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

Websites with information:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/brochure-collectie-bela-althans-leaflet-collection-bela-althans/oclc/85178084

http://184.168.105.185/archivegrid/collection/data/85178084

[0060] The Papers of Frank Altschul, 1884-1986 (bulk 1925-1980), MS#0022

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, 6th Floor East Butler Library, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027

Description: Personal papers of Frank Altschul (1887-1981), philanthropist, bibliophile, and authority in international affairs. The papers consistent correspondence, manuscripts, documents, memoranda, reports, printed material and photographs, and contain no business or financial records. The major series of the collection are: cataloged correspondence, general correspondence, Charles and Camilla Altschul files (his parents), writings of Frank Altschul and others, subject files, political correspondence, organizations and printed materials. Series I: Correspondence, 1884-1986, contains files on Warren Austin, Styles Bridges, William F. Buckley, James Buckley, Harry F. Byrd, René and Josée Chambrun, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hamilton Fish, Ralph Flanders, Joseph Grew, Alger Hiss, Hamilton Holt, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, E.F. Hutton, Vivien Kellems, Alf Landon, David Lawrence, Henry C. Lodge, Jay Lovestone, Clare Boothe Luce, Henry R. Luce, Raymond C. Moley, Richard Nixon, Ogden Rogers Reid, Leverett Saltonstall, Robert Taft, Dorothy Thompson, James Warburg, and Wendell Willkie. Series IV: Subject and Political Files, 1919-1986. Subseries IV.1: Subject Files, 1919-1986, contains files on General John Frederick Charles Fuller, Jews and Judaism. Anti-Semitic Literature (c.1933-1942), and Jews and Judaism. Anti-Semitic Literature Sidney Hillman Campaign, 1944. Subseries IV.2: Political, 1932-1978, contains correspondence with John W. Bricker, H. Styles Bridges, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, Joseph McCarthy, Sterling Morton, Robert A. Taft, and Wendell L. Willkie. Series V: Printed Materials, 1909-1984, contains files on Einar Åberg, America First, Inc., American Friends of Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (A.B.N.), American Mercury, American Nazi Party, Bricker Amendment, Frank L. Britton, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Educational Association, Christian Nationalist Crusade, Cinema Educational Guild, Constitutional Educational League, Elizabeth Dilling, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Foreign Policy Association, Freedom House, Freedom School, Herald of Freedom, Herbert C. Holdridge, Human Events, Jewish Defense League, John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan—Texas, McCarran Immigration Act, National Committee for a Free Europe, National Economic Council, National Renaissance Party, National States Rights Party, Neo-Nazis—Great Britain, Neo-Nazis—Iceland, Neo-Nazis—Mexico, Richard Nixon, Non Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, William Dudley Pelley, Pioneer News Service, Social Justice, U.S. Nationalist Party, James P. Warburg, White Sentinel, Robert H. Williams, Wendell Willkie, Gerald B. Winrod, and Women's Voice. Press Clipping Collection includes clippings on Barry Goldwater--William Miller, Robert A. Taft, and Un-American Activities (4 vols.). Series VIII: Organizations, 1908-1980, contains files on William F. Buckley, Jr., "God and Man at Yale," Correspondence and Book, 1951; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Fight For Freedom; Foreign Policy Association; Freedom House; National Committee 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