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

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Finding aid:

http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v2210.pdf

[0809] Thomas Dixon Papers, 1892-1959

Location: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Box 90185, 103 Perkins Library, Durham, North Carolina 27708

Description: Thomas Frederick Dixon, II (1864-1946) was a believer in white supremacy and the author of The Clansman (1905), which was to become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). Correspondence, papers, and writings of Thomas Dixon. Correspondence contains material on the Mt. Mitchell Association of Arts and Sciences, apparently having to do with land development, 1927-1928; the publication of Dixon's last novel, The Flaming Sword, 1939-1940; and letters relating to the religious beliefs of Dixon's second wife, Madelyn (Donovan) Dixon. There is a miscellaneous group of financial papers and a number of legal papers concerning copyrights and contracts with companies producing Dixon's plays. Writings include bound holograph drafts of The Sins of the Father and The Sun Virgin, proofs of The One Woman, pasted and bound; typed drafts of Dixon's plays; the first unrevised sketch of Dixon's dramatic adaptation of The Clansman and a scenario for the filmed version of Birth of a Nation.

References:

Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, edited by Richard C. Davis and Linda Angle Miller (1980), http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/­findingaids/guide/ and http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide.pdf; John David Smith, "'My Books Are Hard Reading for a Negro': Tom Dixon and His African American Critics, 1905-1939," Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America, edited by Michele K. Gillespie and Randal L. Hall (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [2006]), p. 77; Alexander J. Beringer, "The Pleasures of Conspiracy: American Literature 1870-1910" (Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 2011), http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/­bitstream/handle/2027.42/86459/beringer_1a.pdf.

Websites with information:

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/guide/

[0809a] Thomas Dixon papers, 1901-1905, Manuscript Collection No. 23

Location: Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870

Description: Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) was a clergyman, lecturer, and novelist. Dixon published his first of twenty-two novels, The Leopard's Spots, in 1902. That novel and two others, The Clansman (1905) and The Traitor (1907), comprised his bestselling trilogy of books defending the South. Dixon wrote the screenplay for the movie The Birth of a Nation (1915), based on The Clansman. His three anti-socialist novels, beginning with The One Woman (1903), sold widely. The collection contains one folder of correspondence (1901-1905), which includes thirteen detailed letters from Thomas Dixon to publishers. One letter to Walter Hines Page (1855-1918) of Doubleday, Page & Company mentions Dixon's work on plot development for The Clansman (February 7, 1904). The collection has one folder of miscellaneous items (1902-1903) and a typescript (381 pp.) of The One Woman with penciled revisions.

Websites with information:

http://guides.main.library.emory.edu/c.php?g=50199&p=324597

Finding aids:

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/dixon23/

http://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/dixon23/printable/

[0810] Lev E. Dobriansky papers, 1959-1982, Coll. 78035

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

Description: Correspondence, messages, pamphlets, programs, proclamations, reports, resolutions, and clippings, relating to American foreign policy, the National Captive Nations Committee, the Ukrainian Catholic Church, China and Mao Zedong.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9w10382r/

[0811] Lev E. Dobriansky Papers 2, 1950-2002 (bulk 1980-1998), GTM.GAMMS447

Location: Georgetown University Manuscripts, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University, 37th & O Streets NW, Washington, DC 20057-1174

Description: Lev E. Dobriansky (1918-2008) was a professor of Economics at Georgetown University (1948-1986) and U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas (1982 to 1986). Dobriansky served as the chairman of the National Captive Nations Committee and the Victims of Communism Foundation, and as president of the American Council for World Freedom from 1976 to 1979 and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America from 1949 to 1982. Correspondents include presidents Eisenhower, Ford, Nixon, and Reagan. Files on American Legion, James Burnham, George W. Bush, Heritage Foundation, Human Events, Jesse Helms, Katyń Forest Massacre, Trent Lott, National Review, Gingrich Newt, Grover G. Norquist, László Pásztor, Ronald Reagan, John K. Singlaub, Rama Swarup, Strom Thurmond, George Weigel, and World Anti-Communist League.

Finding aid:

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/559184/GTM.GAMMS447.html

[0812] Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan Newspaper Clipping Files

Location: Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan Collections, Fung Library, Harvard University, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: The DCJ's newspaper clipping files include clippings under the heading Nationalism—Right wing.

Websites with information:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/fung/dccj/dccj_clippings.cfm

[0813] Thomas J. Dodd Papers, undated, 1919-1971, MSS 1994-0065 [partly digital collection]

Location: Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries, 405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205

Description: Dodd (1907-1971) was a U.S. representative from Connecticut, 1953-1957, and a senator from Connecticut, 1959-1971. During World War II, Dodd handled cases for the U.S. Justice Department involving espionage and sabotage that helped cripple Nazi fifth column efforts to destabilize the United States war effort. His work led to the convictions of Count Anastase Vonsiatsky and others on spying charges. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946. Series I: Outgoing Correspondence, 1959-1970, contains files on Styles Bridges, Harry F. Byrd, James O. Eastland, Robert M. Harriss, J. Edgar Hoover, Vivien Kellems, Edith K. Roosevelt, Archibald Roosevelt, and Strom Thurmond. Series III: Administrative and Legislative Files, 1949-1971, Subseries A: Correspondence with Members of Congress, undated, 1959-1970, contains files on Everett McKinley Dirksen, Robert J. Dole, James O. Eastland, Barry Goldwater, Karl E. Mundt, John C. Stennis, Herman Talmadge, Strom Thurmond, and John Tower. Subseries E: Speeches, Articles, and Press Releases, 1959-1971, contains statements, speeches, remarks, press releases, memoranda, and articles on anti-Semitism, the Swastika Epidemic, and Communism; black anti-Semitism; Senator Styles Bridges; William Buckley; Senator Harry Byrd, Sr.; Whittaker Chambers; The Coming Defeat of Communism, by James Burnham; Communist infiltration of anti-Vietnam agitation; Communist infiltration of the Nuclear Test Ban Movement; Communist infiltration of the SANE Nuclear Test Movement; Communist propaganda and infiltration; repeal of the Connally Reservation; the Genocide Convention; Alger Hiss attack on Richard Nixon; Herbert Hoover; J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; testimony of Edward Hunter before the Internal Security Subcommittee; John Birch Society; KKK legislation; the Katanga Crisis; Fulton Lewis, Jr.; General Douglas MacArthur; Owen Lattimore; Clare Boothe Luce; Nasser's anti-Jewish propaganda; Otto Otepka and the Otepka case; right wing extremism; George E. Sokolsky; States' Rights Bill (1959; opposed by Dodd); and Congressman Francis E. Walter. Series IV: Investigative Files, 1956-1970, Subseries D: Congo, undated, 1960-1969, contains files on American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters: Report, Free Cuba News, and Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba, Inc. Series VII: Nuremberg Trial, undated, 1919-1995, Subseries E: Conduct of Trial, undated, 1934-1959, 1995, contains files on Franz von Papen addressing the Tribunal [1945-1946] and Karl Doenitz addressing the Tribunal [1945-1946]. Series VIII: Personal Papers, 1920-1971, Subseries A: Personal Correspondence, 1955-1970, contains files on John W. Bricker, William F. Buckley, Jr., Kenneth De Courcy, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, and Clare Boothe Luce.