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

[former location was the Arizona Historical Foundation, which closed on June 8, 2012]

      Description: Dean Burch (1927-1991) was an American lawyer and lobbyist. This collection focuses on two distinct periods in Burch's career: his chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (1964-1965) during the 1964 presidential campaign and its immediate aftermath, and his chairmanship of the U. S. Federal Communications Commission (1969-1973). Among the correspondents are William Buckley Jr., Charles Colson, Senator Barry Goldwater, and Senator Herman Talmadge. Files on the John Birch Society, Senator Knowland, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Ripon Society.

      Finding aids:

      http://www.ahfweb.org/download/Burch_MSS_142.pdf

      http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/burch.xml&doc.view=print;chunk.id=0

      [0424a] Quentin Burdick Papers, 1958-1992, OGLMC 204

      Location: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

      Description: Quentin Burdick (1908-1992) served in the United States House of Representatives, 1958-1960, and the United States Senate, 1960-1992. Series II: Senate, 1960-1968. Sub-Series F: Subject Files. (1.) 1961-1962, contains files on Civil Rights, House Un-American Activities Committee, Connally Amendment, Communism, Human Events, and Socialized Medicine. (2.) 1963-1964, contains files on Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, Segregation, and Smoot Report. (3.) 1965-1966, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, McCarran Immigration Act, Smoot Report, and Taft-Hartley Act. (4.) 1966-1967, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, Smoot Report, and Taft-Hartley. (5.) 1968, contains files on American Legion, Civil Rights, Communism, Human Events, and Smoot Report.

      Websites with information:

      https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/collections&char=B

      Finding aids:

      https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=697

      http://library.und.edu/_files/docs/finding-aids/oglmc-0204.pdf

      [0425] Usher L. Burdick Papers, 1897-1959, OGLMC0021

      Location: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

      Description: The Usher L. Burdick Papers include correspondence, scrapbooks, speeches and addresses, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, text of bills and other government documents. Subjects include anti-UN correspondence and printed material; Brainwashing; Brannan Plan; Bricker Amendment; Communism; Garet Garrett; Great Conspiracy Speech, 1954 [Burdick, "The Great Conspiracy to Destroy the United States," The Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 83d Congress, Second Session, Wednesday, April 28, 1954, online at https://web.archive.org/web/20040107093315/http://www.­libertygunrights.com/UsherBurdickSpeech.html]; Hilaire du Berrier; Douglas MacArthur; Joseph McCarthy; McCarthyism; Townsend Plan; UNESCO; and world government. Correspondents include West Wuichet.

      Reference:

      Bernard Lemelin, "Congressman Usher Burdick Of North Dakota and The 'Ungodly Menace': Anti-United Nations Rhetoric, 1950-1958," Great Plains Quarterly, 22 (Summer 2002): 163-81, http://digitalcommons.­unl.edu/cg

      i/viewcontent.cgi?article=3323&context=greatplainsquarterly.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.und.edu/special-collections/orin-g-libby/alphabetical.php

      https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/classifications&id=1

      https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/collections&char=B

      Finding aids:

      http://webapp.und.edu/dept/library/Collections/og21.html

      https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=668&q=&rootcontentid=100371

      [0426] Bureau of Applied Social Research Records, 1944-1976, MS#0166

      Location: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries, 6th Fl. East, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027

      Description: The Bureau of Applied Social Research, headed by sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, was established in 1944 and helped make Columbia a pioneering institution in the social sciences. Through empirical research, ideas regarding the functioning of individuals and groups were developed and tested. The records consist of project materials, including reports, monographs, books, articles, Masters essays, Doctoral dissertations, foreign publications, and audio-visual materials. Series I: Project Index, and Series III: Reports, contain Conrad Arensberg & [Charles Y.] Glock Extremist Organizations in Contemporary America, 1954) [This is a proposal for a program of research to evaluate the degree to which extremist groups or persons on the "right" threaten the traditional personal liberties of American life. Several working papers which discuss such topics as the historical background of reactionary politics, the "pseudo-conservative revolt," the activities of the radical right as a problem for American democracy, the evidence on clusters, syndromes and patterns in social attitudes, and anti-democratic attitudes in America as based on a public opinion poll are also contained in the project file.] Series VI: Articles, contains a copy of Seymour M. Lipset, "The Radical Right: A Problem for American Democracy," British Journal of Sociology, vol. 6, no. 2 (June 1955), pp. 176-209 [online at https://web.archi

      ve.org/web/20150819021253/http://www.planethan.com/drupal/sites/default/files/radicalright.pdf].

      Websites with information:

      http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/index/nnc-rb/

      Finding aid:

      http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_5012632/

      [0427] Edmund Burke Collection

      Location: Rare Books & Special Collections, 102 Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556

      Description: Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was an Irish-born author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons as a member of the Whig Party. This is a collection of early editions of Burke.

      Finding aid:

      http://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/collections/irish_studies/burke.shtml

      [0427a] Edmund Burke letters, 1762-1797, MS Hyde 67

      Location: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

      Description: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a Whig political philosopher. Among his many publications were A Vindication of Natural Society (1756), On Moving his Resolutions for Conciliation with the American Colonies (1774), and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). He served in the Parliament from 1765 to 1794, and was an early member of the Literary Club in London, with Samuel Johnson. The collection consists of seventeen letters from Burke to a variety of correspondents.

      Websites with information:

      http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

      Finding aid:

      http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00248

      [0428] Edmund Burke Papers, MS-016

      Location: Special Collections, Musselman Library, Fourth Floor. Gettysburg College, 300 North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325

      Description: Edmund Burke (1729?-1797) was a conservative political philosopher, theorist, statesman, Whig politician, and orator. The collection consists of 9 letters written to Burke, two undated notes in Burke's hand, and other documents.

      Websites with information:

      https://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/index.dot

      Finding aids:

      http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/manuscripts/collections/ms016.dot