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

Watergate scandal, his conversion to Christian faith that caused him to plead guilty to one of the charges against him, his imprisonment, and his life after incarceration as a leading Evangelical writer and speaker and as the founder of the country's leading prison ministries. Series: I. Professional and Ministry Files, contains correspondence with Richard Nixon, Patrick Buchanan, Alexander Haig, and Ronald Reagan. Series: II. Watergate Files, contains a file on Wallace Assassination Attempt. Series: III. Manuscript Files, contains files on his book Kingdoms in Conflict (with Ellen Santilli Vaughn), 1987, with comments by Richard John Neuhaus. Series: IV. Ellen Santilli Vaughn Files, contains files on Abortion Clinic Bombings, Pat Robertson's presidential campaign, and Paul Harvey Material.

      Websites with information:

      http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/g2.htm

      Finding aid:

      http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/275.htm

      [0628a] Braxton Bragg Comer Papers, 1905-1940, Collection Number: 00168

      Location: Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, 4th Floor, Wilson Library CB# 3926, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890

      Description: Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1927) was governor of Alabama, 1908-1911, and U.S. senator, 1920. Personal, plantation and other business, and political papers of Comer. Series 1. Correspondence and Other Papers, 1907-1940 and undated, contains correspondence on subjects including anti-Catholicism, anti-evolution, anti-Semitic texts that he ordered from the Dearborn Publishing Company (including "The International Jew" and "Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States"), anti-union, the Catholic question, integration (to which he was adamantly opposed), the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama politics in the 1920s, opposition to African-Americans in the U.S. Army, Prohibition, race relations, the Tom Watson trial [a charge brought against Watson for sending "obscenity" by mail, based on an editorial attack on the Catholic church in which he reprinted Latin questions that a priest might ask his female parishioners in confession], and women's suffrage.

      Websites with information:

      http://library.unc.edu/wilson/shc/findingaids/browse-finding-aids/

      Finding aid:

      http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00168/

      [0629] Commentary Magazine Archive, 1942-2004 (1957-1995)

      Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

      Description: The Commentary Magazine Archive comprises editorial correspondence, administrative files, Contentions newsletter issues, newspaper clippings of Norman Podhoretz's New York Post columns, and a small portion of the proofs, galleys, and original manuscripts submitted for publication. Correspondents include William J. Bennett, Robert H. Bork, Patrick J. Buchanan, William F. Buckley, James Burnham, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, First Things, Milton Friedman, Ernest van den Haag, Jesse Helms, Will Herberg, Heritage Foundation, Richard Hofstadter, Sidney Hook, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Seymour Martin Lipset, Charles A. Murray, George H. Nash, National Right To Life News, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Richard John Neuhaus, Robert A. Nisbet, Grover Glenn Norquist, Norman Podhoretz, Ronald Reagan, Henry F. Regnery, Rockford Institute, Thomas Sowell, Henry J. Taylor, Ralph de Toledano, Stephen J. Tonsor, Peter Viereck, and George F. Will.

      Reference:

      A Guide to the Collections: Jewish Studies Resources at the University of Texas at Austin (Austin: Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, n.d.), https://liberalarts.­utexas.edu/scjs/_files/pdf/researchguide.pdf.

      Websites with information:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/curatorial.cfm

      Finding aids:

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/pdf/00672.pdf

      http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00672

      [0629a] Commissione speciale d'indagine sui problemi del neo-fascismo e dell'eversione contro le istituzioni e la legalità repubblicana, 1974-1980

      Location: Regione Toscana. Consiglio regionale. Archivio, via Cavour, 4, 50129 Firenze (Firenze), Italy

      Description: Meetings and minutes of the Commission; press conferences; questionnaires from the municipalities and the provinces of Tuscany and other materials on socio-economic and political-cultural aspects, with particular reference to the presence of neo-fascist groups and any subversive episodes; material from similar commissions set up in other regional councils (Lazio, Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Calabria, Lombardy, Campania, Marche) and the national conference "Le inchieste delle regioni sul neofascismo" (Reggio Calabria, 15 to 16 December 1974); meetings and minutes of the consultations carried out by the Commission in Tuscany; reports from organizations and individuals; agendas of municipal and provincial councils on subversive and terrorist facts occurring at the national and regional level; studies carried out by the Istituto storico della Resistenza in Toscana, and the final report, comprising a chronology of episodes of subversion occurring in the region, analytical cards for stenciled neo-fascist periodicals that were examined, an outline of active subversive organizations in Tuscany; and reports from the Istituto di sociologia della Facoltà di Magistero di Firenze, including an essay by Antonio Carbone and Armando Testi, "Neo-fascismo in Toscana: ricerca sociologica sulla Valdinievole."

      Websites with information:

      http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=comparc&Chiave=350749

      http://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=prodente&Chiave=53568

      http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-soggetto-produttore?id=52377

      [0629b] Committee for a Free Asia collection, 1951-1953, Coll. XX282

      Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

      Description: The Committee for a Free Asia Inc. (CFA) was established in 1951 "to promote, aid and assist the cause of individual and national freedom in Asia, as opposed to Communist and other totalitarian doctrines." Radio Free Asia (RFA) was officially run by the CFA out of San Francisco between September 1951 and 1953. Programs were broadcast in "three Chinese dialects and in English" and comprised of "principally anti-Communist propaganda, except for news and music." The collection consists of clippings and press releases relating to political, social, and economic conditions in China and Taiwan. Includes clippings from Chinese, Hong Kong and Chinese-language American newspapers, and press releases issued by Radio Free Asia. Collected by the Committee for a Free Asia.

      References:

      Richard H. Cummings, "March 12, 1951: The Original Radio Free Asia Incorporated," March 12, 2013, http://coldwarradios.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-12-1951-original-radio-free-asia.html; Mareike Ohlberg, "The 'Other' Radio Free Asia: 1951 to 1953," May 10, 2015, http://mareikeohlberg.com/the-other-radio-free-asia-1951-to-1953/.

      Finding aid:

      http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt129030s1/entire_text/

      [0630] Committee for the Free World Records, 1980-1991, Coll. 89007

      Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

      Description: The Committee for the Free World, founded in February 1981, was an anti-Communist think tank in the United States. Midge Decter served as Executive Director. Correspondence, conference proceedings, bulletins, press releases, financial records, booklets, phonotapes, and videotapes, relating to American foreign and domestic policy, the moral and intellectual climate in the Western world, relations between the United States and Europe and the Soviet Union, and international Communism and anti-Communist movements. The series Correspondence/Subject Files, 1980-1986, contains files on Committee for the Free World (U.K.), Irving Kristol, Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, Norman Podhoretz, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., George S. Weigel, Jr., and Women and Families for Defence. Copies of Contentions (Bulletin of the Committee for the Free World), 1981-1988.

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