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

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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http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7q2nb2gr/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7q2nb2gr/entire_text/

[0631] Committee of One Million sound recordings, Coll. XX619 [sound recordings]

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

Description: Speeches relating to the proposed admission of communist China to the United Nations. 3 phonorecords.

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt158031h1/entire_text/

http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/XX619.pdf

[0632] Committee on the Present Danger records, 1967-1992, Coll. 92073

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

Description: The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) is a neoconservative American foreign policy interest group. The records consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, studies, memoranda, press releases, financial records, clippings, and other printed matter, relating to American politics and foreign policy, Soviet-American relations, and American and Soviet defenses and military policy. Files on American Conservative Defense Alliance (ACDA), Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Conservative Caucus, Conservative Network, Robert Dole, Barry Goldwater, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Jesse Helms, Iran-Contra affair, Representative Jack Kemp, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Clare Boothe Luce, Richard Nixon, Norman Podhoretz, Radio America, Radio Liberty, Ronald Reagan, General M. B. Ridgway, Richard Scaife, and John Tower.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6w1038fh/entire_text/

[0633] Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1940-1942, MS67

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, McCormick Library, Northwestern University Library, 1970 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-2300

Description: The Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies was formed in 1940 to encourage American interest in aiding Great Britain, and ultimately in entering the war in Europe and defeating the Axis powers. Also included are publications issued by the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, an anti-New Deal organization, including S.B. Pettengill, The Case against a third term for any president, n.d. Includes a copy of Ernest Lundeen, Six men and war: speech of Hon. Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota in the Senate of the United States, July 11, 1940.

Websites with information:

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/evanston-campus/special-collections/manuscripts-and-archives

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/special-collections/our-manuscript-archives.html

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-spec-archon-1526

https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/7/resources/553

[0634] Committee to Defend America By Aiding the Allies Records, 1940-1942, MC011

Location: Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Public Policy Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, 65 Olden Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Description: The Records of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) document the Committee to Defend America from its inception in May 1940 to its official dissolution in October 1942. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, CDAAA acknowledged that its work had come to an end, and in January, 1942, CDAAA merged with the Council for Democracy to form Citizens for Victory: To Win the War, To Win the Peace. The Committee to Defend America was a propaganda organization that worked to persuade the American public that the United States should supply the Allies with as much material and financial aid as possible in order to keep the United States out of the war. During its year and a half tenure the Committee successfully garnered support from across the country and from other parts of the world. Consists of files relating to the political, educational, and fund-raising activities of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Included are 1) correspondence (such as that of Roger S. Greene, associate director of the Committee), daily reports, and subject files of the Committee's administrative management division at its national headquarters office in New York City; 2) executive committee correspondence and minutes; 3) state and local chapters material—correspondence, field representatives files, chapter records; 4) records of college, labor, and women's divisions; 5) fund-raising files from the Committee's NYC headquarters; and 6) published materials put out by the Committee, such as cartoons, Christmas cards, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, radio transcripts, and speeches. Publications include flyers, pamphlets, cartoons, newsletters, newspaper advertisements and clippings, postcards, press releases, a syndicated column called "It Makes Sense" (July-December 1941), radio transcripts, speeches, petitions, and policy statements. The Subject Files (1940 May-1941 December) document the many organizations with which the Committee was sympathetic, as well as the many isolationist organizations to which the Committee was opposed. Subject Files on Amerasia, America First Committee, American Legion, Anti-Semitism – Congress: Rankin (Miss.) and Edelstein, 194[1] Jun 7, Lend-Lease Bill H.R. 1776, Neutrality Act, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler.

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC011

http://findingaids.princeton.edu/collections/MC011.pdf

http://archive.is/vkhJP#selection-435.0-435.712

Finding aids to microfilm edition (Woodbridge, CT, Primary Source Microfilm, An imprint of Thomson Gale, 2005):

http://microformguides.gale.com/Download.asp?CollDocid=9053000&page=1

http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/9053000C.pdf

[0635] Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment Additional records, 1976-1982, 84-M145; T-163

Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: This collection contains the reports liquidating the Committee to Ratify the Massachusetts ERA, financial (including fund-raising) statements, letters and endorsements from supporters, press releases, legislative surveys, and card files of project contacts, volunteers and supporters.. Contains audiocassettes of CLUM [Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts] meeting, 5/1/1976, Springfield: Barney Frank vs. Margaret Mahoney, and WHDH: Phyllis Schlafly on David B[Brudnoy?] Show, 6/25/1976.

Websites with information:

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