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

In 1955, Buckley (1925-2008) founded the influential magazine National Review, credited as the foundation of mainstream conservative thought. From 1966 to 1999, Buckley hosted political and cultural debates on Firing Line, one of television's longest running programs. The author of over 50 books, Buckley also wrote the twice-weekly syndicated newspaper column, "On the Right." Two volumes comprise the William F. Buckley Firing Line Catalog, 1999, documenting the public television debate program, which ran from 1966 to 1999. One volume gives a summary listing for the show's 1504 individual episodes, including the title, featured guests, and taping date and location, while the catalog offers greater description of each episode's content.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/nhprc/collections.php

      Finding aid:

      http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/02704/cah-02704.html

      [0415] William F. Buckley Jr., Papers

      Location: Mossey Library, Hillsdale College, 33 East College St., Hillsdale, MI 49242

      Description: In 2004, William F. Buckley Jr. sent Hillsdale College thousands of the columns, speeches, and articles that he had written over the years.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2013/02/the-lost-library-of-conservative-thought/

      https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/02/william-buckley-hillsdale-college/

      [0416] William F. Buckley, Jr. papers, 1918-2008, MS 576

      Location: Manuscripts and Archives Division, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University Library, Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520; 128 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8240

      Description: Buckley (1925-2008), founder of the magazine The National Review, wrote a nationally syndicated column and hosted the weekly television show Firing Line from 1966 through 1999. In 1965 Buckley ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative Party candidate for mayor of New York City. Contains material relating to Ayn Rand. The unrestricted papers consist of correspondence, news releases, clippings, and subject files from William F. Buckley's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York; and letters and scrapbooks concerning God and Man at Yale.

      Reference:

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

      Websites with information:

      http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4291652

      http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/record.php?id=702156596

      https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/702156596

      http://www.worldcat.org/title/william-f-buckley-jr-papers-1951-2008-inclusive/oclc/702156596

      [0417] Buckley Online [digital collection]

      Location: Hillsdale College, 33 East College St., Hillsdale, MI 49242

      Description: This website contains the complete writings of William F. Buckley, Jr., searchable by date or keyword. There are, for example, mentions of the John Birch Society (111 items), Bricker Amendment (9 items), Whittaker Chambers (174 items), Frank Chodorov (25 items), T. S. Eliot (13 items), Barry Goldwater (274 items), Alger Hiss (136 items), Herbert Hoover (53 items), J. Edgar Hoover (90 items), Willmoore Kendall (46 items), Russell Kirk (69 items), Ku Klux Klan (74 items), Clare Boothe Luce (63 items), Joseph McCarthy (39 items), Clarence Manion (11 items), Westbrook Pegler (46 items), Ezra Pound (17 items), Protocols of the Elders of Zion (3 items), Ronald Reagan (740 items), Henry Regnery (26 items), George Sokolsky (23 items), Robert Taft (44 items), Eliseo Vivas (5 items), Eric Voegelin (31 items), Richard Weaver (9 items), General A.C. Wedemeyer (3 items), and Young Americans for Freedom (45 items).

      Finding aid:

      https://cumulus.hillsdale.edu/Buckley/

      [0418] Louis F. Budenz papers, 1912-1971

      Location: Phillips Memorial Library, Special and Archival Collections, Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918-0001

      Description: Until 1945, Louis F. Budenz (1891-1972) was a labor activist and prime supporter of the United States Communist Party. In 1940, a publication appeared by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen titled Communism: Answers to a Communist. In this pamphlet Sheen directs his words against several of Budenz's pro-Communist writings. This, along with Budenz's meeting with Sheen involving a discussion of Communism and Catholicism, led to Budenz's October 10, 1945, announcement conveying his rejection of Communism and return to the Roman Catholic Church. The series McCarthy Materials, 1956-1957, contains correspondence between Budenz and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and reports and statements written by Senator McCarthy. Also contains correspondence with George S. Benson and Alfred Kohlberg. Publications include copies of Concentration Camps U.S.A., by Charles R. Allen, Jr. (1966); American Bar Association Brief on Communism: Marxism-Leninism Its Aims, Purposes, Objectives, and Practices (1951); The American Legion Counter-Subversive Manual (1955); Senator Fulbright's Secret Memorandum, by James D. Bales (1962); Understanding Communism, by James D. Bales (1962); What to do About Communism in Unions, by L. R. Boulware (1952); The Great Communist Schism, by William Henry Chamberlin (undated); Communism: A World Menace, by John F. Cronin (1947); Communism: Threat to Freedom, by John F. Cronin (1962); Communism, by Richard J. Cushing (undated); Questions and Answers on Communism (Booklet 1), by Richard Cushing (1961); The Red Menace, by Richard Cushing (1959); The Big Decision, by Matthew Cvetic (1959); The Un-Americans, by Frank J. Donner (1961); Red Intrigue and Race Turmoil, by Zygmund Dobbs (1958); The Moral Struggle, by Thomas J. Dodd (1962); Red China and the United Nations, by Peter H. Dominick (undated); How You Can Abolish United Nations, by Myron C. Fagan (undated); McCarthy: His War on American Reds, and the Story of Those who Oppose Him, by John T. Flynn (1954); The Road Ahead, by John T. Flynn (1949); Race, Heredity and Civilization: Human Progress and the Race Problem, by W. George (1963); Invasion Alert! Red China Drives on the UN, by Joseph C. Grew (1956); The Hate Campaign Against the U.N., by Gordon D. Hall (1952); Communism and You, by Billy James Hargis (undated); We Have Been Betrayed, by Billy James Hargis (1961); I Like America, by Granville Hicks (1938); State Department Half Thoughts and False Assurances Regarding the U.N. Charter, Genocide Convention and Proposed Covenant on Human Rights, by Frank E. Holman (1952); The John Franklin Letters (1959); Behind the Lace Curtains of the YWCA, by Joseph P. Kamp (1948); Communist-Socialist Propaganda in American Schools, by Verne P. Kaub (1953); Brainwashing and Senator McCarthy, by Joseph Z. Kornfeder (1954); America's Tragedy-Today, by Hamilton A. Long (1950); Voice of Peking: "The Road to Paris...", by Daniel Lyons and Stephen Pan (1967); Khrushchev: The Killer in the Kremlin, by Eugene Lyons (1957); Communism in our Churches, by J. B. Matthews (1958); A Handbook for Action Against Communism, by J. B. Matthews (1954); Primer on Communism (1951); Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (1950) [online at http://www.authentichistory.­com/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/Red_Channels/]; False Witness, by Harvey Matusow (1955); Fabianism in the Political Life of Britain 1919-1931, by Margaret Patricia M. McCarran (1952); America's Retreat from Victory: The Story of George Catlett Marshall, by Joseph R. McCarthy (undated); McCarthyism: The Fight for America, by Joseph McCarthy (1952); To Communism...Via Majority Vote, by Ben Moreell (undated); Who Will Volunteer?, by Lyle H. Munson (1961); The Cruel and Unusual Punishment of Henry Winston, by Mike Newberry (undated); The Fascist Revival..the Inside Story of the John Birch Society..Who is in it? Who is Behind it? Who Directs and Finances it?, by Mike Newberry (1961); Goldwater-ism, by Mike Newberry (undated); Vietnam Crisis, by Stephen Pan and Daniel Lyons (1966); Communism and Race in America, by Herbert A Philbrick and James D. Bales (1965); Communism and Your Child, by Herbert Romerstein (1962); A Choice Not an Echo, by Phyllis Schlafly (1964); The Communist Interpretation of Peace, by Fred Schwarz (undated); Communism and Religion, by Fulton J. Sheen (undated); Communism Answers Questions of a Communist, by Fulton J. Sheen (undated); Communism is Un-American, by Francis Spellman (undated); Anti-Semitism Exposed! Plotting America's Pogroms, by John L. Spivak (1934); and The China Story, by Freda Utley (1951).

      Websites with information:

      http://library.brown.edu/riamco/search.php?keywords1=US-RPPC&field1=institution_id&­operand1=PHRASE