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

for a Free Europe: Crusade for Freedom; National Committee for a Free Europe--Radio Free Europe: Crusade for Freedom, National Council for Civic Responsibility, Merwin K. Hart, Paul Körbel, Voice of America; National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government; National Jeffersonian Democrats Declaration, 1960; and Rand Corporation.

      Websites with information:

      http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4078512/

      Finding aids:

      http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_4078512

      http://library.columbia.edu/locations/rbml/units/lehman/guides/altschul.html

      [0060a] Frank Altschul papers, 1924-1941, MS 909

      Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520

      Description: Frank Altschul (1887-1981) was an authority on public finance and chairman of the General American Investors Co. Inc. The papers consist of a memorandum on the French foreign exchange situation (1924), letters from Altschul to Bernhard Knollenberg and Donald G. Wing, and the typescript of Altschul's book Let No Wave Engulf Us (1941).

      Finding aids:

      http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0909

      http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/mssa:ms.0909/PDF

      [0060b] Peter H. Amann Papers, 1929-1980 (bulk 1930-1940), UP001229

      Location: Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University, 5401 Cass Ave., Detroit, MI 48202

      Description: Peter H. Amann (1927-2012) was a professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The papers reflect Amann's research on the Black Legion, a vigilante organization which operated principally in Michigan and Ohio from 1925 through 1936. Series I, Investigatory Reports, 1923-1980, contains correspondence, and reports of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies which conducted inquiries into the activities of the Black Legion in the mid-western United States. Series II, Black Legion Source Material, 1936-1980, contains clippings, correspondence, local histories, undergraduate papers, and reports generated by Amann's research on the Black Legion. Series III, Oral History Interviews, 1976-1979, contains transcripts of interviews conducted by Amann and his students. Correspondents include Samuel Dickstein, J. Edgar Hoover, and John Lesinski. Topics include American Legion; American League against War and Fascism; Black Legion; Constitutional Protective League; Charles E. Coughlin; Crusaders; Virgil [Bert] Effinger; Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; Ku Klux Klan; Mantle Club; National Federation for Constitutional Liberties; Night Riders; Our Sunday Visitor; Sentinels of the Republic; William Jacob "Doc" Shepard, M. D.; Silver Shirts; Maurice Sugar; and Vigilantes.

      Reference:

      Peter H. Amann, "Vigilante Fascism: The Black Legion as an American Hybrid," Comparative Studies in Society and History 25.3 (July 1983): 490-524.

      Websites with information:

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/abstracts?page=1

      http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/2243

      Finding aid:

      https://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001229.pdf

      [0060c] Amendment Two Collection, 1992-1993, MSS #1550

      Location: Stephen H. Hart Research Center, History Colorado, 1200 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80203

      Description: Collection consists of approximately 800 letters written to the Denver newspaper the Rocky Mountain News reflecting the debate in Colorado over the so-called "Amendment Two," a controversial amendment to the Constitution of the State of Colorado that would have prevented all cities, counties, or towns from taking any legislation, executive, or judicial action to recognize gay or lesbian citizens as a protected class. In Romer v. Evans, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995, the Court ruled that the proposed amendment was unconstitutional.

      Websites with information:

      http://c70003.eos-intl.net/C70003/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=2863783

      http://www.historycolorado.org/sites/default/files/files/Researchers/GLBTResourceGuide.pdf

      [0060d] America First Committee Collection

      Location: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

      Description: America First Committee, founded in September 1940, was a powerful isolationist group in America before America's entry into World War II.

      Websites with information:

      https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/manuscriptcollections/mss_collections.html

      [0061] America First Committee records, 1940-1942, Coll. 42001

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

      Description: Correspondence, minutes, reports, studies, financial records, press releases, speeches, newsletters, campaign literature, clippings, photographs, and other audiovisual material, relating to the issue of American neutrality in World War II. Organization Department Files contain files on Charles A. Lindbergh, America First Club, Neutrality vote, Pettengill's file to Congressmen, Chapter reactions to C. A. Lindbergh's Des Moines speech (Sept. 11, 1941), and Special campaign - Neutrality Act fight. Publicity and Research Files contain files on Stephen A. Day, Fight for Freedom Committee, Hamilton Fish, John T. Flynn, Lord Halifax, Herbert Hoover, Keep America Out of War Congress, Alfred M. Landon, Lend-Lease Bill, Charles A. Lindbergh, Alice Longworth, Henry R. Luce, Hanford MacNider, Mothers' Groups, Karl E. Mundt, Neutrality, No Foreign War Committee, Senator Nye, George N. Peek, General Robert Wood, Porter Sargent, Robert A. Taft, American Economic Foundation, Citizens No Foreign War Coalition, Dorothy Thompson, Honorable George Holden Tinkham, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Wendell L. Willkie, and Uncensored. Speakers Bureau Files contain files on Harry Elmer Barnes, Congressman Usher L. Burdick, Senator Capper, Gertrude Coogan, Congressman Stephen A. Day, Hamilton Fish, Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, Honorable Rush D. Holt, Honorable Ben F. Jensen, Senator William Langer, Charles A. Lindbergh, Senator Pat McCarran, Colonel MacNider, Dean Clarence Manion (Notre Dame University), Congressman Karl Mundt, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, Senator Gerald P. Nye, Senator Lee O'Daniel, George N. Peek, Samuel B. Pettengill, Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Senator Robert A. Taft, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Miscellaneous Office Files contain files on A.F.C. Bulletins, Neutrality Law, Lend-Lease Bill, Tribute to General Wood, Colonel Lindbergh's Des Moines speech, R.E. Wood-correspondence, Alfred M. Landon-correspondence, Charles Lindbergh-clippings, and A.F.C. Newsletters (Impeachment of Roosevelt, Against Lend-Lease, Political backing for isolationists, Neutrality debate in Senate, Connection with Nazis). Sound Recordings contain recordings of a Charles Lindbergh speech 1941 April 23 (This speech was delivered at Manhattan Center and broadcast by WMCA in New York); an interview with Brigadier General Robert E. Wood 1941 July 25; a Senator Burton K. Wheeler speech undated; and a Robert E. Wood speech: Our Foreign Policy, 1940 October 26. Correspondents include William Benton, L. M. Birkhead, Lawrence Dennis, J. T. Flynn, Frederick Kister, Sterling Morton, G. N. Peek, S. B. Pettengill, Edward Rickenbacker, E. J. Smythe, Jacob Thorkelson, Mrs. E. S. Welch, B. K. Wheeler, and General Robert E. Wood. Mimeographed texts of addresses by Hamilton Fish, J. T. Flynn, C. A. Lindbergh, G. P. Nye, B. K. Wheeler, and R. E. Wood.

      References:

      Wayne S. Cole, "The America First Committee," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 44, No. 4 (Winter 1951), pp. 305-322, http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-1951winter/ishs-1951winter-305.pdf; Wayne S. Cole, America First: The Battle Against Intervention 1940-1941 (Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1953), http://archive.org/stream/americafirsttheb000771mbp/americafirsttheb­000771mbp_djvu.txt.

      Finding aids:

      http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/reg_345.pdf

      http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9s20075g/entire_text/

      Finding aids to photographs (42001 - 8.01/03):

      Contains 18 photographs