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

References:

Michael Petersen, "The Intelligence That Wasn't: CIA Name Files, the U.S. Army, and Intelligence Gathering in Occupied Japan," in Researching Japanese War Crimes Records: Introductory Essays (Washington, D.C., Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records: Interagency Working Group, 2006), p. 208; Japanese War Crimes and Related Topics: A Guide to Records at the National Archives, compiled by Greg Bradsher (Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 2006), p. 583, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/­Japan/Japanese-War-Crimes-Guide.pdf and http://www.archives.gov/i

wg/japanese-war-crimes/japanese-war-crimes-guide.zip and http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/jcrimes-g

uide.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/

http://research.archives.gov/description/640446

Finding aids:

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/second-release-name-files.pdf

http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/second-release-name-files.html

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB150/cia_namesfiles_nara.pdf

http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive

[0445] COSAWR Collection, 1970-1990, BC1005

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Chancellor Oppenheimer Library, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town, Lovers Walk St, Cape Town, South Africa

Description: The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was established to assist war resisters who left South Africa to avoid conscription within the country, and to give support to those who were resisting conscription within the country. Press cuttings and other material related to SA Military, religious and conscientious objectors, international support, End Conscription Campaign, war psychosis, video and audio tapes, other resources. Under the category of South Africa Military and General Files, special attention is given to the role of right wing organisations.

Reference:

Guide to the Manuscripts in the University of Cape Town Libraries. Consolidated Version (UCT Libraries, June 2013), p. 192, http://www.specialcollections.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/25/resources/Guide%20to%20Manuscripts%20in%20UCT%20Libraries%20Consolidated%20June%202013.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://uctscholar.uct.ac.za/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=108803&local_base=GEN01

[0445a] CSU Japanese American Digitization Project [digital collection]

Location: Archives and Special Collections Department, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747

Description: This collection, generated by a consortium of CSU Archives, features documents, oral histories, photographs, and other materials relating to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Contains copies of California and the Japanese: A Compilation of Arguments Advertised in Newspapers by the American Committee of Justice in Opposition to the Alien Land Law, Together With the Memorial Addressed by the Said Committee (Oakland, Cal.: The American Committee of Justice, 1920); Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, September 24 to October 6, 1945 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1945), describing the activities of anti-Japanese groups, including the California Preservation Association and the Japanese Exclusion League; Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, October 8 to November 2, 1945 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1945), describing the activities of anti-Japanese groups; and Digest of the West Coast Newspaper Items, December 6, 1945 to January 15, 1946 (United States. War Relocation Authority, 1946), describing a letter to the editor opposing dual citizenship by H.J. McClatchy.

Websites with information:

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/

http://csujad.com/csudhcollection.html

Finding aids:

http://digitalcollections.archives.csudh.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16855coll4

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16855coll4

http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p16855coll4

[0445b] Dozier Cade Papers, 1941-1955, MS.1378

Location: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library, 121 John C. Hodges Library, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000

Description: Dozier Copeland Cade (1917-2014) was director of the School of Journalism at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1972 to 1978. This collection houses clippings, publications, class materials, and other items documenting Dozier Cade's research into McCarthyism and work as an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University from 1941 to 1955. Also included are a variety of materials that Cade accumulated while writing his doctoral dissertation, "A critical analysis of the role of American daily newspapers in the current encroachment by government and society on freedom of expression in the United States" (1954). Files include Material on Federal Anti-Lynch Legislation, undated; Article on Colonel Robert R. McCormick, undated; Materials Regarding McCarthy's Probe of Communists in Government, undated; Materials Regarding the Impact of McCarthyism on the Individual, the Nation, and the Press, undated; Clippings on Historical Background of Red Probe, undated; Clippings on McCarthy's Background and McCarthyism, undated; and Materials on Communist Ideology and Propaganda Techniques and National Security Matters Relating to Communism, undated.

Finding aid:

http://dlc.lib.utk.edu/spc/view?docId=ead/0012_001788_000000_0000/0012_001788_000000_0000.xml;quer

y=;brand=default

[0445c] Patrick Cahill Collection of Belloc and Chesterton Materials, 1909-1973, undated (bulk 1951-1958), MS1986-138

Location: Archives and Manuscripts, John J. Burns Library, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3801

Description: Papers pertain to writer Patrick Cahill's research and publication on Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton. It contains manuscripts and typescripts of Cahill's essays on Belloc and Chesterton; Cahill's research notes; correspondence by Belloc; Distributist League Reports from 1927-1936; a sound recording of Hilaire Belloc; and a photocopy of Hilaire Belloc's will.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/33953086

http://www.worldcat.org/title/patrick-cahill-collection-of-belloc-and-chesterton-materials-1909-1973-unda

ted/oclc/33953086

Finding aids:

http://library.bc.edu/finding-aids/MS1986-128-finding-aid.pdf

http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1110

[0446] Mary Steichen Calderone Papers, 1904-1971, 179; M-125

Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: Mary Steichen Calderone (1904-1998) was a crusader and pioneer in the field of sex education. Correspondence, speeches, printed material, etc. Series VI. Clippings and Articles on Sex Education Controversy in the United States, 1968-1969, contains clippings and articles, February-June 1969, on the right-wing "hate" campaign waged against Calderone as the focal point of the sex education movement.

Websites with information:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

Finding aid:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00177

[0446a] Calgary McCall Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta fonds, 1980-1986

Location: Library & Archives, Glenbow Museum, 130 9th Ave S.E., Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P3, Canada

Description: The Calgary McCall Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a political constituency association. Its objects are to promote the interests and principles of the Progressive Conservative Party, and to nominate and support Conservative candidates in provincial and federal elections. The fonds consists of constitution, minutes, correspondence, circulars and lists of executives.

Websites with information:

http://www.albertaonrecord.ca/calgary-mccall-progressive-conservative-association-of-alberta-fonds

http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?TN=MAINCAT&AC=QBE_QUERY&RF=WebResults&

DL=0&RL=0&%0AMF=WPEngMsg.ini&MR=5&QF0=Main%20entry+%7C+Title&QI0=Progressive+Conservative

+Association+of+Alberta+fonds

[0446b] John Caldwell Calhoun Papers, 1784-1980 (bulk 1802-1850), Mss 200,

Location: Special Collections Library, Strom Thurmond Institute Building, Clemson University, 230 Kappa Street, Clemson, SC 29634-3001

Description: John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was a United States Senator from South Carolina, 16th United States Secretary of State, 7th Vice President of the United States, 10th United States Secretary of War, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 6th District. Calhoun was a proponent of nullification and state rights. He strongly expressed his views on that issue when in 1828 he drafted the South Carolina Exposition for the South Carolina State Legislature. The papers consist of agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, maps, microfilm, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book, an autograph draft and a photocopy of the "South Carolina Exposition" and other material.

Websites with information:

http://library.clemson.edu/depts/specialcollections/finding-aids/

Finding aid:

http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/Mss/Mss0200r.pdf

[0447] California and West Coast labor and industrial relations, selected publications, 1933-1993 (bulk 1945-1980), IRLE-LB01 [digital collection]

Location: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-5555

Description: The collection includes original documents, pamphlets, company publications, union reports, student papers and theses. Among the publications are Alert Against Communism in California. Confidential to Subscribers, No. 43, September 20, 1948. Jacoby and Gibbons and Associates, Anti-Subversive Public Relations Specialists; Union Monopoly: Its Cause and Cure, by V. Orval Watts. Studies of the Foundation for Social Research, Vol. III, No. 1, Spring 1954; What to Do About Communism in Unions, No. 2 in the Series. Statement Before a Senate Subcommittee by L.R. Boulware, G.H. Pfeif, and W.J. Barron. Employee and Plant Community Relations, General Electric; Union Monopoly Power: Challenge to Freedom, by Cola G. Parker. National Association of Manufacturers; The Political Responsibility of Businessmen: Its Neglect, The Consequences Thereof, and What Can Be Done About It, by Raymond Moley. New and Revised 1958; Senator Barry Goldwater Speaks Out Against Unrestrained Union Monopoly Power; Personal Freedom and Labor Policy, by Sylvester Petro. Institute of Economic Affairs, New York University; The National Right to Work Committee: the Principle, the Program, the People. National Right to Work Committee, 1959; Facts About The National Right to Work Committee. Section 4 - Special No. 12. Group Research, Inc., December 13, 1962; and National Right to Work Newsletter, Vol. 30, No. 9. National Right to Work Committee, September 30, 1984.

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/berkeley/cabeurle/lb01.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2779q6pf/entire_text/

Digital files for Facts About The National Right to Work Committee (Washington, D.C., Group Research, Inc., 1962):

Description: The National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC), founded in 1955, advocates anti-union legislation. Group Research, Inc., monitored right-wing publications, movements, and broadcasters. This report mentions America's Future, Inc., American Farm Bureau Federation, American Enterprise Association, American Taxpayers' League, Americans for Constitutional Action, Tom Anderson, anti-black, anti-Communism, anti-income tax, anti-Roosevelt, anti-Semitic, Arkansas Free Enterprise Association, L. Nelson Bell, George S. Benson, Ezra Taft Benson, Blue Book (John Birch Society) [online at https://ia800307.us.archive.org/13/items/TheBlueBook/MicrosoftWord-Document1.pdf], Lemuel R. Boulware, Owen Brewster, William Buckley, S. D. "Duke" Cadwallader, Wofford B. Camp, F. Gano Chance, Christian Crusade, Christian Freedom Foundation, Christian Economics, Christian American Association, Inc., Christianity Today, Committee for Constitutional Government, Committee for Equal Anti-Trust Protection, Communism, "Communism on the Map" (filmstrip), "Communist Encirclement" (filmstrip), Conservative Society of America, Rev. John E. Coogan, S.J., Council for Individual Freedom, Kent Courtney, Phoebe Courtney, DeMille Foundation for Political Freedom (DeMille Political Freedoms Foundation), Cecil B. DeMille, Edwin S. Dillard, James L. Doenges, the du Ponts, Robert A. Englander, Farm and Ranch (Tom Anderson), Rev. James W. Fifield, Jr., For America, Foundation for Economic Education, Maurice Franks, P. M. French, Senator Goldwater, Percy L. Greaves, William J. Grede, Glenn A. Green, Alfred P. Haake, Harding College, Rev. Billy James Hargis, William Taylor Harrison, Merwin K. Hart, Fred A. Hartley, Albert W. Hawkes, Heritage Foundation, Human Events, Sherwood Ide, Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, John Birch Society, James T. Karam, Howard Kershner, John Henry Kirby, Walter Knott, Knott's Berry Farm, William F. Knowland, Senator William F. Knowland, Fred Koch, Labor Digest, Labor Policy Association, Reed Larson, Liberty League, Marvin Liebman, Manion Forum, Karl Mundt, Vance Muse, National Committee for Political Realignment, National Committee for Union Shop Abolition, National Council for Labor's Rank and File, National Committee for Economic Freedom (income-tax repeal group), National Association of Manufacturers, National Labor-Management Foundation, National Right to Work Federation, National Council of State Legislators, New Guard (Young Americans for Freedom), Edward O'Neal, Organization for the Repeal of Federal Income Taxes, Cola G. Parker, George Peck, Sylvester Petro, Pro America, John J. Raskob, Ronald Reagan, Henry Regnery, Donald R. Richberg, right-to-work, E. Merrill Root, Allen W. Rucker, Dr. Fred Schwarz, Alfred P. Sloan, Gerald L. K. Smith, Southern States Industrial Council, Southern Tariff Association, Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution, strike-breaking, Taft-Hartley Act, The Independent American, Nathan Thorington, Tool Owners Union, Senator John Tower, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Veterans Industrial Association, We The People!, and Young Americans for Freedom.

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0003z7b8t

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0003z7b8t/FID1

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/28722/8t/bk0003z7b8t/files/bk0003z7b8t-FID1.pdf

http://www.prwatch.org/files/rtw_group_research.pdf

[0447a] California and Western Manuscript Collection, ca. 1760-1973, M0119

Location: Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Green Library, Stanford University, 557 Escondido Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Description: Small collections and miscellaneous single items pertaining to various periods, persons, and phases of California history (1760-1963). Includes letters, journals, diaries, reports, financial and legal documents, pictures, and maps. A copy of American Citizen, San Rafael, May 15, 1936 [a right-wing newspaper]; a letter, typed papers, and a pamphlet by Franklin Hichborn; letters by Hiram W. Johnson; and Personal Recollections of Thomas H. Benton by Edward Dobyns (1882).

Finding aids:

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/c4/tf7w1006c4/files/tf7w1006c4.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7w1006c4/entire_text/

[0448] California Biography Collection, 1827-2001, BIO COLL [ephemera collection]

Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-4014

Description: The collection consists of ephemeral items relating to people widely known and relatively unknown in California. Files on Luther Burbank, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Randolph Hearst, Herbert Hoover, Senator William Knowland, General Douglas MacArthur, John Francis Neylan, Richard Milhous Nixon, Dr. Paul Popenoe, and Ronald Reagan.

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/chs/bio_coll.pdf

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/xk/kt8199s2xk/files/kt8199s2xk.pdf

[0449] California Ephemera Collection, 1841-2001 (bulk 1880-1980), CA EPH [ephemera collection]

Location: California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105-4014

Description: The collection consists of a wide range of ephemera pertaining to the state of California and each of its constituent counties, excluding the City and County of San Francisco. Types of ephemera include: advertisements; brochures; folders; programs; leaflets; pamphlets; announcements; guides; maps; tickets; invitations; newsletters; constitutions and bylaws; surveys and reports; directories and listings; fliers; badges and ribbons; ballots; dance cards; invitations; catalogues; report cards and syllabi; journals and journal articles; and newspaper clippings. Files on America First Committee of California, Inc., California Crusaders, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Nationalist Crusade, Eugenics Society of Northern California, Greenback Party, Ku Klux Klan, Loyalty oaths, San Francisco Bay Region School of Anti-Communism, and Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, Inc.

Finding aid:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/chs/ca_eph.pdf

[0450] California Ephemera Collection, 1860- , Coll. 200 [partly digital collection; ephemera collection]

Location: Department of Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: Collection consists of broadsides, clippings, brochures, and other ephemeral materials relating to California. Subjects include: abortion, birth control, Luther Burbank, William Randolph Hearst, Japanese in California - Pre World War II, Hiram Johnson, David Starr Jordan, William Fife Knowland, Robert Andrews Millikan, John Francis Neylan, Paul Popenoe, Ronald Reagan, UNESCO - Los Angeles. Los Angeles Public School controversy, and others. Documents relating to Japanese in California - Pre World War II include Assembly bill no. 78: an act to regulate the ownership or possession of land by aliens, January 8, 1909; Campaign Committee of Asiatic Exclusion League of California, August 9, 1910; Men and women! Protect your homes from loathsome Oriental diseases! ca. 1910; Our Japanese question, ca. 1910; White or Jap: which? 1908; Anti-Jap Laundry League report for 1911, January 11, 1912; Will the Japanese predominate? June 1909; Does the savings justify the risk? ca. 1910; Check the Japanese industrial invasion, January 1912; Jap-laundry patrons: attention! ca. 1910; In the interest of peace with Japan patronize white industries only, June 1913; and Can we count on you? 1908.

Finding aid:

http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/ng/tf5f59p0ng/files/tf5f59p0ng.pdf

[0451] The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection [digital collection]

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

Description: The California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection brings together a selection of documents and images from the holdings of four repositories at the University of California: the University Archives, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley; the University Archives, Young Research Library, UCLA; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego; and the Office of the Secretary of the Regents, Oakland. The collection comprises more than 3500 pages of electronic text, more than 30 pictorial images, and 15 audio clips, which document the controversy (1949-1951) that damaged the University during the McCarthy Era. Contains letters from Robert Donner to Helen R. MacGregor, Private Secretary to Governor Earl Warren, September 20, 1950; to John Francis Neylan, June 22, 1950; and to Neylan, October 12, 1950; a letter to the Editor, Life Magazine, from Jack B. Tenney, October 25, 1950; a letter from John Francis Neylan to Sidney Hook, November 28, 1950; statements of John Francis Neylan, ca. 1949, 1949, and February 28, 1950; and a letter from George W. Robnett to John Francis Neylan, April 12, 1950.

Reference:

David Farrell and Kathryn M. Neal, "California Loyalty Oath Digital Collection Debuts … and Wins a James Madison Freedom of Information Award," Bancroftiana 132 (Spring 2008), p. 10, http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/bancroftiana/ucb/text/bancroftiana_132.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/loyaltyoath.html

Finding aid:

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/loyaltyoath/

[0452] California Political Publication and Ephemera Collection, 1936-1989 (bulk 1964-1974), MS-R14

Location: Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, University of California, Irvine, P.O. Box 19557, Irvine, CA 92623-9557

Description: This collection comprises political publications and ephemera distributed in California from 1936 to 1989. Materials document the activities of California and Orange County legislators, politicians, and officials. The majority of the materials relate to Orange County, California. The collection includes newsletters and news releases, campaign pamphlets and newspapers, campaign posters, and several sample ballots as well as distributions from political associations such as Young Americans for Freedom. Contains materials relating to Barry Goldwater, Alf M. Landon, Ronald Reagan, John G. Schmitz, James B. Utt, and Young Americans for Freedom.

Websites with information:

http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=14352&sid=178380

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=u000034

Finding aids:

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/uci/spcoll/r14.pdf

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5580068c/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5580068c/entire_text/

[0453] California Republican Assembly Records, 1936-, Collection 2039

Location: Special Collections, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Description: The California Republican Assembly (CRA), a statewide volunteer organization, was founded in 1934. The CRA furnished Republican candidates with preprimary endorsements as well as financial and volunteer support. The assembly wielded a major influence on modern American politics by serving as a model for other party auxiliaries, such as the California Democratic Council. The collection consists of minutes of board meetings, CRA documents and publications, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, election campaign materials, and photographs. Materials on anti-New Deal/Roosevelt books, pamphlets, etc. ca. 1936-38, Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, William Knowland, Alf Landon, Ronald Reagan, John H. Rousselot, John Schmitz, Robert A. Taft, Wendell L. Willkie, and J. Arthur Younger.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft9b69p1ft/entire_text/

[0453a] California Republican Assembly Records, 1955-1969, MS-R128

Location: Special Collections and Archives, The UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92623-9557

Description: The California Republican Assembly (CRA), founded in 1932, is a grassroots political organization that promotes conservative values, policies, and candidates related to the Republican Party. Over the years CRA has supported several winning candidates in the national political arena and has helped shape politics in California. Materials include bylaws, meeting minutes, convention materials, and reports.