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

Oscar Cohen Papers, 1955-1985, Manuscript Collection No. 294

      Location: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220

      Description: Oscar Cohen (1908-1985) was National Program Director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), 1954-1975. The papers contain materials pertaining to Cohen's activities as National Program Director and his research into the area of Jewish-Christian relations. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, polls, bibliographies, proposals, newsclippings and miscellaneous items. Series B. Anti-Semitism. Sub-Series 1. General, contains files on Anti-Semitism, "Anti-Semitism in America, 1654-1930" (report, 1969), "Anti-Semitism in the U.S." (report, 1981), Anti-Zionism, Catholic anti-Semitism, Charles E. Coughlin, Harold Covington, Dreyfus Case, Employment Discrimination, Extremism, Henry Ford, Leo M. Frank Case, German-American Bund, Ulysses S. Grant (General Order No. 11 (1862)), History of American anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Immigration Restriction, Ku Klux Klan, Charles A. Lindbergh, Tom Metzger, Nazi Party, U.S.A., Philadelphia, Pa. Nazi Rally 1979, Protestant anti-Semitism, race relations in armed forces, Red Scare Era, and Swastika Epidemic. Series D. Contemporary Social Issues, contains files on Arthur R. Butz, John Birch Society, and J.B. Stoner.

      Websites with information:

      http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/findingAids.php

      Finding aids:

      http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0294/

      http://collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0294/ms0294.html

      [0605] COINTELPRO: The Counterintelligence Program of the FBI (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1978) [microfilm]

      Description: The FBI Counterintelligence Program file contains details of the bureau's attempts to "expose, disrupt, and neutralize" groups that J. Edgar Hoover perceived as threatening to national security. The file, spanning COINTELPRO's existence from 1956 to 1971, contains Federal Bureau of Investigation memoranda and directives documenting the FBI's investigation of, infiltration of and other activities relative to such groups as the Communist Party of the USA, Black Nationalist Hate Groups, White Hate Groups (Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, the National States Rights Party), the Socialist Workers Party, and Cuban groups supporting Fidel Castro.

      Websites with information:

      https://web.archive.org/web/20131005055240/http://www.chipublib.org/branch/details/library/woodson-regional/p/HarshMicro//

      http://libguides.princeton.edu/aas

      [0606] Bainbridge Colby Papers, 1863-1950 (bulk 1912-1950), MSS16360

      Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

      Description: Colby (1869-1950), a lawyer, assisted in organizing the Progressive Party and supported the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. He was Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state in 1920-21. The papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, speeches, notebooks, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Although he was an early supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colby eventually became a critic of the New Deal, formed the anti-Roosevelt American Liberty League, and supported the Republican Party candidate Alfred M. Landon in the 1936 presidential election. Scrapbooks include material on these topics. Also contains correspondence with John Spargo.

      Websites with information:

      http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/c

      http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html

      Finding aids:

      http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011091

      http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011091.3

      [0607] The Cold War and Internal Security Collection

      Location: Joyner Library, East Carolina University, East Fifth Street, Greenville, NC 27858-4353

      Description: The Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection includes over 1,000 volumes of congressional hearings, committee prints and committee reports from the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), its successor the House Committee on Internal Security (HCIS), the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (SPSI), and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS), covering the years 1934-1976. The contents of the collection cover congressional investigations of organizations deemed "subversive" or "un-American", primarily the Communist Party USA and its allies. Other subjects of investigation include the New Left, the Ku Klux Klan (including the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina), the Black Panthers, 1930s and 40s pro-Nazi organizations, the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans, Hiss v. Chambers, the Army-McCarthy hearings, the German-American Bund, and the Silver Legion of America.

      References:

      "The Cold War and Internal Security (CWIS) Collection," Joyner Library's eNews (Mar. 2013), p. 4, http://media.lib.ecu.edu/development/eNewsletter/jl_enews_marchfinal2013.pdf; "Cold War & Internal Security (CWIS) Collection," http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/; William Joseph Thomas, "Lagniappe: Joyner Library's Cold War and Internal Security Collection," North Carolina Libraries, Volume 71, No 1 (Spring/Summer 2013), pp. 48-50, http://www.ncl.ecu.edu/index.php/NCL/article/view/394/482, http://www.ncl.ecu.edu/index.php/NCL/article/viewFile/394/482.

      Websites with information:

      http://libguides.ecu.edu/cwis

      Blog:

      http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/cwis/

      [0607a] Cold War Collection, 1938-

      Location: Special Collections & Archives, University Library, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom

      Description: More than 500 texts on the culture of the Cold War, including spy fiction, novels describing nuclear war, historical studies of the CIA, espionage and intelligence agencies - European and American, memoirs, political tracts, and military studies of topics like war games. Titles include Inside the Company: CIA diary, by Philip Agee (1975); The iron curtain over America, by John Beaty (1951); The American inquisition, 1945-1960: a profile of the "McCarthy era," by Cedric Belfrage (1989); Spytime: the undoing of James Jesus Angleton: a novel, by William F. Buckley, Jr. (2000); The coming defeat of communism, by James Burnham (1950); The struggle for the world, by James Burnham (1947); Modern arms and free men: a discussion of the role of science in preserving democracy, by Vannevar Bush (1949); McCarthy, by Roy Cohn (1968); Psychic dictatorship in the U.S.A., by Alex Constantine (1995); Virtual government: CIA mind control operations in America, by Alex Constantine (1997); The facts about Nixon: an unauthorized biography, by William Costello (1960); Destroying the village: Eisenhower and thermonuclear war, by Campbell Craig (1998); Early Reagan: the rise of an American hero, by Anne Edwards (1988); The great challenge, by Louis Fischer (1947); The conscience of a Conservative, by Barry Goldwater (1960); In the court of public opinion, by Alger Hiss (1957); Recollections of a life, by Alger Hiss (1988); Masters of deceit: the story of communism in America and how to fight it, by J. Edgar Hoover (1959); Brain-washing in Red China: the calculated destruction of men's minds, by Edward Hunter (1951); Brainwashing: the story of men who defied it, by Edward Hunter (1957); The story of Mary Liu, by Edward Hunter (1957); The strange case of Alger Hiss, by the Earl Jowitt (1953); The Matusow affair: memoir of a national scandal, by Albert E. Kahn; introduction by Angus Cameron (1987); Mind control, Oswald & JFK: were we controlled?, by Lincoln Lawrence & Kenn Thomas (1997); The mind of an assassin, by Isaac Don Levine (1959); Joseph R. McCarthy, edited by Allen J. Matusow (1970); False witness, by Harvey Matusow (1955); A version of Major William E. Mayer's (1956 address 'Brain-washing: the ultimate weapon' [spoken record]); McCarthy: a documented record (1954); The real war, by Richard Nixon (1981); The Rosenberg file: a search for the truth, by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton (1983); With enough shovels: Reagan, Bush and nuclear war, by Robert Scheer; with the assistance of Narda Zacchino and Constance Matthiessen (1982); None dare call it treason, by John A. Stormer (1964); Official and confidential: the secret life of J. Edgar Hoover, by Anthony Summers (1993, 2011); Perjury: the Hiss-Chambers case, by Allen Weinstein (1978); The politician, by Robert