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

Websites with information:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/findingAids.php

Finding aids:

http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0294/

http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0294/ms0294.html

[0605] COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1978) [microfilm]

Description: The FBI Counterintelligence Program file contains details of the bureau's attempts to "expose, disrupt, and neutralize" groups that J. Edgar Hoover perceived as threatening to national security. The file, spanning COINTELPRO's existence from 1956 to 1971, contains Federal Bureau of Investigation memoranda and directives documenting the FBI's investigation of, infiltration of and other activities relative to such groups as the Communist Party of the USA, Black Nationalist Hate Groups, White Hate Groups (Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, the National States Rights Party), the Socialist Workers Party, and Cuban groups supporting Fidel Castro.

Websites with information:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131005055240/http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/woodson-regional/p/HarshMicro//

http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas

[0606] Bainbridge Colby Papers, 1863-1950 (bulk 1912-1950), MSS16360

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

Description: Colby (1869-1950), a lawyer, assisted in organizing the Progressive Party and supported the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. He was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state in 1920-21. The papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, notebooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Although he was an early supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colby eventually became a critic of the New Deal, formed the anti-Roosevelt American Liberty League, and supported the Republican Party candidate Alfred M. Landon in the 1936 presidential election. Scrapbooks include material on these topics. Also contains correspondence with John Spargo.

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.ms011091

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011091.3

[0607] The Cold War and Internal Security Collection

Location: Joyner Library, East Carolina University, East Fifth Street, Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Description: The Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection includes over 1,000 volumes of congressional hearings, committee prints and committee reports from the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), its successor the House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS), the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (SPSI), and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), covering the years 1934-1976. The contents of the collection cover congressional investigations of organizations deemed "subversive" or "un-American", primarily the Communist Party USA and its allies. Other subjects of investigation include the New Left, the Ku Klux Klan (including the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina), the Black Panthers, 1930s and 40s pro-Nazi organizations, the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans, Hiss v. Chambers, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the German-American Bund, and the Silver Legion of America.

References:

"The Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection," Joyner Library's eNews (Mar. 2013), p. 4, http://media.lib.ecu.edu/development/eNewsletter/jl_enews_marchfinal2013.pdf; "Cold War & Internal Security (CWIS) Collection," http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/; William Joseph Thomas, "Lagniappe: Joyner Library's Cold War and Internal Security Collection," North Carolina Libraries, Volume 71, No 1 (Spring/Summer 2013), pp. 48-50, http://www.ncl.ecu.edu/index.php/NCL/article/view/394/482, http://www.ncl.ecu.edu/index.php/NCL/article/viewFile/394/482.

Websites with information:

http://libguides.ecu.edu/cwis

Blog:

http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/

[0607a] Cold War Collection, 1938-

Location: Special Collections & Archives, University Library, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom

Description: More than 500 texts on the culture of the Cold War, including spy fiction, novels describing nuclear war, historical studies of the CIA, espionage and intelligence agencies - European and American, memoirs, political tracts, and military studies of topics like war games. Titles include Inside the Company: CIA diary, by Philip Agee (1975); The iron curtain over America, by John Beaty (1951); The American inquisition, 1945-1960: a profile of the "McCarthy era," by Cedric Belfrage (1989); Spytime: the undoing of James Jesus Angleton: a novel, by William F. Buckley, Jr. (2000); The coming defeat of communism, by James Burnham (1950); The struggle for the world, by James Burnham (1947); Modern arms and free men: a discussion of the role of science in preserving democracy, by Vannevar Bush (1949); McCarthy, by Roy Cohn (1968); Psychic dictatorship in the U.S.A., by Alex Constantine (1995); Virtual government: CIA mind control operations in America, by Alex Constantine (1997); The facts about Nixon: an unauthorized biography, by William Costello (1960); Destroying the village: Eisenhower and thermonuclear war, by Campbell Craig (1998); Early Reagan: the rise of an American hero, by Anne Edwards (1988); The great challenge, by Louis Fischer (1947); The conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater (1960); In the court of public opinion, by Alger Hiss (1957); Recollections of a life, by Alger Hiss (1988); Masters of deceit: the story of communism in America and how to fight it, by J. Edgar Hoover (1959); Brain-washing in Red China: the calculated destruction of men's minds, by Edward Hunter (1951); Brainwashing: the story of men who defied it, by Edward Hunter (1957); The story of Mary Liu, by Edward Hunter (1957); The strange case of Alger Hiss, by the Earl Jowitt (1953); The Matusow affair: memoir of a national scandal, by Albert E. Kahn; introduction by Angus Cameron (1987); Mind control, Oswald & JFK: were we controlled?, by Lincoln Lawrence & Kenn Thomas (1997); The mind of an assassin, by Isaac Don Levine (1959); Joseph R. McCarthy, edited by Allen J. Matusow (1970); False witness, by Harvey Matusow (1955); A version of Major William E. Mayer's (1956 address 'Brain-washing: the ultimate weapon' [spoken record]); McCarthy: a documented record (1954); The real war, by Richard Nixon (1981); The Rosenberg file: a search for the truth, by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton (1983); With enough shovels: Reagan, Bush and nuclear war, by Robert Scheer; with the assistance of Narda Zacchino and Constance Matthiessen (1982); None dare call it treason, by John A. Stormer (1964); Official and confidential: the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover, by Anthony Summers (1993, 2011); Perjury: the Hiss-Chambers case, by Allen Weinstein (1978); The politician, by Robert Welch (1963); Venona: the greatest secret of the Cold War, by Nigel West (2000); and Thirteen who fled, by editor Louis Fischer; subeditor Boris A. Yakovlev; translators Gloria and Victor Fischer (1949).

Websites with information:

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/colldescs/coldwar.htm

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/colldescs/azindex.html

Database:

http://library.liv.ac.uk/search/l?SEARCH=spec+cold%20war

[0608] James William Cole Papers, 1863, 1946-1967, Manuscript Collection #40

Location: Joyner Library, East Carolina University, East Fifth Street, Greenville, NC 27858-4353

Description: James William "Catfish" Cole (1924-1967) was a leader of the North Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Papers consist of correspondence, speeches, news releases, pamphlets, tracts, broadsides, booklets, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous. Numerous bulletins, leaflets, pamphlets, and newsletters pertain to Klan operations. Also included are many broadsides advertising various Klan rallies in North and South Carolina. There is also a certificate of incorporation (1955) from the state of North Carolina for the State's Rights League whose objective was to maintain the purity and culture of the white race and Anglo-Saxon institutions. Photographs of Robert M. Shelton (Imperial Wizard of the KKK) are included. The collection contains numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, most of which deal with race relations, Civil Rights, and Klan activities. Publications include The Constitution and Bylaws of the Klan, The Klovan, The Klan in Action, and The Sins or Evils of Integration.

Websites with information:

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/browse.aspx?by=title&s=C

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/268958859

http://www.worldcat.org/title/james-william-cole-papers-1863-1946-1967/oclc/268958859

Finding aids:

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0040/

http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0040/0040.pdf

[0609] Reverend Walton E. Cole Collection, 1934-1950

Location: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, 800 N. Dartmouth Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711

Description: The Reverend Walton E. Cole Papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and publications on the radio battle fought in the late 1930s between Cole and Father Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest who was among the first to exploit the possibilities of preaching on the air. Coughlin became highly controversial when his broadcasts took a political turn toward Nazism and anti-Semitism. Walton Cole, a Unitarian minister in Toledo, Ohio, tried to prevail upon the Catholic hierarchy to have his inflammatory broadcasts stopped. Files include Coughlin Speech: National Union for Social Justice, 1934; Accounts of the two visits of Walton E. Cole and Father Coughlin, 1939; Interview with Archbishop Mooney; The Christian Front, 1939-1941; Lincoln and Rothschilds, Social Justice Magazine, 1940-1942; and Social Justice Magazine, 1936-1942. Books include An Answer to Father Coughlin's Critics (1940); Government Monetary Control, by Hon. Chas G. Binderup (1938); Eight Lectures on Labor Capital and Justice, by Charles E. Coughlin (Royal Oak, MI: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1934); and Father Coughlin, His "Facts" and Arguments (New York, General Jewish Council, 1939) [online at https://ia800303.us.archive.org/7/items/FatherCoughlinHisFactsAndArguments_201502/Father%20Coughlin%20his%20facts%20and%20arguments.PDF].

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt387030d8/

[0610] Wayne S. Cole Research Collection, 1930-1964

Location: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, P.O. Box 488, 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, IA 52358-0488

Description: Cole was an historian of isolationism and Professor of History, Iowa State University, 1954-1965; University of Maryland, 1965-1992. The research notes pertain to the following subjects among others: America First Committee, Anti-Semitism, Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, Senator William E. Borah, Communists, Father Charles E. Coughlin, Council Against Anti-Semitism, Bronson Cutting, Stephen A. Day, Prescott Dennett, Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Dilling, Fascism, Hamilton Fish, Flanders Hall, John T. Flynn, Merwin K. Hart, Internationalism, Interventionism, Isolationism, Tyler Kent, Senator William Langer, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, McCarthyism, Joe McWilliams, Noninterventionism, Senator Gerald P. Nye, William Dudley Pelley, Amos R. E. Pinchot, Edward Rickenbacker, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Scribner's Commentator, Sedition Trial, Silver Shirts, Gerald L. K. Smith, Edward J. Smythe, Robert A. Taft, Townsend Movement, Walter Trohan, Lyrl Van Hyning, George Sylvester Viereck, Henry A. Wallace, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Wendell Willkie, General Robert E. Wood, and the Yalta Conference.

Websites with information:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptcollections.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/hmother.html

Finding aids:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptfindingaids/cole.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/cole.htm

[0611] Kenneth W. Colegrove Papers, 1917-1954, Coll. 11/3/22/4

Location: Northwestern University Archives, Deering Library, Room 110, 1970 Campus Dr., Evanston, IL 60208-2300

Description: Kenneth Wallace Colegrove (1886-1975) was a professor of political science at Northwestern University, 1919-1952. Colegrove also was active in government and community service. He was a consultant to the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) from 1943 to 1945 and in 1946 was a political consultant on Japanese constitutional revision attached to General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. He served as editor for the Institute of Fiscal and Political Education in New York and was a member of the editorial board of Amerasia, a review of American and Asian affairs. His papers include correspondence, administrative records, research files, published works, and records of legal proceedings before which Colegrove appeared, gave testimony or was mentioned in the testimony of others. Colegrove's pamphlets and reprints include Senator McCarthy, ca. 1950. The series Professional Correspondence and Related Materials, contains correspondence with Amerasia, Dr. Anthony Bouscaren, Senator Owen Brewster, Senator Styles Bridges, Professor Louis F. Budenz, The Honorable James F. Byrnes, The Honorable Martin Dies, Senator Everett M. Dirksen, Educational Reviewer, Brigadier General Bonner F. Fellers, Mr. Hamilton Fish, Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, The Honorable Herbert C. Hoover, General Patrick J. Hurley, Senator William E. Jenner, Dr. Walter H. Judd, Senator William F. Knowland, Mr. Alfred Kohlberg, Mr. David Lawrence, Dr. Felix Morley, Congressman Karl E. Mundt, Mr. Henry Regnery, and Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/university-archives/holdings/fin

ding-aids

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-nua-archon-1223

http://uncap.lib.uchicago.edu/view.php?eadid=inu-ead-nua-archon-1223

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=inu-ead-nua-archon-1223

[0612] Kenneth W. Colegrove Papers, 1896-1974

Location: Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, P.O. Box 488, 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, IA 52358-0488

Description: Kenneth Wallace Colegrove was an anti-Communist historian and political scientist. The Subject File 1896-1974, contains folders on American Friends of the Captive Nations, Karl Baarslag, Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, William E. Borah, Brainwashing, John W. Bricker, Bricker Amendment, William F. Buckley, Edgar C. Bundy, Church League of America, Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, Citizens' Foreign Relations Committee, Committee of One Million, Communist Front Organizations, Communist Infiltration: Education, Federal Government, News Media, William T. Couch, Council Against Communist Aggression, Lucille Cardin Crain, Doenitz Release from Spandau, Educational Reviewer (Lucille Cardin Crain), Bonner Fellers, For America (Bonner Fellers), Foundation for Economic Education, Freedoms Foundation, Devin A. Garrity, J. H. Gipson, Barry Goldwater, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Herbert Hoover, House Un-American Activities Committee, Human Events, William E. Jenner, Jews, John Birch Society, Walter H. Judd, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, William F. Knowland, Alfred Kohlberg, Eugene Lyons, Douglas MacArthur, George W. Malone, J. B. Matthews, Pat McCarran, Joseph R. McCarthy, Robert R. McCormick, Modern Age, National Review, B. Carroll Reece, Henry Regnery, George Washington Robnett, Archibald Roosevelt, Robert A. Taft, Mrs. Garvin E. ("Bazy") Tankersley, John J. Theobald, Strom Thurmond, Walter Trohan, Freda Utley, Harold H. Velde, Francis E. Walter, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., Charles A. Willoughby, Robert E. Wood, Yalta, and Young Americans for Freedom.

Websites with information:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptcollections.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/hmother.html

Finding aids:

https://hoover.archives.gov/research/collections/manuscriptfindingaids/colegrove.html

http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/colegrov.htm

[0612a] J.P. Coleman collection, 1949-1985, MSS.381

Location: Special Collections, Mississippi State University Libraries, 395 Hardy Rd, P.O. Box 5408, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5408

Description: Speeches, public statements, clippings, campaign advertisements, government documents, scrapbooks, oral history interviews, M.A. thesis and seminar paper, concerning the public career of J. P. Coleman, Mississippi governor (1956-1960) and judge of U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Included is a copy of letter from Sam Ervin. Names include Ross Barnett, Theodore Bilbo, James O. Eastland, Medgar Evers, Carroll Gartin, Paul B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Walter Sillers, and John C. Stennis. Subjects include Civil Rights Movement, Constitution, Democratic Party, Race Relations, and University of Mississippi.

Finding aid:

http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/J.P._Coleman_collection_finding_aid_MSS.381.pdf

[0613] J. P. Coleman Papers, ca. 1930s-1960s, Z 1877.000 S

Location: Archives and Library Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Description: James Plemon Coleman (1914-1990) was elected governor of Mississippi in 1955 in the wake of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision of the United States Supreme Court and its mandate for racial integration of public schools. In 1957, Coleman insisted that all legal remedies at his disposal would be used to maintain segregation, and he urged the public not to provoke racial disturbances that would prompt President Eisenhower to send federal troops to Mississippi. Throughout his administration, the Citizens' Council, including one of its leaders Judge Tom P. Brady, publicly criticized Coleman for his moderate views on race. In 1965, he won confirmation as judge on the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, where he served for nineteen years. This collection contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence and other papers and records documenting J. P. Coleman's tenure as district attorney of the Fifth Circuit Court District of Mississippi (elected 1939); circuit judge of the Fifth Circuit Court District of Mississippi (elected 1946); Mississippi Supreme Court justice in September 1950; attorney general of Mississippi from October 1950 to January 1956; and governor of Mississippi from January 1956 to January 1960. Correspondents include Senator John C. Stennis and Congressman Jamie L. Whitten. Also included are letters concerning the Dixiecrat movement and states' rights issues, and files on the lynching of Emmett Till near Money in 1955.

Reference:

Anders Walker, The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Websites with information:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/?C=S;O=D

http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/index.html%3fC=S%3bO=D

Finding aid:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/manuscripts/z1877.html

[0614] Collected Magazine Articles About Huey Pierce Long, 1932-1941, RG 300

Location: Louisiana State Museum Historical Center, 400 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans, LA 70116

Description: Huey P. Long (1893-1935) was a Louisiana politician and lawyer who served as governor of the state from 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. This collection houses magazine articles about Huey Long from various publications including American Mercury, New Outlook, American Magazine, Atlanta, Collier's, Real America, Plain Talk, Liberty, Harper's, Time, Life, Famous Detective, and Saturday Evening Post.

Websites with information:

http://www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state-museum/collections/historical-center/manuscript-collections/finding-aids/index

http://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/Museum/collections/historiccenter/manuscripts/LHC_collectionsb.pdf

Finding aid:

http://www.crt.state.la.us/Assets/Museum/collections/historiccenter/manuscripts/RG_300.pdf

[0614a] Collection of alternative student newspapers at Purdue University, 1942-2008, MSP 99, OS M 1

Location: Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections, Research Center, Purdue University Libraries, 504 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2058

Description: Student newspapers documenting various aspects of life at Purdue University, including countercultural movements. Series 1. 1. Underground and Political Student Newspapers, 1942-2008, contains 12 issues of the Purdue Review, which was distributed by the University Conservative Action Network. The Purdue Review featured primarily news and conservative commentary on current events.

Finding aid:

http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/msp99_student.pdf

[0614b] A collection of American right wing publications and periodicals, chiefly published by Liberty & Property, Inc., 1955-1960

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Description: The collection consists of a quarto volume containing various publications bound together. The bulk of the collection is a full run of Right: A Monthly Bulletin of, by, and for the American Right Wing (No. 1 (October 1955)-No. 60 (September 1960)), a newsletter published by Liberty & Property, Inc. of San Francisco. Issues discuss such topics as William F. Buckley's National Review, Robert LeFevre's Freedom School in Colorado Springs, and the addition of fluoride into the public water supply. Contributors include Austin J. App, Byram Campbell, Willis A. Carto, Robert Kuttner, Lambert Schuyler, and Glenn O. Young. Also included are copies of The first national directory of "Rightist" groups, publications and some individuals in the United States (and some foreign countries) (3rd ed. San Francisco: Liberty and Property, 1957) with a 1960 typescript addendum of "Additions to the Directory"; 10 numbered tracts of excerpts from "Right" titled "From Right Newsletter" (San Francisco, Calif.: "Right"); The hybrid race doctrine: a critical analysis of some teachings of modern anthropology, by Bela Hubbard (San Francisco: Liberty and Property, [195-?]); and A three-part essay on cultural dynamics: with introductory comments on the philosophy of evolutionary ethics (Evotism) and a bibliography, by E. L. Anderson, Ph.D. [pseudonym of Willis A. Carto] (Sausalito, Calif.: Published by the League for Cultural Dynamics), containing reprints of articles which first appeared in "Right."

Reference:

David J. Gary, "A Grassroots View of the American Right, 1955-1960," Manuscripts and Archives Blog, November 13, 2014, http://campuspress.yale.edu/mssa/a-grassroots-view-of-the-american-right-1955-1960/.

Catalogue description:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12283339

[0614c] Collection of Autographs, 1619-1984 (bulk 1800-1950), BridColl 01

Location: BridArch 208.26, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 6425 Boaz Lane, Dallas TX 75205

Description: This manuscript collection comprises autographs and other documents bearing the signatures of more than two hundred seventeenth- through twentieth-century celebrities who lived in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany. Documents by Calvin Coolidge; Josephus Daniels; Gerald R. Ford; Herbert Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover; George C. Marshall typed document ("The Marshall Plan"), 1947 June 5; Richard M. Nixon; and Elihu Root.