton, Tex.: Life Dynamics, Inc., 1996); The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of World Population Control, by Jacqueline Kasun (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988); Pro-Life Feminism: Different Voices, ed. Gail Grenier Sweet (Toronto: Life Cycle Books, 1985); and Behind Every Story is A Choice, by Gloria Feldt (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002); and videotapes, including A Doctor Explains the Abortion Procedure; Meet the Abortion Providers; Project Truth; The Right Choice; Silent Scream; and Window to the Womb.

Websites with information:

https://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/list/

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/list/

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/49695963

http://www.worldcat.org/title/abortion-collection-1936-1995/oclc/49695963

Finding aids:

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss79_main.html

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss79.html

[0011] Fondo Giano Accame, 1946-2009

Location: Fondazione Ugo Spirito e Renzo de Felice, Via Genova, 24, 00184 Roma, Italy

Description: Giano Accame (1928-2009) was a journalist and writer on politics and economics. He was an editor of Il Secolo d'Italia from 1988 to 1990. In 1946 he joined the Fronte dell'italiano, which later merged with Movimento sociale italiano (MSI), but left MSI in 1968. Serie 1: Attività di pubblicista, contains correspondence with Pino Rauti and Stefano Delle Chiaie. Serie 3: Corrispondenza, 1948-2008, contains correspondence with Giorgio Almirante, Giacinto Auriti, William Frank Buckley, Jr., Renzo De Felice, Carlo Delcroix, John Dos Passos, Luca Gallesi, Ezio Maria Gray, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Pino Rauti, Tomislav Sunic, Duilio Susmel, and Giovanni Volpe.

Reference:

Massimo Bacigalupo, "Giano Accame [1928-2009] In Memoriam," Paideuma, 36 (2007-2009): 255-61, online at http://www.flashpointmag.com/accamememoriam.htm

Websites with information:

http://catalogo.archividelnovecento.it/Spirito.htm

http://www.fondazionespirito.it/sito2012/archiviostorico.asp

Finding aid:

http://catalogo.archividelnovecento.it/scripts/GeaCGI.exe?REQSRV=REQEXPLORE&ID=490434820

http://catalogo.archividelnovecento.it/scripts/GeaCGI.exe?REQSRV=REQEXPLORE&ID=490434820&LEV=2&SORT=

[0012] Accuracy in Academia records, 1986-2001, MSS 2302

Location: 20th &21st Century Western and Mormon Americana, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, 1130 HBLL, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602

Description: Accuracy in Academia (AIA) was founded in 1985 by columnist and former Federal Reserve economist Reed Irvine as an outgrowth of Accuracy in Media. It is a watchdog group for political correctness on university campuses. The AIA is run by executive director Daniel J. Flynn, the author of the book Why the Left Hates America. The AIA is opposed to multicultural education and abortion. Correspondence and research files, issues of Campus Report, brochures, and cassette tapes marked "AIA spy tapes."

Websites with information:

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

Finding aids:

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%202302

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2302.xml

[0013] Accuracy in Media records, 1969-2011, MSS 2194

Location: L. Tom Perry Special Collections; Arts & Communications Archives; 1130 Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah 84602

Description: Accuracy In Media (AIM) is an conservative American news media watchdog founded in 1969 by economist Reed Irvine. Collection includes correspondence, publications, research files, Media Monitor papers, and video and audio tapes covering Accuracy in Media activities. Files on AIM Reports, Allan Brownfeld, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Joseph C. Goulden, Senator Hatch, John Hemingway, Daniel C. Holdgreiwe, Reed Irvine, Cliff Kinkaid, Deborah Lambert, Mont Pèlerin, National Foundation of Decency, National Review, Ed Staples, James Tyson, Bernard Yoh, and Joan Yoh.

Reference:

William Gillis, "Say No to the Liberal Media: Conservatives and Criticism of the News Media in the 1970s" (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2013), https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/17960/Gillis_indiana_0093A_1237

3.pdf.

Websites with information:

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

Finding aids:

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%202194

http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2194.xml

[0014] Carl W. Ackerman Papers, 1833-1970 (bulk 1931-1956), MSS50039

Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

Description: Carl W. Ackerman (1890-1970) was a journalist, educator, and public relations consultant. In 1919, in stories printed in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia and carried by other newspapers, Ackerman published the first excerpts of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in English translation, removing references to Jews so that the plot described in the Protocols seemed to be a Bolshevist affair. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Ackerman's career as a journalist and dean of Columbia University School of Journalism. The series General Correspondence, 1907-1970, contains files on William Edgar Borah, Spruille Braden, Nicholas Murray Butler, Josephus Daniels, Kenneth de Courcy, Thomas E. Dewey, Bonner F. Fellers, Frank Gannett, Joseph C. Grew, Herbert Hoover, Roy Wilson Howard, Alfred M. Landon, David Lawrence, Isaac Don Levine, Charles A. Lindbergh, Robert A. Millikan, Felix Morley, Westbrook Pegler, Kenneth L. Roberts, and Morris Ryskind. The series Subject File, 1908-1970, contains files on William Benton; Bolshevism, 1919; William Edgar Borah speech, 22 Sept. 1935; Spruille Braden; Nicholas Murray Butler; Virginius Dabney; John A. Danaher; Thomas E. Dewey; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938-1941; Foreign Press Association, 1943-1946; James Forrestal; Joseph C. Grew; William Randolph Hearst; Herbert Hoover, The Problems of Lasting Peace, correspondence 1942; Roy Wilson Howard; Institute of Pacific Relations; David Lawrence; Lend-Lease Bill (H.R. 1776), 1941; Henry R. Luce; John J. McCloy; Robert R. McCormick; Robert A. Millikan; Raymond Moley; A. Cressy Morrison; New York Tribune, Garet Garrett, 1917; Pearl Harbor, May 1945; Westbrook Pegler; Kermit Roosevelt; John Spargo; Voice of America; Burton K. Wheeler; William Allen White; Alexander Wiley; and Wendell Willkie. The series Speech, Article, and Book File, 1909-1964, contains a copy of Amos A. Fries, "The Future of Poison Gas," Current History, Dec. 1921, and files on Bohemian Club, San Francisco, Calif.; James F. Byrnes; Josephus Daniels; Joseph C. Grew; Herbert Hoover; and Alfred M. Landon.

Reference:

Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1967), p. 156.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/c

http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

Finding aids:

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011056

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011056.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011056.pdf

[0015] John and Jane Adams Ephemera Collection, 1856-1996 (bulk 1880-1982), MS-0384

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050, San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Description: John and Jane Adams collected ephemera among other areas of collecting. The series Political 1903-1996, subseries Campaign Mailers 1903-1992, contains files on Alert America Association, American Conservative Union, American Committee on Immigration Policies, John Ashbrook, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Citizen's Foreign Aid Committee, Conservative Book Club, Council for Statehood, Federation for Constitutional Government, First National Directory, Freedom Bulletin, Barry Goldwater, Jesse Helms, The Herald of Freedom, Human Events, The Independent American, International Youth Federation For Freedom, John Birch Society, William F. Knowland, Alfred Landon, The Manion Forum, Minutemen, National Coalition of American Patriots, National Economic Council, The National Program Letter, The National Right to Work Committee, National Tax Limitation Committee, The New Right, Omni Publications, John Rousselot, The Spotlight, Think!, United States Anti-Communist Congress, George C. Wallace, and Albert Wedemeyer.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8416zrt/entire_text/