Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: A Guide to Archives
Finding aid:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/smu/00249/smu-00249.html
Websites with information:
http://www.smu.edu/-/media/Site/Bridwell/Archives/BridArchCollectionList.ashx?la=en
[0615] [A collection of clippings and pamphlets on immigration restriction published in the U.S. in the 1890's. Collected by Prescott F. Hall, secretary of the Immigration Restriction League, Boston, Mass.] (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library Imaging Services, 1979), Film W 7850 [microfilm]
Description: Includes copies of Charles Stewart Smith, "Our National Dumping-Ground. A Study of Immigration," The North American Review, Vol. 154, Issue 425 (April 1892), pp. 432-439 [online at http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=nora;cc=nora;rgn=full%20text;idno=nora0154-4;didno=nora0154-4;view=image;seq=0436;node=nora0154-4%3A5]; Vernon R. Andrew, "The Nation's Duty Toward Her Citizens," American Journal of Politics, Vol. 3 (October 1893), pp. 426-429 [online at https://books.google.com/books?id=oUA8AQAAIAAJ
&pg=PA426#v=onepage&q&f=false and https://ia801406.us.archive.org/2/items/americanjournal09unkngoog/ame
ricanjournal09unkngoog.pdf]; and Arnold White, "Immigration of Aliens," Charities Review, Vol. 3 (December 1893), pp. 70-78 [online at https://books.google.com/books?id=asJCAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70#v=onepage&q&f=false].
Reference:
S.A. Pletnev, "Neytivizm v obshchestvenno-politicheskoy zhizni SSHA na iskhode XIX stoletiya" (Moscow, 1996), http://mirznanii.com/a/333473-1/neytivizm-v-obshchestvenno-politicheskoy-zhizni-ssha-na-iskhode-xix-stoletiya.
Websites with information:
http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/004924295/catalog
http://hollis.harvard.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=HV
D_ALEPH004924295
http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/NT3FDHI68T1QNS8INVY9N2PRKCQSUL4FIJHAQ7A7YSDMUHSD4Y-08762?func=fi
nd-acc&acc_sequence=040880240
[0615a] Collection of newspaper clippings compiled by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Location: Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045
Description: The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is the criminal investigative arm of the state of Kansas. Photocopied clippings about the American Agricultural Movement—American Heritage Fellowship—Citizens Grand Jury of Kansas (Posse Comitatus)—Farm foreclosures—Farm foreclosures - Alvin Matzke, Stanley Matzke—Farm foreclosures - Jerry Wright—Farmers Liberation Army—Federal Reserve System/IRS - evasion of—Grain elevator bankruptcies - Wayne Cryts—Gordon Kahl—Kansas Farmers Defense Fund—KTTL-FM, Charles & Nellie Babbs—Ku Klux Klan - Christian Patriots Defense League—Militancy—Paramilitary training legislation (Posse Comitatus)—Paramilitary training legislation (Posse Comitatus) - Tom Wempe—Payment in Kind (PIK program)—Posse Comitatus.
Websites with information:
http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=8246496
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/939974470
http://www.worldcat.org/title/collection-of-newpaper-clippings-compiled-by-the-kansas-bureau-of-investigation/oclc/939974470
[0615b] A Collection of Scrapbooks, 1850-1950, Coll. 155
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 scrapbooks, containing clippings, broadsides, manuscripts, portraits, photographs, and ephemera covering a variety of subjects. Includes the following scrapbooks: Corinne Griffith scrapbook, 1926-1927; Alfred Guido Castles scrapbooks, ca. 1920-1935 (2 vols.), with newspaper clippings relating chiefly to Charles Lindbergh; Fascism in America, Utopians, Silver Shirts, Other Organizations, Civil Liberties & anti-communism scrapbook, ca. 1934, with clippings mainly from Los Angeles; Hollywood for Dewey scrapbook, 1944, containing photographs, clippings, publicity and correspondence of the Hollywood committee to support the 1944 Thomas E. Dewey presidential campaign; and McCarthy era scrapbooks, 1948-1953 (2 vols.), with newspaper clippings relating to anti-Semitism and anti-Communism abroad and in the United States and clippings on the Hollywood Ten.
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c87d2sm5/entire_text/
[0615c] Collection of Select Letters from American Political Figures, 1788-1949, MS 91-12
Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, KS 67260-0068
Description: This collection contains single letters from various American diplomats and politicians, including Harry F. Byrd (agreeing that the Taft-Hartley Bill should not be repealed), Hiram Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (agreeing that President Roosevelt should not be given power to enlarge the Supreme Court), Elihu Root, and Robert A. Taft.
Websites with information:
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/msub-a.html
Finding aid:
http://specialcollections.wichita.edu/collections/ms/91-12/91-12-A.HTML
[0615d] Collection on Politics, 1774-2015 (bulk 1860-1997), PRO2014.12
Location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
Description: The collection consists of materials relating to both New York City and national politics. Series I: 1789-2013 (bulk 1880s), contains materials relating to the local or national campaigns, elections and inaugurations of political figures. Material formats include leaflets, petitions, circulars, invitations, and programs. New York City political materials include campaign literature from Rudy Giuliani (1993 and 1997). Materials related to national campaigns include materials related to Dwight D. Eisenhower's first Presidential campaign, including tickets to an October 1952 Eisenhower rally at Madison Square Garden, and the program for an October 1952 Eisenhower-Nixon dinner held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Both events were affiliated with the New York County Republican Committee. Series II: 1774-2004, contains materials relating to local and national political groups, parties and events. Parties represented include the Independent Greenback Party and Republicans.
Websites with information:
https://mcnycatablog.org/category/manuscript-collections/
https://mcnycatablog.org/2016/11/17/museum-of-the-city-of-new-york-collection-on-politics-1774-2013-bulk-1860-1997/
Finding aid:
https://mcnycatablogdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/politics-finding-aid.pdf
[0615e] Collection on World War I and World War II, 1917-1945 (bulk 1917-1919 and 1941-1945), PRO2014.11
Location: Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029
Description: The collection contains materials related to New York during the two World Wars. Materials found in the collection include pamphlets with information on volunteer services, ration books, certificates of honorable service, and emergency information booklets. World War I Files on American Defense Society and American Protective League.
Websites with information:
https://mcnycatablog.org/category/manuscript-collections/
https://mcnycatablog.org/2014/12/22/collection-on-world-war-i-and-world-war-ii-1917-1945-bulk-1917-1919-and-1941-1945/
Finding aid:
https://mcnycatablogdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/war-finding-aid2.pdf
[0616] Collections and secret police reports on the Black Hundred
Location: Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archive of the Russian Federation, or GARF), 119435, Moscow, ul. Much pirogovskaya 17, and 121059, Moscow, Berezhkovskaya nab., 26, Russia
Description: The reports include discussions of members' activities, reports on monarchist congresses, and relevant clippings from both the left-wing and right-wing press.
Reference:
Jacob Langer, "Corruption and the Counterrevolution: the Rise and Fall of the Black Hundred" (Ph.D., Duke University, 2007), http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/438/D_Langer_Jacob_a_200712.pdf?seque
nce=1.
State Archive web page:
http://statearchive.ru
[0616a] College of Charleston Library vertical file on Citizens for Decency Through Law, 1976-1981, Mss 0034-076
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection consists of newsletters, pamphlets, and correspondence created by Citizens for Decency through Law. The bulk of the collection is copies of the organization's newsletters, the National Decency Reporter and the CDL Reporter. Each of the items warns of the dangers of obscenity and pornography.
Websites with information:
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1446082
[0617] College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, 1973-1985, Mss 0034-046
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes numerous publications published by or distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade of Long Beach, California.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1439505
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0618] College of Charleston Vertical File on "The Christian Confederate Star," 1969-1971, Mss 0034-023
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes three issues of "The Christian Confederate Star." It was a conservative newsletter published in Fletcher, Missouri. The file includes the April to May, 1969, September to October 1970, and June-July 1971 editions of the paper. Each of the issues support the cause of "states' rights" and the creation of a Christian theocracy based on the government of the Confederate States of America.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1446767
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0619] College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the Citizens' Councils of America, 1973-1986, Mss 0034-039
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes numerous documents published by the Citizens' Councils of America between 1973 and 1986.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1439503
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0619a] College of Charleston Library vertical file on the Greensboro Incident of 1979, 1979-1980, Mss 0034-065
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection consists of numerous clippings and pamphlets concerning the Greensboro Incident of 1979. The materials describe the murder of 5 members of the Communist Workers Party by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. Most of the materials were published by the Communist Workers Party.
Websites with information:
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1442356
[0620] College of Charleston Library Vertical File on "The Independent American," 1958-1973, Mss 0034-087
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes three publications produced by the staff of the "Independent American." It was a conservative newsletter published in Louisiana from 1955 until 1971 by "Free Men Speak, Inc." After 1971, it was published in Littleton, Colorado. The file includes a special issue of the newsletter from 1968 titled "Special Emergency Mailing Regarding Riots," and two pamphlets. Both pamphlets decry the abuse of power by federal authorities.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1446020
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0621] College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the Ku Klux Klan, 1973-1981, Mss 0034-066
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes numerous newspaper clippings concerning the Ku Klux Klan and some documents published by the Klan.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1441329
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://www.worldcat.org/title/college-of-charleston-library-vertical-file-on-the-ku-klux-klan-1973-1981/oclc/
51854290
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0622] College of Charleston Library Vertical File on the National Socialist White People's Party, 1973-1979, Mss 0034-041
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection includes numerous documents published by the National Socialist White People's Party. It also includes correspondence between an unidentified member of the library staff concerning a subscription to the organization's newsletter.
Websites with information:
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1439504
http://153.9.241.200/wordpress/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
[0622a] College of Charleston Library vertical file on The Southern Libertarian Messenger, 1981-1983, Mss 0034-088
Location: Special Collections—Manuscripts, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29424
Description: The collection consists of six issues of The Southern Libertarian Messenger, a Libertarian Party newsletter published in Florence, South Carolina, beginning in 1972 by Quality Education, Inc. and John Harllee. The file includes the January 1981, February 1981, March 1981, April 1981, August 1983, and September 1983 issues. The issues feature political opinions and official Libertarian Party news for the Libertarian Party of South Carolina.
Websites with information:
http://speccoll.cofc.edu/explore-our-collections/manuscript-collections/manuscripts-collections-a-z/
http://libcat.cofc.edu/record=b1458980
[0622b] College Republican National Committee Records, 1967-1974, Coll. 85009
Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, financial records, campaign material, and printed matter, relating to student involvement in Republican political activity. Files on the Republican National Committee.
Websites with information:
https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/754872160
http://www.worldcat.org/title/college-republican-national-committee-records-1967-1974/oclc/754872160
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1779n4px/entire_text/
[0623] Charles Wallace Collins papers, 1915-1972 (bulk 1925-1970), Coll. 86-127
Location: Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries, Hornbake Library, College Park, MD 20742
Description: Charles Wallace Collins (1879-1964) was a lawyer, writer, and librarian. He wrote several books and pamphlets expressing his views supporting "states' rights" and segregation. His book Whither Solid South? a pro-segregation treatise published in 1947, rallied the Dixiecrat Party in the presidential election of 1948. Other significant works included a pamphlet titled "The South Must Not Surrender" (1948), and The Race Integration Cases (1954). The papers consist of correspondence, clippings, essays, articles, pamphlets, and other publications generated or collected by Collins and his wife, Sue Spencer Collins. Series 2: Writings, 1921-1957, contains clippings on state's rights and segregation, 1948-1951; pieces by CWC on civil rights, states's rights; documents on the United Nations, 1949-1953; pieces by CWC on segregation, state's rights, political parties, and democracy, 1949-1954; pamphlets on integration and civil rights, 1950-1954; Henry Regnery Company, Publishers-correspondence, 1952-1953; correspondence and writing on segregation, 1953-1954; and Whither Solid South?—Drafts.
Finding aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1724
[0624] Seward Collins Papers, 1918-1952 (bulk dates 1927-1937), YCAL MSS 12
Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, P. O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Description: Seward Bishop Collins (1899-1952) was an American editor and publisher. In 1928 Collins, who had bought The Bookman the previous year, came under the influence of Irving Babbitt and the other leading humanist author of the day, Paul Elmer More. Around the same time, Collins's politics changed from leftist to ultra-conservative and, in certain aspects, pro-fascist, and his new philosophical and political views became more and more evident in the pages of The Bookman. In April 1933 The Bookman was succeeded by The American Review. This new monthly became a vehicle to publish the views of the revolutionary or conservative right, as Collins sought to present an Americanized version of fascism as a solution to the politically troubled 1930s. The journal was devoted to contemporary American economics, politics, philosophy, and literature, and for a little over four years served as a major forum for several "conservative-traditionalist" movements, notably the Humanists (Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More), the Neo-Scholastics (in Collins' terminology, this would include T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), the Distributists (G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and A. J. Penty), the Monarchists (Hoffman Nickerson and Ralph Adams Cram), and the Agrarians (Donald Davidson and numerous others). The papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review. Correspondence with Irving Babbitt, Hilaire Belloc, William E. Borah, John Chamberlain, G. K. Chesterton, Ralph Adams Cram, Donald Davidson, Max Eastman, T. S. Eliot, Norman Foerster, Wyndham Lewis, J. B. Matthews, Paul Elmer More, Hoffman Nickerson, Ezra Pound, Porter Sargent, Robert Shafer, Lothrop Stoddard, and Dorothy Thompson. Subject files on Irving Babbitt, Hilaire Belloc, John R. Chamberlain, G. K. Chesterton, Donald Davidson, Distributionism, T. S. Eliot, Fascism, Griebl Nazi Spy Case [Dr. Ignatz T. Griebl], and Paul Elmer More.
References:
Seward Collins, "Monarch as Alternative," American Review (Apr. 1933), pp. 22-27, reprinted in Conservatism in America since 1930: A Reader, edited by Gregory L. Schneider (New York and London, New York University Press [2003]), pp. 16-28, http://www.wpia.uni.lodz.pl/cms/pliki_upload/MX-5001N_20110308_154022_Compressed.pdf; Albert E. Stone, Jr., "Seward Collins and the American Review: Experiment in Pro-Fascism, 1933-37," American Quarterly 12 (Spring 1960): 3-19; Edward S. Shapiro, "American Conservative Intellectuals, the 1930's, and the Crisis of Ideology," Modern Age, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Fall 1979), pp. 370-380, https://isistatic.org/journal-archive/ma/23_04/shapiro.pdf; Mark Royden Winchell, Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson & the Southern Resistance (Columbia and London, University of Missouri Press [2000]); Michael Jay Tucker, And Then They Loved Him: Seward Collins & the Chimera of an American Fascism (Peter Lang, 2006).
Finding aid:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.collins
http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/beinecke:collins/PDF
[0625] William M. Colmer Papers, 1933-1973, Coll. M24
Location: Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive #5148, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5148
Description: Colmer (1890-1980) was elected to his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1933. Although he entered the Congress as a Franklin D. Roosevelt New Dealer and remained a life-long member of the Democratic Party, he frequently supported Republican candidates and his political philosophy evolved toward conservatism. Correspondence, legislative files, speeches, newsletters, photographs, motion picture film, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and artifacts. Correspondence from James F. Byrnes, Senator Pat McCarran, Dorothy Thompson, and Ex-Senator Wheeler. Statement on the Supreme Court's school segregation decision, May 17, 1954. Congressional Record copy of the Southern Manifesto called "Statement of Constitutional Principles," etcetera); 1954, 1956 (Manila envelope with signatures on second Southern Manifesto called "Warning of Grave Danger" - July 13, 1956 [online at http://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/ref/collection/JWS_race/id/2054 and at https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=
cqal56-1349403]); 1954, 1953-55. Files on Anti-Communist Legislation, Anti-Lynch Bill, Anti-Poll Tax Bill, Senator Bilbo, Citation of Joseph P. Kamp, August 31, 1950, David Lawrence, General MacArthur, Senator McCarthy, Raymond Moley, Wright Patman, Poll Tax, Putnam Letter, January 29, 1959, School Segregation, Share-The-Wealth - 1935 (Huey Long's proposal), States' Rights, Senator Stennis, Senator Talmadge, and Senator Thurmond; and Four-page letter to President Eisenhower re Civil Rights Bill - July 12, 1957 - mimeographed [online at http://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/lcdl:87102].
Reference:
Alan Brinkley, "Huey Long, The Share Our Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence," Louisiana History 22.2 (Spring 1981), pp. 117-134, http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/Radhistory/radical%20history%20articles/Huey%20Long%20and%20Limits%20of%20US%20Dissent.pdf.
Websites with information:
http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/lists-of-collections/alphabetical.html
Finding aids:
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfl.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfltext.htm
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm?m024text.htm~mainFrame
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024bfl.htm?m024bfltext.htm~mainFrame
http://lib.usm.edu/spcol/collections/manuscripts/finding_aids/m024
[0625a] Harry W. Colmery Collection, ca. 1911-ca. 1979 (bulk ca. 1925-ca. 1965), Ms. Collection no. 795
Location: Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615-1099