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

was a banker, rancher, writer, and conservative political activist. He was one of the founders and a long-time member of the John Birch Society. Correspondents include Holmes Alexander, Norman Allderdice, Gary Allen, T. Coleman Andrews, L. Brent Bozell, William F. Buckley Jr., Howard Buffett, Campaign for the 48 States, Citizens for Foreign Aid, Barry Goldwater, J. Evetts Haley, Joseph P. Kamp, George Knupffer, Arthur Bliss Lane, Clare Boothe Luce, Clarence Manion, Joseph McCarthy, John Francis Neylan, Revilo Oliver, Westbrook Pegler, Ronald Reagan, Archie Roosevelt, John Rousselot, Dan Smoot, Robert B. Snowden, Scott Stanley (& The American Opinion), Robert Taft, Robert Welch, Rex Westerfield, and Wendell Willkie. Political correspondence concerning Edwin Walker. Series 3: Political Files, 1918-1977. Sub-series 2: Goldwater files, 1939-1977, includes correspondence with Barry Goldwater, speeches and addresses by Goldwater, and a copy of Brophy's pamphlet Must Barry Goldwater be Destroyed? Sub-series 3: Political Files, 1926-1975, contains files on American Party, American Liberty League, Americans for Constitutional Action, Campaign for the 48 States, Citizens for Foreign Aid, Crusade for Freedom, For America, Human Events, Fulton Lewis Programme, Liberty Amendment, National Review, National Economic Council, New Party, United States Flag Committee, Victory in Vietnam Committee, and Young Americans for Freedom. Series 9: Organizations, 1929-1975, contains files on Catholic Traditionalist movement. Correspondence, Catholic Traditionalist movement. Publications, Knights of Malta, Moral re-armament, and St. John of Jerusalem.

      Websites with information:

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

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/49605407

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/brophy-papers-frank-brophy-political-files-1918-1977/oclc/49605407

      Finding aid:

      http://www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/upLoads/library_Brophy-Family.pdf

      [0401] Lyle Brothers collection, 1965-1990, Coll. 8287

      Location: American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071

      Description: Lyle and Florence Brothers were nutrition counselors in Florida who collected right-wing literature and propaganda. The collection consists of a wide assortment of right-wing material. It contains nativist, fundamentalist, anti-Semitic, racist, Libertarian and Republican literature and propaganda. It is largely focused against Jews, Communists, Liberals, the Federal Reserve, National Association for Colored People, the United Nations, the Soviet Union, Communist China, and the Latin American liberation movement. There is also literature and propaganda in opposition to income taxes, modern art, progressive education, sex education, drugs, fluoridation of water, national health care, welfare for the poor, unions, government regulation of corporations and the media. The material supports a strong military, small businesses, corporate capitalism, the war on drugs, and the fundamentalist family and moral values. The John Birch Society, Aryan Nations and Don Bell materials are fairly representative.

      Websites with information:

      https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/_files/collection_guides/politics_guide_2009_ed2016.pdf

      https://web.archive.org/web/20160919110928/https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/guides/politics.pdf

      http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/collections/guides/cold-war.pdf

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

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/60610919

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1965-1990/oclc/60610919

      Finding aid:

      http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah08287.xml

      [0402] Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990

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

      Description: Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. The Earl Browder Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence-subject files, writings and memorabilia. Correspondence-subject files on Amerasia, America First Party, American Legion, Anti-Communist legislation, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Hitlerism and Latin America, Leon Milton Birkhead, Black Legion, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, Louis F. Budenz, Harry Flood Byrd, Sr., California State Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, William Henry Chamberlin, Whittaker Chambers, Charles Edward Coughlin, Edward Lodge Curran, Dies Committee, Everett M. Dirksen, Brice P. Disque, Bella V. Dodd, Max Eastman, Fascists in America, Hamilton Fish, III, Foreign Policy Association, Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Headlines and What's Behind Them, [Henry] Regnery Company, Institute of Pacific Relations, Virgil Jordan, Joseph P. Kamp, Alfred Kohlberg, Ku Klux Klan, Isaac Don Levine, Seymour Martin Lipset, Jay Lovestone, Clare Boothe Luce, Eugene Lyons, National Union for Social Justice, Westbrook Pegler, George Samuel Schuyler, Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith, Social Justice, George Ephraim Sokolsky, Maurice J. and Herbert A. Speiser, The Christian Front, The Fund for the Republic, Inc., and Harry Dexter White.

      Reference:

      Kathleen Manwaring, "Radicalism Collections in Syracuse University Library," American Communist History, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2006), pp. 173-192.

      Websites with information:

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

      http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ead/subj_list_from_db.htm

      Finding aids:

      http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/browder_e.htm

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

      [0403] Earl Browder Papers, 1891-1975 (Glen Rock, N.J., Microfilming Corporation of America, 1976) [microfilm]

      Description: Earl Browder (1891-1973) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States of America from 1929 to 1944. The Earl Browder papers were microfilmed as originally organized by the staff of the George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University. Added to the microfilm edition were such printed materials as Communist periodicals and bulletins, proceedings of the National Convention of the Communist Party of the United States of America from 1921 to 1972, and over 400 pamphlets, some of which do not exist in the Syracuse University collection.

      Reference:

      Earl Browder Papers, 1891-1975: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition, edited by Jack T. Ericson (Glen Rock, N.J., Microfilming Corp. of America, 1976).

      Websites with information:

      http://arachne.library.emory.edu/web/subjects/humanities/NEH/communism.html

      http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/collections/detail/Browder-Earl-Papers-62.shtml

      [0404] Arthur Brown Collection, 1976-2000, M0009444DO

      Location: Special Collections Room, The Sir Michael Cobham Library, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK

      Description: Arthur Brown is a former Police Inspector Cheshire Constabulary, and Lecturer in Law and Public Administration at West Cheshire College. Contains a copy of Peter Shipley, "The National Front: Racialism and neo-Fascism in Britain," Conflict Studies, no. 97, July 1978, and a box of left and right wing journals, including Black Flag and Bulldog, and other journals and flyers.

      Finding aid:

      http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using-the-library/arthur-brown.html

      [0405] Edgar A. Brown Papers, 1911-1975, MSS 91

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

      Description: Edgar A. Brown (1888-1975) was a South Carolina state senator, 1942-1972. Files on Augusta Courier, James F. Byrnes, Senator Homer Capehart, Civil Rights, Communism, Barry Goldwater, Roy V. Harris, Integration, Olin D. Johnston, Lester Maddox, Burnet R. Maybank, Richard Nixon, Segregation, J. Strom Thurmond, and Voter Registration (Voting Rights Act),