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

Websites with information:

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

Finding aids:

http://files.library.northwestern.edu/spec/coughlin.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20100607153732/http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/pdf/coughlin.pdf

[0693] Charles E. Coughlin Collection

Location: Royal Oak Public Library, 222 E. Eleven Mile, Royal Oak, MI 48067

Description: Includes clippings on Father Charles E. Coughlin (1891-1979) from an unknown local newspaper (April 1933) and from such papers as the Daily Tribune (1937-1942) and the Detroit News (1969).

Reference:

Victoria Marie Harwood, "Reexamining a National Disaster: The Local Charles E. Coughlin and the Community's Response" (M.A., Bowling Green State University, 2016), https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bg

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[0694] Charles E. Coughlin Collection, 1909-1979, 2016.3129 (NMAH Acc.)

Location: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Suite 1100, MRC 601, Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

Description: Father Charles E. Coughlin (1891-1979) was a controversial Catholic priest, based in Royal Oak, Michigan, who broadcast a weekly radio show from 1926-1940, in which he criticized immigrants, bankers, Communists, Jews, and other groups. He also published a weekly paper called "Social Justice", starting in 1936. He was eventually forced off the airwaves and spent the rest of his life presiding over his parish in Michigan, though he continued to publish. The collection contains 136 books, booklets, published sermons, published lectures, pamphlets, and other printed materials. Of these, 57 were written by Coughlin. The rest relate to him directly or have chapters or passages relating to him. Additionally, there are periodicals, including newspaper and magazine articles, and a full set of Coughlin's weekly publication, "Social Justice", 1936-1942; other periodicals such as William Dudley Pelley's weekly "Liberation Journal", 1938-1948; a few copies of Henry Ford's "Dearborn Independent"; original photographs, including images of Coughlin and of his church; letters; copies of the FBI's files on Coughlin; and (non-original) recordings of his broadcasts.

Finding aid:

http://collections.si.edu/search/tag/tagDoc.htm?recordID=siris_arc_381346

[0695] Charles Coughlin Collection, 1930-1940, CGH

Location: University of Notre Dame Archives, 607 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, IN 46556

Description: Charles E. Coughlin (1891-1979), a Roman Catholic Priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit, became famous as a radio preacher. 62 booklets containing radio sermons and lectures. Also includes The Challenge of the Pact and Social Justice: What of the Future? by Reverend Edward Lodge Curran (1939), Father Coughlin - His "Facts" and Arguments (United Jewish Council, 1939), and An Answer to Father Coughlin's Critics (1940).

Websites with information:

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/

Finding aids:

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/html/CGH.htm

http://archives.nd.edu/findaids/ead/xml/cgh.xml

[0696] Father Charles E. Coughlin Collection, 1932-1936, C43

Location: Special & Digital Collections, University of South Florida Tampa Library, 4202 East Fowler Ave., LIB122, Tampa, Florida 33620

Description: This collection primarily contains published monographs and pamphlets of sermons delivered by Father Coughlin between 1932 and 1936. Writings by Coughlin on social and economic justice are also included, in addition to printed fundraising correspondence, application and pledge forms for the National Union for Social Justice, and postcards featuring the Shrine of the Little Flower. Publications include The New Deal and the New Men, a lecture by Charles Coughlin from March 12, 1933, and The Secret is Out, a sermon by Coughlin from February 14, 1932.

Websites with information:

http://digital.lib.usf.edu/eads/all/table/4

Finding aid:

http://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0031921

[0696a] Father Charles Coughlin FBI Files, 1936-1974 (bulk 1942-1944), UP001842

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

Description: Sympathy for the fascist politics of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini resulted in security investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). His papers consist of photocopies, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, of communications produced by the FBI during these investigations.

Websites with information:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/guides.html

http://reuther.wayne.edu/abstracts?page=3

http://reuther.wayne.edu/pdf/fall10.pdf

Finding aids:

http://reuther.wayne.edu/node/6557

http://reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001842.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20120902060222/https://www.reuther.wayne.edu/files/UP001842.pdf

[0696b] Charles Edward Coughlin fonds, 1911-1979

Location: University of St Michael's College Archives, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1J4, Canada

Description: Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), alumnus of St. Michael's College (1911) was ordained a priest of the Congregation of St. Basil and later transferred to the Archdiocese of Detroit. This fonds contains memorabilia, photos, and audio visual (broadcast discourse April 4, 1937).

Websites with information:

http://www.archeion.ca/charles-edward-coughlin-fonds

[0696c] Charles E. Coughlin Sermons and Sunday Evening Radio Addresses, 1930-1940, DA 2; C854; S486; Box

Location: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, 1150 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113

Description: Father Charles E. Coughlin was Roman Catholic priest, renowned as founder and pastor of the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. Father Coughlin gained a wide following for his Sunday afternoon radio addresses on political and economic subjects. Coughlin was a vocal opponent of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. The collection consists of 112 published sermons and Sunday evening radio addresses given by Father Coughlin in the period 1930-1940.

Websites with information:

http://bentley.umich.edu/EAD/ead_cd.htm

Finding aids:

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-02156?rgn=main;view=text

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;id=navbarbrowselink;cginame=findaid-idx;cc=bhlead;view=reslist;subview=standard;didno=umich-bhl-02156

[0697] E. Merton Coulter pamphlet collection, 1830s-1980s, ms2334

Location: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Russell Special Collections Building, University of Georgia, 300 S. Hull Street, Athens, GA 30602

Description: Ellis Merton Coulter (1890-1981) began teaching at the University of Georgia in 1919. He became head of the history department in 1941 and retired as professor emeritus in 1958. Contains examples of Populist literature, 1873-1910; Horace Greeley speeches on Virginia and the KKK, 1872; campaign bulletins, brochures, articles and speeches by and about Herbert Hoover, 1925-1936; Georgia political ephemera, circa 1915-1938, including Eugene Talmadge; and pamphlets by Garet Garrett, Peter Viereck, and James P. Warburg. Also contains copies of Tom P. Brady, "A Review of Black Monday," Association of Citizen's Councils of Mississippi, Winona, Miss., 1954 [online at http://digilib.usm.edu/­cdm/ref/collection/­manu/id/1778]; Edith Essig, "Ghosts of A Dead Era Live Again" and "Long Shadows on The New Year," Keeping The Record Straight, Glendale, Ariz., January and February 1970; and W.H. Harvey, Financial School, Coin Pub. Co., Chicago, Ill., Vol. 1, No.3, June, 1894.

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