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

Location: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard, Yorba Linda, California 92886

Description: Richard Nixon represented California in the United States House of Representatives for two terms (1947-48 and 1949-50), serving on the House Education & Labor Committee and playing an active role on the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Nixon's Congressional papers include correspondence with constituents and other government officials as well as documents pertaining to HUAC, the Hiss-Chambers Case and the Herter Committee. Series I: Correspondence, contains files on U.S. Cong. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and Republican National Committee. Series II: Lists, News Releases, & Notes, contains files on Hiss-Chambers Case and Mundt-Nixon Bill. Series III: U.S. Cong. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), contains files on Mundt-Nixon Bill; Statement of Whittaker Chambers; General Leslie R. Groves, Louis J. Russell, and George Racey Jordan. Testimonies; Karl E. Mundt's "What the Hiss Trial Actually Means" speech; Sorge Espionage Case; Counterattack; and Printed Materials re: Hiss-Chambers Case. Series IV: Grand Jury Testimony, contains files on Elizabeth Bentley, Louis Budenz, Whittaker Chambers, Paul Crouch, Alger Hiss, Robert E. Stripling HUA investigator, Isaac Don Levine, Karl E. Mundt, Richard Nixon, Harold H. Velde, Harry Dexter White, and Max Yergan.

Finding aid:

https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/textual/findingaids/findingaid_congressional.pdf

[0647] Edwin Grant Conklin Papers, 1897-1952, C0322

Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Manuscripts Division, Princeton University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Description: Edwin Grant Conklin (1863-1952) was chairman of the biology department at Princeton from 1908 to 1933. His collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, documents, manuscripts and notes of articles, lectures, and speeches. Correspondents include James R. Angell, Charles B. Davenport, Madison Grant, Aleš Hrdlička, David Starr Jordan, Frederick Osborn, and Gifford Pinchot.

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/C0322

[0648] Connecticut State Labor Council, AFL-CIO Records, undated, 1909-1991, MSS 1989.0080

Location: Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, 405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205

Description: In 1957, the Connecticut Federation of Labor and the Connecticut State Industrial Union Council (CSIUC) merged to form the Connecticut State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, generally referred to today as the Connecticut State AFL-CIO. The stated purpose of the new organization was to provide a more effective means of promoting and coordinating the principles and objectives of the AFL-CIO in Connecticut. The collection contains a wide variety of materials documenting the activities of organized labor in Connecticut. Included are the files of several Council officers, proceedings, publications, administrative and financial records in addition to publications and information concerning the activities of the AFL-CIO nationally. The majority of the materials date from the 1950s through the 1980s. The collection contains files on right to work, right wing data, Fascism, fluoridation, the John Birch Society, anti-labor, right wing, subversive activities, and the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Websites with information:

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/dodda2z/AToZ.cfm

Finding aids:

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/CSLC/MSS19890080.html

http://137.99.31.136:8080/xtf/view?docId=finding_aids/MSS19890080.xml

[0649] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association records, 1869-1921, RG 101

Location: Connecticut State Library, 231 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106

Description: The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) was organized at a meeting in Robert's Opera House in Hartford on October 28th and 29th, 1869. Its primary aim having been achieved with the ratification by Connecticut of the 19th Amendment on September 14, 1920, the Association voted to dissolve itself on June 3, 1921. The CWSA collection not only contains records of meetings, correspondence, photographs and pamphlets, but also numerous scrapbooks that include relevant newspaper clippings. Includes files on Senator Frank Brandegee, who opposed woman suffrage.

Finding aid:

http://www.cslib.org/archives/finding_aids/rg101.html

[0650] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Movement Collection, 1876-1982 (bulk 1906-1925), MS 003

Location: Western Connecticut State University Archives and Special Collections, 181 White St, Danbury, CT 06810

Description: Collection contains Connecticut State Librarian Robert Schnare's research on the Connecticut suffrage movement between 1910 and 1920, and additional information on the movement prior to 1910 and from the relatively recent past. Includes research notes, bibliographies, inventories, indexes, newspaper articles, clippings, and a biography and notes regarding Senator Frank B. Brandegee, who opposed woman suffrage.

Finding aid:

http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/suffrage.xml

[0651] Philip Marshall Connelly Collection of Los Angeles CIO Industrial Union Council Records, 1942-1957, Coll. 2015

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: Philip "Slim" Connelly (1903-1981) worked at the Los Angeles Herald-Express and was president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and a leader of the Los Angeles Industrial Union Council (CIO) in the 1930s and 1940s. Collection includes materials about attack on council sponsored personnel on community agencies by right wing; activities surrounding the CIO's protest of Gerald L.K. Smith's visit to Los Angeles, 1945; anti-Mundt-Nixon Bill [requiring the registration of all Communist-front organizations and Communist Party members] campaign photos; and anti-Taft-Hartley campaign.

Websites with information:

http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/261/763117/Social_Movements_Query.pdf

http://guides.library.ucla.edu/loader.php?type=d&id=763117

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2k4017k0/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2k4017k0/entire_text/

[0652] Paul Conrad Cartoons, 1963-1969 [cartoons]

Location: Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries, 222 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2010

Description: Paul Conrad (1924-2010) was an American Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. The Paul Conrad Cartoons contain approximately 1,089 original editorial cartoons from 1963 to 1969. The cartoons from 1963 as well as several from 1964 date to Conrad's time at the Denver Post. The remaining the cartoons (the bulk of the collection) were published by the Los Angeles Times. People and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection include abortion, American Independent Party, anti-Semitism, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Ezra Taft Benson, civil rights, Everett Dirksen, Dwight Eisenhower, Amintore Fanfani, fascism, Barry Goldwater, Adolph Hitler, HUAC, integration, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan, Mark Lane, Curtis LeMay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Clare Boothe Luce, Douglas MacArthur, Lester Maddox, Joseph McCarthy, National States Rights Party, National Rifle Association, Nazism, Richard M. Nixon, prayer in schools, racism, Max Rafferty, Ronald Reagan, right to work law, right-wing extremists, George Lincoln Rockwell, Jack Ruby, segregation, Taft Hartley Act, Strom Thurmond, voting rights, George Wallace, Lurleen Wallace, John Wayne, and Young Republicans.

Websites with information:

http://findingaids.syr.edu/xtf/search?brand=ead;collection=ead;sort=title;titleAlpha=PP;

Finding aids:

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/c/conrad_p.htm

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/print/conrad_p_prt.htm

[0653] Conservative and Unionist Associations and Clubs, 1892-1985, MS152

Location: Perth & Kinross Council Archive, AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth PH2 8EP, UK

Description: Includes account books, cash books, committee minutes, cuttings books, election information folders, letter books, minutes, and registers of members.

Websites with information:

http://www.pkc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=14002&p=0

http://www.pkc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=796&p=0

Finding aid:

http://www.pkc.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=797&p=0

[0654] Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain leaflet collection, 1929-1953

Location: The William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, Mills Memorial Library, Lower Level, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W., Hamilton, ON, L8S 4L6, Canada

Description: The Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain was formed in 1886 when the Liberal Unionists allied with the Conservative Party although the name was not formally adopted until 1909. The leaflets and other publications in this collection were published by the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, the administrative and propaganda arm of the party.

Finding aids:

http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/c/conparty.htm

http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/findaids/c/conparty.htm

[0654a] Conservative catalogs and promotional literature collection, approximately 1960-approximately 1990, P-008 114:33

Location: Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis, 100 NW Quad, Davis, California 95616-5292

Description: The collection consists of catalogs and promotional materials primarily for anti-Communist books and other media. Other materials cover a wide spectrum of conservative and evangelical Christian topics.

Websites with information:

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/870465632

http://www.worldcat.org/title/conservative-catalogs-and-promotional-literature-collection/oclc/870465632

[0654b] Records of the Conservative Caucus

Location: Liberty University Archive, Jerry Falwell Library - 1971 University Blvd MSC Box 710170, Lynchburg, VA 24515

Description: The Conservative Caucus was founded by Howard Phillips in 1974 for the purpose of advocating conservative causes at the State and Congressional district level. The Conservative Caucus has campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment, the surrender of the Panama Canal, the SALT II Treaty, and socialized medicine. The Caucus has advocated tax cuts and missile defense systems for America. Howard Phillips also helped to found Concerned Women for America (CWA) and the Council for National Policy. In 2014 the Conservative Caucus changed its name to Americans for Constitutional Liberty (ACL). Record Group 1: Correspondence of Howard Phillips, 1978-1983, contains the business and personal correspondence of Conservative Caucus founder Howard Phillips, including letters, memos, newspaper articles, journal articles, brochures, newsletters, reports and miscellaneous materials.

Finding aid:

http://www.liberty.edu/media/1420/documents/archivefindingaids/CC_RG-01.pdf

[0655] Conservative Collection, 1952-1982 (bulk 1960s), SPEC.004

Location: Ball State University Archives and Special Collections, Alexander M. Bracken Library, Room 210, 2000 W. University Avenue, Muncie, Indiana 47306

Description: The Conservative collection documents the history, policies, and activities of organizations perceived as conservative or the right wing of the political spectrum. This collection includes monographs, newsletters, flyers, brochures, pamphlets, and other ephemera, often with limited distribution. Subjects include anti-Semitism, civil rights, disarmament, foreign aid, immigration, integration, law enforcement, pornography, public welfare, race, religion, state rights, taxation, voting rights, and world government. Monographs, 1960-1964, includes The Secret Government of the United States, by Mary M. Davison (1962); The Biology of the Race Problem, by Wesley Critz George (1962) [online at http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/G/Ge/George_Wesley_Critz_-_The_biology_of_the_race_problem.pdf]; The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations, by G. Edward Griffin (1964); Disarmament: Weapon of Conquest, by Robert Morris (1963); Pass the Poverty Please, by Patty Newman (1966); America's Promise, by Dan Smoot (1960); and It's Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights, by Alan Stang (1965) [online at https://sites.google.com/site/heavenlybanner/its-very-simple-the-true-story-of-civil-rights]. Newsletters, 1957-1977, includes AIMS Newsletter; Between the Lines; Christian Crusade; Church and State; Common Sense; Counterattack; Cross and the Flag; Dan Smoot Report; Economic Council Letter; Focus/Midwest; Freedom Club Bulletin; Freedom Magazine; Freedom & Union; Heads Up; Human Events; Independent American; Individualist; Intercollegiate Review; Intercollegiate Society of Individualists, Inc., Essay Series; John Birch Society, Bulletin; Liberty; Liberty Letter; Life Lines; Manion Forum Newsletter; National Program Letter; New Guard; News from the Free Society; Notes from FEE; Oklahoma Christian College Letter; Petitioner; Pink Sheet on the Left; POLIS; Reason: A Review of Politics; Report on Freedom; Review of the News; Right Guard; Task Force; Washington Report; Washington Observer Newsletter; and Weekly Crusader. Organizational Flyers and Brochures, 1955-1976, includes Alabama Committee to Support Your Local Police; America's Future, Inc.; American Committee for Liberation; American Economic Foundation; American Opinion; American Eagle Publishing Company; American Bar Association; American Education Council; American Conservative Union; Arkansas Committee to Support Your Local Police; Bookmailer, Inc.; Chamber of Commerce, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; China Policy Study Group; Christian Nationalist Crusade; Christian Educational Association; Christian Information Bureau; Christian Anti-Communism Crusade; Christian Crusader; Churchman Associates, Churchman; Cinema Educational Guild; Citizen's Committee; Citizen's Councils of America; Cleanamation, Inc.; Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China into the U.N.; Committee of Christian Laymen Inc. of Woodland Hills; Committee to Free the Korean War Prisoners; Conservative Viewpoint; Conservative Book Club; Constitutional Alliance, Inc.; Constructive Action, Inc.; Council of 1776; Council for Statehood; Council on American Relations; Crestwood Books; Defender of the American Constitution; Delaware County Christian Laymen's Association; Delmarva to Restore American Independence Now Committee; Earlham College Conservative Club; Factual Reports, Inc.; Free Society Association; Freedom Center; Freedom Information Center Book Store; Freeman Institute; Grand Central Industrial Centre; History Study Club; Honest Dollar Committee; Independent American; Intercollegiate Society of Individualists; International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics; International Youth Federation for Freedom, Inc.; John Birch Society; Korean Cultural and Freedoms Foundation, Inc.; Ku Klux Klan, articles, letters; Laymen's Commission of the American Council of Christian Churches; Liberty Lobby; Liberty Amendment Committee; Liberty Bell; Life Line; Long House, Inc.; MARAH, Inc.; Minute Women of the USA, Inc.; Movement to Impeach Earl Warren; Nathaniel Branden Institute; National Committee for a Free Europe; National Council of Churches of Christ; National Defense Committee, NSDAR; National Council of American-Soviet Friendship; National Education Program; New World Christian; Operation Truth, Inc.; Patrick Henry Group; Paul Revere Associated Yeoman, Inc.; Sons of the American Revolution; State Textbooks Committee; Stop the War Committee; T.R.A.I.N. Committee of Maryland; Truth about Cuba Committee; Women for Constitutional Government; and Young Americans for Freedom.

Websites with information:

http://as20452.http.sasm3.net/academics/libraries/collectionsanddept/archives/collections/rarebooks/speci

alcollections

https://cms.bsu.edu/academics/libraries/collectionsanddept/archives/collections/rarebooks/specialcollection

s/conservative

http://cms.bsu.edu/academics/libraries/collectionsanddept/archives/collections/rarebooks/specialcollections

/conservative

http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/Libraries/CollectionsAndDept/Archives/Collections/RareBooks/SpecialCollecti

ons/Conservative.aspx

http://as20452.http.sasm3.net/en/academics/libraries/collectionsanddept/archives/collections/rarebooks/sp

ecialcollections/conservative

Finding aids:

http://www.bsu.edu/libraries/archives/findingaids/SPEC004.html

https://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/123456789/196651/1/SPEC.004.pdf

http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/123456789/196651/2/SPEC.004.pdf.txt

http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/196651/SPEC.004.pdf.txt;jsessionid=70CCEF916

0D6EB81EE3C14A5D2F5DBF1?sequence=2

[0656] Conservative Dissent Literature Collection, 1949-1987, Coll. 185

Location: Northwest Louisiana Archives, Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, LA 71115

Description: Publications and writings of an ultra-conservative nature. Publications by Americanism Forum (Shreveport, La.), W. A. Criswell, Jerry Falwell, Billy James Hargis, John Birch Society, Carl McIntire, Gerald L. K. Smith, and George C. Wallace.

Websites with information:

http://scripts.lsus.edu/libarchives/collections.php?collection=185

http://web.archive.org/web/20121111022943/http://www.nwla-archives.org/guide/coll019.htm

[0657] Conservative groups clippings 1963-1992

Location: Monterey Public Library, California History Room, 625 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940

Description: On the John Birch Society and other groups.

Websites with information:

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

[0657a] Conservative National Party Papers, 1966-1968, PV 92

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: The Conservative National Party was founded in February 1966 by the Pretoria Conservative Study Group. In the 1966 election it contested one seat unsuccessfully.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=196

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

[0657b] Conservative National Party Study Group Papers, PV 92

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: The Conservative National Party Study Group was established in Pretoria on 5 February 1966.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

[0658] Conservative Party Archive, 1867-present

Location: Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG United Kingdom

Description: Established in 1978, the Conservative Party Archive is the official repository for the historic records of the Conservative Party's central organisation, 1867-present, including papers of Conservative Central Office from the 1930s and the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, the Party's grass-roots membership organisation, from 1867, and certain regional records, and a library of published and printed material. The Archive contains thousands of policy papers, speeches, election leaflets, posters and photographs. Conservative Party Archive: Published Material, 1868-2005, Shelfmarks: PUB 1-229, consists of Party publications, including leaflets, pamphlets, campaign guides and journals. The section Conservative Central Office (CCO), 1892-1993, contains, within PUB 27/1, a copy of "Admission of Foreign Paupers" (1892) (reproduced online at http://conservativepartyarchive.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-admission-of-foreign-paupers.html), an anti-immigration election pamphlet published during the General Election campaign in June 1892. Published Material: Conservative Party newsletters, journals and periodicals, 1893-2002, Shelfmarks: PUB A, contains, as PUB 220/1, etc., a file of the Party's official journal of record, National Union Gleanings, published from 1893 to the present (known from 1912 as Gleanings & Memoranda), and, as PUB 214/1, a file of Tory Challenge, Jul 1947-Sep 1953, a Conservative Party newsletter published monthly by Conservative Central Office, under editor-in-chief E.D. O'Brien. Papers of the Vice Chairmen, 1948-75, Shelfmarks: CCO 60/1-4, in CCO 60/1/1, contains Republican National Committee ephemera for the U.S. presidential election of 1956 [online in part at http://conservativepartyarchive.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-like-ike-and-media-events-of-first.html]. Published Material: Conservative Party pamphlets, 1868-2008, Shelfmarks: PUB B, includes, under the section Conservative Political Centre (CPC) pamphlets, 1945-1998, as PUB 165/21, a copy of The Literature of Politics, by T.S. Eliot, with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden, MP (June 1955); and, under the section Miscellaneous publications, 1878-1989, as PUB 190/8, a copy of Armaments and Policy 1919-1939, The Plain Facts (1945), and, as PUB 190/13, a copy of Solon - A Right-Wing Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1-Vol. 1 No. 4 (Oct. 1969-Oct. 1970). Published Material: Think Tanks, 1943-2006 (58 shelfmarks), consists of pamphlets, journals, and newsletters published by Conservative-leaning think tanks, including files on The Monday Club, 1960-1989, a group which promoted a policy of voluntary, or assisted, repatriation for non-white immigrants; it was ultimately because of its race and immigration policies that the Conservative Party suspended its long-standing link with the Monday Club in October 2001. Monday Club Pamphlets, 1960-89, include Rhodesia: A Minority View, speeches delivered at a meeting on 3 Feb. 1966, featuring the speeches of Lord Salisbury, Julian Amery, Stephen Hastings, Patrick Wall, John Biggs-Davison, and Gerald Sparrow (1966) (PUB 117/18), and Towards a Solution, by Julian Amery (1974) (PUB 117/38). Papers of Swinton College, [Minutes and papers,] 1948-78, Shelfmarks: S 1-17, concerns the administration of Swinton College near Masham in Yorkshire, the third and final Conservative College, and includes correspondence between the Principal and the Governors, various committee meetings, course scholarships, and copies of its published journal. Contains, as S 17, Swinton Conservative College (Conservative Colleges Ltd.) - minute book, 1949-52. Conservative Party-affiliated organisations for which records are held in the Conservative Party Archive include Association of Conservative Clubs, Conservative Health, Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council, Conservative Group for Europe, Conservative Councillors' Association, Conservative Future, Conservative Women's Organisation, Conservative Friends of Poland, Federation of Conservative Students, Federation of Conservative Graduates, Junior Imperial League, National Society of Conservative & Unionist Agents, Society of Conservative Lawyers, Young Conservatives, and Young Britons' Organisation.

References:

Archives of the British Conservative Party 1867-1986: A Detailed Guide to the Microform Collections (Reading, 1989); Archives of the British Conservative Party 1867-1992: A Detailed Guide to the Microform Collections (Reading, Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group, 1998); Ilaria Favretto, "British Political Parties' Archives: an exemplary case," Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1997, pp. 205-213.