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

Description: Anna Chennault (1923- ) is an author, lecturer, business consultant, and citizen-diplomat. Series IV, Correspondence, 1940-1998, n.d. (#36.13-45.4, 80.3-85.15), contains correspondence with Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Strom Thurmond. Series V, Alphabetical Files, 1941-2001, n.d. (45.5-79.13, 79.15), contains files on Barry Goldwater, Orrin Hatch, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party: National Republican Heritage Groups, Strom Thurmond, Voice of America, and World Anti-Communist League.

Websites with information:

http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_republican

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

Finding aids:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch01118

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=sch01118

[0533] Arthur Kenneth Chesterton Papers, ca 1880-2012, GB 1128

Location: University of Bath Library, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

Description: A.K. Chesterton (1899-1973) was a British politician, journalist, and solider. By 1933, fully committed to extreme right-wing politics, Chesterton joined the British Union of Fascists quickly becoming one of its leading spokesman and editor of Blackshirt. Critical of the methods employed to attain its ideals, and of what he saw as weak leadership, Chesterton resigned from the Union in 1938. On the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for active service and was sent to northern Kenya. In 1954 Chesterton established the League of Empire Loyalists, a political pressure group whose direct action stunts and 'interventions' received widespread publicity and attracted the attention of a new generation of fascists, nationalists and right-wing extremists. In 1967 when the League merged with the British National Party, the Greater Britain Movement, and the Radical Preservation Society to form the National Front, Chesterton was invited to become its first chairman. The collection contains material relating to various aspects of Chesterton's later life including interviews with colleagues and his widow, examples of his literary, journalistic and political writings, and copies of his view-sheet, Candour. Correspondents include the British Union of Fascists, Britons Publishing Company, Rosine De Bounevaille, Aidan Mackey, Oswald Mosley, The National Front, Douglas Reid, and Thomas Serpico (Omni Publications). Includes publications of the League of Empire Loyalists.

Reference:

Paul Stocker, "'Dark and Sinister Powers': Conspiracy Theory and the Interwar British Extreme Right," CFAPS Newsletter (Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies, Teesside University), Volume 2 (Summer 2015), pp. 6-7, https://www.tees.ac.uk/docs/DocRepo/Research/­CFAPS%20Newsletter%20­2015.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/archives/chesterton.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20131003052431/http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/about/collections/archives/c

hesterton.html

https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/ead-display/-/ead/pl/aicode/GB-1128/type/fa/id/gb1128chesterton

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/accessions/2009/09digests/politics.htm

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton.txt

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1128-chesterton.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/services/archives/chesterton-complete-catalogue.pdf

[0533a] G.K. Chesterton Autobiography [1936], GKC

Location: University of Notre Dame Archives, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

Description: Bound typewritten manuscript of Chesterton's autobiography, with autograph corrections.

Finding aid:

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/gkc.xml

[0533b] G. K. Chesterton Collection, 1889-1944 (bulk 1905-1936)

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

Description: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author and artist who edited the New Witness and later founded G.K.'s Weekly. The contents include sketches (by Chesterton and others), sketchbooks, typescripts and manuscripts of Orthodoxy and other essays, poetry, non-fiction, novels, short stories, plays, book reviews, and autobiographical works. The collection also has correspondence, both personal and professional, exchanged between Chesterton and a variety of correspondents, including Hilaire Belloc. Other documents include programs of lectures given by Chesterton, sheet music with words by Chesterton, an exercise book, and a G.K.'s Weekly stock certificate.

Reference:

"G. K. Chesterton: the Catholic Apologist," John J. Burns Library's Blog, July 18, 2016, https://johnjburns­library.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/g-k-chesterton-the-catholic-apologist/.

Websites with information:

http://bc-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/bclib:lib_BURNS:ALMA-BC21360409690001021

[0533c] G. K. Chesterton Collection, 1893-1977, MSE/MD 3718

Location: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Description: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an artist, poet, dramatist, novelist, philosopher, biographer, literary and art critic, Christian apologist, and journalist. The collection includes letters, manuscripts, published articles by Chesterton, published articles about him, photographs, drawings and sketches by Chesterton, and such miscellaneous items as a recording of some of Chesterton's verse.

Websites with information:

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/GK-Chesterton/GKC-Resources

https://rbsc.library.nd.edu/

Finding aid:

https://rbsc.library.nd.edu/finding_aids/und:ks65h990t9n

[0533d] G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton Collection, 1906-1944, undated, Manuscript Collection MS-0769

Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

Description: The collection of British writer G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) includes manuscripts for several works, including his best-known novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), a few letters written by Chesterton, and a few letters written by others about Chesterton.

Websites with information:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

Finding aids:

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/00724.pdf

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00724/hrc-00724.html

http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00724

[0533e] The G.K. Chesterton Family Correspondence Collection

Location: The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, 351 E. Lincoln Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187

Description: Correspondents include Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, T.S. Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats.

Websites with information:

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Collections-and-Services/Collection-Listings/Letters

Finding aid:

http://www.wheaton.edu/~/media/Files/Centers-and-Institutes/Wade-Center/RR-Docs/Letter-Collections/C-GKC_Family_Correspondence.pdf

[0533f] G. K. Chesterton Library

Location: Oxford Oratory, 25 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HA, UK

Description: Contains books and papers connected with Distributism and the history of the Distributist League, with related material on alternative economics and Catholic and Anglican social thinking. Includes the Distributist League papers.

Websites with information:

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/GK-Chesterton/GKC-Resources

http://www.secondspring.co.uk/spring/chestertonlibrary.htm

http://chestertonlibrary.blogspot.com/

[0533g] G.K. Chesterton Manuscripts, 1882-1931

Location: The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, 351 E. Lincoln Ave., Wheaton, IL 60187

Description: 134 manuscripts, some reproductions and some fragmented, including poems, a play, short stories, essays, articles, a novel, letters to the editor, artwork, Christmas cards, and notes.

Websites with information:

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Collections-and-Services/Collection-Listings/Manuscripts

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/902730457

http://www.worldcat.org/title/gk-chesterton-manuscripts-1882-1931/oclc/902730457

Finding aid:

http://www.wheaton.edu/~/media/Files/Centers-and-Institutes/Wade-Center/RR-Docs/Manuscript-Listings/ChestertonMS.pdf

[0533h] G.K. Chesterton Papers, undated, Collection Number: 11029-z

Location: Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 208 Raleigh Street CB #3916 Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890

Description: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English essayist, literary and social critic, novelist, and poet. The collection includes 26 loose drawings, two small sketchbooks, an illustrated poem, and a separate single page of verse, all in Chesterton's hand.

Websites with information:

http://library.unc.edu/wilson/shc/findingaids/browse-finding-aids/

Finding aid:

http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/11029/

[0533i] G. K. Chesterton Papers, 1877-1988, GB 58 Add MS 73186-73484

Location: Western Manuscripts collection, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, United Kingdom

Description: Correspondents include Hilaire Belloc, Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Christopher Hollis, A. Raven Thomson, and Luigi Villari. Also contains an album of press cuttings of articles by Arthur Kenneth Chesterton, of the League of Empire Loyalists, cousin of G. K. Chesterton, 1921-1924.

Websites with information:

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/GK-Chesterton/GKC-Resources

Finding aids:

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms73186-73484

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms73186-73484.txt

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms73186-73484.pdf

http://staging.archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb58-addms73186-73484

[0534] G.K. Chesterton Papers, 1888-1978 [microfiche]

Location: Archival and Manuscript Collections, John M. Kelly Library, St Michael's College in the University of Toronto, 113 St Joseph St, Toronto, ON, Canada

Description: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, journalist, social critic, and Christian philosopher. The collection contains material by and about G. K. Chesterton, including archival material in microform. Originals in the British Library. Series D. Correspondence, contains correspondence with Hilaire Belloc, T. S. Eliot, and Luigi Villari.

Websites with information:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=195

http://www.wheaton.edu/wadecenter/Authors/GK-Chesterton/GKC-Resources

http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/collections/working-manuscript-pages/gk-chesterton-microfilm-collection.a

sp

Finding aid:

http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/collections/working-manuscript-pages/pdf/GK_Chesterton_­Papers_Inventory_Microfiche.pdf

[0534a] G. K. Chesterton Scrapbook, 1893-1936

Location: Special Collections Department / Rare Books & Manuscripts, 123 Hofstra University, 032 Axinn Library, Hempstead, New York 11549-1230

Description: G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English author and illustrator. The collection consists of one scrapbook with 48 illustrations (33 in pencil, 15 in pen-and-ink) done by Chesterton for The Club of Queer Trades. Also included in the scrapbook are prints of sketches of Chesterton, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, newsletters and ephemera.

Websites with information:

https://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/library/libspc_rbam_collections.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/Library/libspc_rbam_GK_Chesterton_Finding_Aid.pdf

[0535] Chicago City-Wide Collection 1835-1990 (bulk 1871-1950), Archives_CCW

Location: Special Collections and Preservation Division, Neighborhood History Research Collection, Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605

Description: The Chicago City-Wide Collection consists of manuscript, printed and photographic materials. The focus of this collection is general Chicago history, covering the city as a whole and the communities for which there is no separate neighborhood history collection. The series Biographical Data contains files on Joseph Dilys. Anti-Communist and Anti-Semitic literature, 1947-1970, and Robert Rutherford McCormick, "An Address," 1931 (autographed).

Websites with information:

https://www.chipublib.org/archival_post/

http://www.chipublib.org/archival_post/

http://www.chipublib.org/archival_post/chicago-city-wide-collection/

Finding aids:

http://www.chipublib.org/fa-chicago-city-wide-collection-2/

https://web.archive.org/web/20131005055759/http://www.chipublib.org/cplbooksmovies/cplarchive/archivalcoll/ccw.php

[0536] Chicago Defender Archives Individuals Files, 1928-2007 (bulk 1940s–1990s)

Location: Chicago Defender, 200 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60604

Description: The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 for primarily African-American readers. The Individual Files are arranged alphabetically by last name. They are also searchable by occupation. The files are made up primarily of photographs, with small amounts of other material including press releases, clippings, and correspondence. The collection also includes approximately 200 photographs related to the murder of Emmett Till. Files on Theodore Bilbo, Everett Dirksen, David Duke, James Eastland, William F. Knowland, Joseph R. McCarthy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Barry Goldwater, Chiang-Kai Shek, Ronald Reagan, Robert (Bobby) Shelton, and Wendell Willkie.

Websites with information:

http://bmrcsurvey.uchicago.edu/collections/2512-1

http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids.php

Finding aids:

http://uncap.lib.uchicago.edu/view.php?eadid=MTS.defender-individuals

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=MTS.defender-individuals

http://mts.lib.uchicago.edu/collections/findingaids/index.php?eadid=MTS.defender-individuals

[0537] Chicago Federation of Labor records, 1890-1983

Location: Research Center, Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614-6038

Description: The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL), an umbrella organization for unions in the Chicago area, was founded in 1896 as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). John Fitzpatrick (1872-1946) served as CFL president in 1900-1901, 1906-1946, and William Lee served as president in 1946-1984. Series 3. CFL records part 1: John Fitzpatrick office files, etc. 1890-1947 (box 1-38 & 3 scrapbooks). Subseries 1. Fitzpatrick chronological files, etc. (box 1-25), contains correspondence with Herbert Clark Hoover and William Allen White. Series 3. CFL records part 1: John Fitzpatrick office files, etc. 1890-1947 (box 1-38 & 3 scrapbooks). Subseries 2. Fitzpatrick topical files, etc. (box 26-38 & 3 scrapbooks), contains a file on the American Vigilant Intelligence Federation. Series 4. CFL records, part 2: William Lee office files, etc. (box 39-50), contains files on Right to Work, Illinois, 1967-1969, and Taft-Hartley.

Finding aid:

http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-C/CFL-inv.htm

[0537a] Chicago Historical Society Collection on the New York Council to Abolish HUAC, 1946-1970, TAM.431

Location: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Description: The New York Council to Abolish HUAC circulated literature and staged rallies and protests to try to abolish the United States Congress's House Committee on Un-American Activities. The collection includes press releases, newsletters, flyers and memoranda. The collection also contains flyers, leaflets and outreach collected from the National Lawyers Guild and other organizations on the left interested in law reform.

Finding aids:

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_431/

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_431/tam_431.html

[0537b] Chicago Police Department, Red Squad selected records, c. 1930s-86 (bulk 1963-74)

Location: Chicago History Museum, 1601 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614

Description: The collection concerns surveillance of suspected "subversive" groups by the Chicago Police Department (CPD), ca. mid-1950s-74. Card indexes; files containing reports and correspondence about persons and organizations investigated as possible political subversives, scattered photographs, and some materials created by the persons or organizations under investigation, such as newsletters, brochures, and correspondence; plus some administrative records of the Chicago Police Department's Security Operations Section.

Reference:

Julie Thomas, "Unlikely Sources for Government Information. The Chicago Historical Society, A Case Study," DttP: Documents to the People vol. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2005), pp 27-29 (p. 27), http://wikis.ala.org/­godort/images/5/5d/Dttp_v33n4.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources

http://chicagohistory.org/research/resources/archives-and-manuscripts/red-squad

http://libguides.chicagohistory.org/redsquad

http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/M-C/Introduction.htm

[0537c] Roy A. Childs papers, 1933-1994, Coll. 93053

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

Description: Roy A. Childs (1949-1992) was a libertarian thinker, an editor of the Libertarian Review, and a scholar at the Cato Institute. Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, studies, memoranda, bulletins, serial issues, pamphlets, clippings, and sound recordings relating to libertarian thought and activities in the United States, laissez-faire economics, and proposals for decriminalization of drug use. Series 1. Correspondence File, 1967-1992, contains files on Peter Bauer, Robert Bauman, Daniel Bell, Nathaniel Branden, David Brooks, Patrick Buchanan, Jameson Campaigne, Jr., Ed Clark, Midge Decter, Milton Friedman, F. A. Harper, Friedrich A. Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Karl Hess, James Jackson Kilpatrick, Irving Kristol, Robert LeFevre and Rampart College, Roger Lea MacBride, Felix Morley, Robert Nisbet, Robert Nozick, Ron Paul, Howard Phillips, Norman Podhoretz, Justin Raimondo, Leonard E. Read, Reason, and Murray N. Rothbard. Series 3. Speeches and Writings, 1933-1994. [Subseries] Research Notes, 1933-1992, contains files on Cato Institute, Cold War, conservatives, defense, drug legalization, foreign policy, Holocaust, Institute for Humane Studies, Laissez-Faire-Books, Rose Wilder Lane, LeFevre, Libertarian Party, Libertarian Review, Libertarians, Neoconservatives, Robert Nozick, Objectivism, Ayn Rand, Murray N. Rothbard, George Will, and Young Americans for Freedom. [Subseries] Writings by Others, 1945-1992, contains files on Frédéric Bastiat, Nathaniel Branden, Cato Institute, Lawrence V. Cott, Justus D. Doenecke, John T. Flynn, Milton Friedman, F. A. Harper, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Jr. Karl Hess, Russell Kirk, Charles Koch, Irving Kristol, Rose Wilder Lane, Robert LeFevre, The Libertarian Newsletter, H. L. Mencken, Charles Murray, Robert A. Nisbet, Albert Jay Nock, Robert Nozick, Norman Podhoretz, Justin Raimondo, Ayn Rand, Leonard E. Read, Murray N. Rothbard, Hans F. Sennholz, Joseph Sobran, and Ernest Van Den Haag.

Reference:

Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (New York: Viking, 2017).

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7g5005dj/entire_text/

[0538] Art Chimes Collection, 1927-1987 [audio recordings]

Location: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Russell Special Collections Building, University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602

Description: Art Chimes is a journalist at the Voice of America. The collection consists primarily of ¼" open reel recordings containing over 3100 radio programs taped off-air. Programs include the following: Hitler Addresses Danzig Meeting, Broadcast with translation by NBC 9/19/39; Lee Harvey Oswald Right-wing propaganda 8/21/63; Let Freedom Ring Right-wing telephone message, Atlanta. 12/13/73; Let Freedom Ring, Right-wing telephone message, Atlanta. 4/6/74; and Studio One: Americans All (on H. L. Mencken), VOA 10/14/84.

Websites with information:

http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/audioradio/chimes.html

Finding aids:

http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/audioradio/findingaids/chimes_findingaid.pdf

http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/homemovies/findingaids/chimes_web.pdf

[0538a] Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion

Location: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street), New York, NY 10024 [online exhibition]

Description: Throughout the 1870s, anti-Chinese sentiment began to infiltrate American political discourse. Led primarily by legislators in California, Congress began to seek laws to restrict Chinese immigration, resulting in passage of the most restrictive immigration law ever adopted by Congress: the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed by the Magnuson Act on December 17, 1943, and in 2012 Congress issued a formal apology to Chinese-American people, expressing regret for the discriminatory law. The online exhibition treats, in part, the Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred most Chinese from entering the United States, and the Chinese American activists who used the American justice system to try to overturn the Exclusion Act. The exhibition includes George Frederick Keller's cartoon "What shall we do with our boys?" (The Wasp, March 3, 1882), which illustrates the stereotype of unemployed white workers forced to turn to loitering and crime because Chinese immigrants took their jobs. Also included is a newspaper advertisement, sponsored by Friends of China and Advocates of Justice ("Write Your Congressman," Chinese Press, September 10, 1943), urging Americans to write their congressman and demand the repeal of Chinese Exclusion.

Websites with information:

http://blog.nyhistory.org/george-frederick-seward-and-the-chinese-exclusion-act/

https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/chineseamerican

http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/

http://chineseamerican.nyhistory.org/exhibition-highlights/what-shall-we-do-with-our-boys/

[0539] The Chinese in California Virtual Archive, 1850-1925 [digital collection]

Location: The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, California 94720-6000; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-6000; California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library, San Francisco, California 94105-4014

Description: The Chinese in California, 1850-1925, illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. From their arrival during the Gold Rush, the Chinese experienced discrimination and often overt racism, and finally exclusion. Legislation was used against Chinese immigrants beginning with the 1850 Foreign Miners' License Tax law. During the economic downturn in the 1870s, racist labor union leaders directed their actions and the anger of unemployed workers at the Chinese, blaming them for depressed wages and lack of jobs, and accusing them of being morally corrupt. The theme Anti-Chinese Movement and Chinese Exclusion, contains such items as William Tell Coleman statements: and other material 1870-1893, concerning his Committee of Public Safety (1877), which worked to quash anti-Chinese riots promoted by Dennis Kearney, leader of the Workingmen's Party of California, and his followers; and copies of For the re-enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Law (San Francisco: Star Press, c [1901]); Eugene Casserly, The Chinese evil—Contracts for Servile Labor—Chinese Immigration the Great Danger ([Washington, 1870]); The Labor agitators, or, The battle for bread (San Francisco: Geo. W. Greene, [Workingman's Party, 1879?]); and Charles N. Felton, The evils of Mongolian immigration: the Chinese question ([Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1892]).