Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Websites with information:
http://library.brown.edu/riamco/search.php?keywords1=US-RPPC&field1=institution_id&operand1=PHRASE
http://www.providence.edu/library/spcol/Pages/browsecollections.aspx
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/501049981
http://www.worldcat.org/title/guide-to-the-louis-f-budenz-papers-1912-1971/oclc/501049981
Finding aids:
http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RPPC-budenz.pdf
http://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=spcol_findingaids
http://library.brown.edu/riamco/render.php?eadid=US-RPPC-budenz&view=title
http://library.brown.edu/riamco/mkpdf.php?eadd=US-RPPC-budenz
[0419] Raymond Leslie Buell Papers, 1915-1984 (bulk 1920-1946), MSS61465
Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680
Description: Buell (1896-1946) was an educator, lecturer, and publicist; active in international affairs. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, statements, writings, subject files, and other papers relating to Buell's career as a writer and speaker on international affairs, to his travels, and to his activities with the Foreign Policy Association and the Republican Party. Correspondence with American Mercury, Lawrence Dennis, Institute of Pacific Relations, Walter H. Judd, Alfred M. Landon, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry Robinson Luce, Henry J. Taylor, Burton K. Wheeler, Alexander Wiley, and Wendell L. Willkie,. Subject Files on Communism, Dumbarton Oaks proposals, and Nazism.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html
Finding aids:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011006
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011006.3
[0420] John Allen Buggs Papers, 1939-1964
Location: Amistad Research Center, Inc., Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70118
Description: The papers of John Allen Buggs (1915-1974) document his career as an educator and school administrator. The collections consists of 4,000 items or 3.2 linear feet. There are 2,560 pieces of correspondence, 46 multi-page reports, 240 general single-page reports, 25 essays, and approximately 1,000 general items such as financial reports, bulletins, pamphlets, invitations, announcements, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, lists, press releases, and biographical sheets. Within the papers is a collection of "hate literature" from neo-Nazi, anti-Communist, Jewish, and African American organizations.
Finding aid:
http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=32&q=&rootcontentid=17571
[0420a] Robert Johns Bulkley Papers, 1886-1967, MS 3310
Location: Western Reserve Historical Society, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
Description: Robert Johns Bulkley (1880-1965) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and businessman who served as a United States Congressman (1910-1914) and Senator (1930-1939). Bulkley was an ardent supporter of the New Deal. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, notes, reports, certificates, personal and miscellaneous printed items relating to Bulkley's personal, political and business activities. Series I: Correspondence, 1886-1967; undated, contains correspondence relating to the anti-Catholic publication The Menace, to proposed anti-miscegenation laws, and to allegations by the Harvard "Veritas" association concerning Communist influences and Dr. Ralph Bunche. Series II: Non-Correspondence, 1893-1965; undated, contains speeches and other materials relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 attempt to reform the federal judiciary; speeches and public documents of Alexis Carrel; speeches and public releases by William E. Borah in 1931; a typescript copy of "The Truth About the New Deal" by H. A. Nickel; various proposals in pamphlet form for a Federal Reserve System; and a speech by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Finding aid:
http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi1911.xml
[0421] William C. Bullitt Papers, 1813-1998, bulk 1909-1967 (MS 112)
Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520
Description: In November 1933, Roosevelt appointed Bullitt the first U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In August 1936, Bullitt became the U.S. ambassador to France. Contains correspondence with Frank Altschul, Styles Bridges, William F. Buckley, Jr., William Henry Chamberlin, The Christianform, Council Against Communist Aggression, René De Chambrun, Max Eastman, Charles Edison, James Forrestal, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Sisley Huddleston, Edward Hunter, Walter H. Judd, George A. Judson, W. F. Knowland, Alfred Kohlberg, William L. Langer, Isaac Don Levine, Clare Boothe Luce, Eugene Lyons, Douglas MacArthur, George W. Malone, Joseph R. McCarthy, Raymond Moley, Robert Morris, Karl Mundt, Nicholas T. Nonnenmacher, Arthur W. Radford, Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Robert A. Taft, Dorothy Thompson, George Holden Tinkham, James P. Warburg, and Albert C. Wedemeyer.
Finding aids:
http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/fedora/get/mssa:ms.0112/PDF
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0112
[0422] Bunin family papers, 1795-1962, Coll. 90075
Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010
Description: Family of Boris Ivanovich Bunin, Russian émigrés in France and the United States. Writings, certificates, photographs, postcards, and miscellany, relating to social conditions and rural life in Russia before the Russian Revolution, Russian émigré life in France and the United States, and activities of the right-wing Russian émigré group Mladorosskaia Partiia in France between the two world wars.
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1k4031m6/entire_text/
Finding aids to photographs (90075 - 10.A-V):
22 prints of members of the right-wing Russian émigré group Mladorosskaia Partiia in France between the two world wars, undated.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt7c603790/entire_text/
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/90/kt7c603790/files/kt7c603790.pdf
[0422a] Oral History Interview with Col. Laurence E. Bunker [oral history]
Location: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 500 W. US Hwy 24, Independence, MO 64050
Description: Interview conducted in Independence, Missouri, on December 14, 1976, by Benedict K. Zobrist. Subjects discussed include John Chamberlain, Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, Harry S Truman, Military Intelligence Digest [i.e., Foreign Intelligence Digest], and General Charles Willoughby.
Transcript:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/bunker.htm
[0423] Papers of Colonel Laurence Eliot Bunker, USA, Aide de Camp to General MacArthur, 1943-1977, RG-45
Location: Archives and Library, MacArthur Memorial, 198 Bank St, Norfolk, VA 23510
Description: Laurence Eliot Bunker (1902-1977), a former personal aide to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, was a member of the editorial advisory committee of Robert Welch's American Opinion magazine; a member of Americans for Goldwater; and a member of the national advisory committee of Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade.
Websites with information:
http://www.macarthurmemorial.org/337/MacArthur-Memorial-Archives-and-Library
[0424] Dean Burch Papers, 1964-1973, FM MSS 142
Location: Arizona Collection, Arizona State University Libraries, P.O. Box 871006, Tempe, AZ 85287-1006 [former location was the Arizona Historical Foundation, which closed on June 8, 2012]
Description: Dean Burch (1927-1991) was an American lawyer and lobbyist. This collection focuses on two distinct periods in Burch's career: his chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (1964-1965) during the 1964 presidential campaign and its immediate aftermath, and his chairmanship of the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (1969-1973). Among the correspondents are William Buckley Jr., Charles Colson, Senator Barry Goldwater, and Senator Herman Talmadge. Files on the John Birch Society, Senator Knowland, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Ripon Society.
Finding aids:
http://www.ahfweb.org/download/Burch_MSS_142.pdf
http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/burch.xml&doc.view=print;chunk.id=0
[0424a] Quentin Burdick Papers, 1958-1992, OGLMC 204
Location: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202
Description: Quentin Burdick (1908-1992) served in the United States House of Representatives, 1958-1960, and the United States Senate, 1960-1992. Series II: Senate, 1960-1968. Sub-Series F: Subject Files. (1.) 1961-1962, contains files on Civil Rights, House Un-American Activities Committee, Connally Amendment, Communism, Human Events, and Socialized Medicine. (2.) 1963-1964, contains files on Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, Segregation, and Smoot Report. (3.) 1965-1966, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, McCarran Immigration Act, Smoot Report, and Taft-Hartley Act. (4.) 1966-1967, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, Smoot Report, and Taft-Hartley. (5.) 1968, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, and Smoot Report.
Websites with information:
https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/collections&char=B
Finding aids:
https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=697
http://library.und.edu/_files/docs/finding-aids/oglmc-0204.pdf
[0425] Usher L. Burdick Papers, 1897-1959, OGLMC0021
Location: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202
Description: The Usher L. Burdick Papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, speeches and addresses, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, text of bills and other government documents. Subjects include anti-UN correspondence and printed material; Brainwashing; Brannan Plan; Bricker Amendment; Communism; Garet Garrett; Great Conspiracy Speech, 1954 [Burdick, "The Great Conspiracy to Destroy the United States," The Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 83d Congress, Second Session, Wednesday, April 28, 1954, online at https://web.archive.org/web/20040107093315/http://www.libertygunrights.com/UsherBurdickSpeech.html]; Hilaire du Berrier; Douglas MacArthur; Joseph McCarthy; McCarthyism; Townsend Plan; UNESCO; and world government. Correspondents include West Wuichet.
Reference:
Bernard Lemelin, "Congressman Usher Burdick Of North Dakota and The 'Ungodly Menace': Anti-United Nations Rhetoric, 1950-1958," Great Plains Quarterly, 22 (Summer 2002): 163-81, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cg
i/viewcontent.cgi?article=3323&context=greatplainsquarterly.
Websites with information:
http://library.und.edu/special-collections/orin-g-libby/alphabetical.php
https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/classifications&id=1
https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/collections&char=B
Finding aids:
http://webapp.und.edu/dept/library/Collections/og21.html
https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=668&q=&rootcontentid=100371
[0426] Bureau of Applied Social Research Records, 1944-1976, MS#0166
Location: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries, 6th Fl. East, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027
Description: The Bureau of Applied Social Research, headed by sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, was established in 1944 and helped make Columbia a pioneering institution in the social sciences. Through empirical research, ideas regarding the functioning of individuals and groups were developed and tested. The records consist of project materials, including reports, monographs, books, articles, Masters essays, Doctoral dissertations, foreign publications, and audio-visual materials. Series I: Project Index, and Series III: Reports, contain Conrad Arensberg & [Charles Y.] Glock Extremist Organizations in Contemporary America, 1954) [This is a proposal for a program of research to evaluate the degree to which extremist groups or persons on the "right" threaten the traditional personal liberties of American life. Several working papers which discuss such topics as the historical background of reactionary politics, the "pseudo-conservative revolt," the activities of the radical right as a problem for American democracy, the evidence on clusters, syndromes and patterns in social attitudes, and anti-democratic attitudes in America as based on a public opinion poll are also contained in the project file.] Series VI: Articles, contains a copy of Seymour M. Lipset, "The Radical Right: A Problem for American Democracy," British Journal of Sociology, vol. 6, no. 2 (June 1955), pp. 176-209 [online at https://web.archi
ve.org/web/20150819021253/http://www.planethan.com/drupal/sites/default/files/radicalright.pdf].
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/index/nnc-rb/
Finding aid:
http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_5012632/
[0427] Edmund Burke Collection
Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Description: Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was an Irish-born author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig Party. This is a collection of early editions of Burke.
Finding aid:
http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/collections/irish_studies/burke.shtml
[0427a] Edmund Burke letters, 1762-1797, MS Hyde 67
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Description: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a Whig political philosopher. Among his many publications were A Vindication of Natural Society (1756), On Moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the American Colonies (1774), and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). He served in the Parliament from 1765 to 1794, and was an early member of the Literary Club in London, with Samuel Johnson. The collection consists of seventeen letters from Burke to a variety of correspondents.
Websites with information:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis
Finding aid:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00248
[0428] Edmund Burke Papers, MS-016
Location: Special Collections, Musselman Library, Fourth Floor. Gettysburg College, 300 North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325
Description: Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was a conservative political philosopher, theorist, statesman, Whig politician, and orator. The collection consists of 9 letters written to Burke, two undated notes in Burke's hand, and other documents.
Websites with information:
https://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/index.dot
Finding aids:
http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms016.dot
http://www.gettysburg.edu/dotAsset/d02fc749-6148-4ec5-a76f-2ada8747055e.pdf
http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=findingaidsall
[0428a] Papers of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) WWM/Bk P/1-50, in the Wentworth and Fitzwilliams families of Wentworth Woodhouse (also known as the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments), WWM
Location: Sheffield Archives, 52 Shoreham Street, Sheffield, S1 4SP, UK
Description: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was secretary to the 2nd Marquis of Rockingham, 1730-1782, Whig Prime Minister. The papers include between 2000 and 3000 letters to and from Burke, in a chronological sequence, 1744-1797, along with much associated correspondence. Notes on French, American and Irish affairs. Papers on a variety of political questions, and many other miscellaneous papers.
References:
Economists Papers (an electronic version of a finding aid originally published in 1975 as Economists' Papers 1750-1950; A Guide to Archive and other Manuscript Sources for the History of British and Irish Economic Thought), http://www.economistspapers.org.uk/; Leonard W. Cowie, Edmund Burke 1729-1797: A Bibliography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 16-25; Frans De Bruyn, "Selected Bibliography: Edmund Burke (1730-97)," http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/C18/biblio/burke.html.
Websites with information:
http://www.calmview.eu/SheffieldArchives/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=WWM&pos=12
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/4cbb35b7-bc15-4ddd-b2fc-cde08f2880f7
Microfilm edition:
Politics in the age of revolution, 1715-1848. Pt 1, The papers of Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, from Sheffield Archives and Northamptonshire Record Office (Adam Matthew Publications) [microfilm]
http://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/Pol-Rev-1-/description.aspx
http://www.ampltd.co.uk/collections_az/Pol-Rev-1-/highlights.aspx
[0428b] Edmund Burke papers, 1779-1825, MS Eng 961
Location: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Description: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a British statesman. The collection consists of 3 letters by Burke, and correspondence and documents concerning him, particularly papers pertaining to the posthumous publication of his works.
Websites with information:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis
Finding aid:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou01196
[0429] Ann Burlein Papers, 1992-1996, RH WL MS 43
Location: Wilcox Collection, Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045
Description: This collection contains photocopies of articles, pamphlets, and correspondence collected by Ann Burlein regarding Colorado for Family Values and Summit Ministries, organizations that fought against Amendment 2 in the 1992 Colorado general elections. Amendment 2, which would have given homosexuals special protection status against discrimination, passed by 54% of the general public but was ruled unconstitutional by the Colorado Supreme Court in 1994 because of an infringement on "equal participation in the political process." Includes photocopies of The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music, by David A. Noebel; Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles, by David A. Noebel; and The Homosexual Revolution, by David A. Noebel (1977) [online at https://web.archive.org/web/20010224095803/http://antipas.org:80/books/homo_revoluti
on/hr_toc.html].
Finding aid:
http://etext.ku.edu/view?docId=ksrlead/ksrl.kc.burleinann.xml
[0429a] Nancy Burnard Collection of 19th and 20th Century Authors, 1800-1999, MSS-300
Location: The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections, The University of Toledo, 2801 W. Bancroft, Toledo, OH 43606-3390
Description: The materials consist of a variety of newspaper clippings, photographs, booklets, catalogs of the author's work, and miscellaneous pieces pertaining to selected authors. Folders on Hilaire Belloc, Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley, Taylor Caldwell, G.K. Chesterton, John Dos Passos, C.H. Douglas, Rudyard Kipling, Wyndham Lewis, Marshall McLuhan, H.L. Mencken, Ezra Pound (Correspondence, Misc. Listings, Clippings, Photographs, Exhibition and Dealer's Catalog), Margaret Sanger, George Samuel Schuyler, and W.B. Yeats.
Finding aid:
https://www.utoledo.edu/library/canaday/HTML_findingaids/MSS-300.html
[0430] James Burnham Papers, 1928-1983, Coll. 88022
Location: Hoover Institution Archives, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010
Description: James Burnham (1905-1987) was an American philosopher and political theorist. A former Marxist, Burnham became a contributor to the National Review. Correspondence, speeches and writings, notes, memoranda, and printed matter, relating to communism in the United States and abroad, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other anti-Communist movements in the United States and abroad, political conditions in the United States and the world, and conservative political thought. Correspondents and subjects include anti-Communism, Karl Baarslag, William F. Buckley, Jr., Communism, Eugene Davidson, Kenneth De Courcy, John Dos Passos, Lev E. Dobriansky, Slobodan Draskovich, Max Eastman, Christopher Emmet, Milton Friedman, Devin Garrity, Barry Goldwater, Joseph Grew, Will Herberg, Sidney Hook, Herbert Hoover, Stanley K. Hornbeck, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Owen Lattimore, Marvin Liebman, Eugene Lyons, Clarence Manion, Ben Moreell, Karl E. Mundt, Lyle Munson, National Review, Jean Parvulesco, Vladimir Petrov, Herbert Philbrick, Ezra Pound, Henry Regnery, Edward V. Rickenbacker, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Porter Sargent, Boris Souvarine, Ralph de Toledano, Freda Utley, Nathaniel Weyl, and Garry Wills.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/123458496
http://www.worldcat.org/title/james-burnham-papers-1928-1983/oclc/123458496
Finding aids:
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/reg_253.pdf
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0p3000sz/
http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/sz/tf0p3000sz/files/tf0p3000sz.pdf
[0430a] Ben Burns Papers, 1939-1999, Coll. 1981/01
Location: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research collection of Afro-American History and Literature, 9525 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60628
Description: Ben Burns (1913-2000) was "a white editor in black journalism," whose work included editorial positions for Negro Digest, Ebony, Jet, and the Chicago Daily Defender, among other publications. Series I: Correspondence. Subseries C. Sepia Business Correspondence, 1955-1977, contains files on George Schuyler's CV and Press reports re: Governor George Wallace as "America's most dangerous racist." Series III: Subject Research Files, 1939-1999. Subseries B: Interracial Marriage and Multiracial Identity, contains files on interracial adoption, interracial marriage, mixed marriage, and "Sinner Sanctum" by George Schuyler. Subseries C: Dawson/Dickerson Materials, 1938-1970, contains clippings on Klan and an article by Walter Winchell. Subseries E. Various Topics, contains files on Anti-Semitism (including newspaper articles and editorials on Louis Farrakhan and anti-Semitism in Chicago); Bigotry (articles including: "Hate Story: Farrakhan's still at it," (New Republic, May, 30, 1988); "Academic Freedom and Racial Theories," by Leonard Kriegel (New York Times, May 3, 1990); "Sweden's Nasty, Sexist, Racist Genius," by Eric Bentley (New York Times Book Review, Sept. 1, 1985, on August Strindberg) [online at http://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/01/books/sweden-s-nasty-sexist-racist-genius.html
?pagewanted=all]; articles on David Duke); "Face the Failure of Racial Preferences," by Ward Connerly and Newt Gingrich (New York Times, June 15, 1997) [online at http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/15/opinion/face-the-failure-of-racial-preferences.html?pagewanted=all]; Black Politics (including conservative blacks); Communists - People (including an article about Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism, by Richard Gid Powers); Hatred; History (including review of book on the Know Nothings); Integration (including an article on Jesse Helms hires James Meredith as a domestic policy adviser); Intermarriage; Prejudice; Race (including interview with Colin Powell; "Integration Turns 40: The New Segregation" by Juan Williams (Modern Maturity (April/May 1994)); Racism; Louis Farrakhan; Segregation; White Supremacy; and Word Origins (Various clippings re: language (including several of William Safire's column, "On Language")). Series IV. Photographs, 1948-1960s, contains photographs of Ku Klux Klan (Charles Holland; Confrontation between Dr. Robert S. Pritchard and Klansman Charles Holland, Dimmie Johnson).