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

Acknowledgment is gratefully made to the tireless archivists and librarians who prepared the finding aids on which this guide is principally based, and whose collective energies--of incalculable value--I have been fortunate enough to harness. Much of the language in the guide's descriptions is taken or paraphrased from those finding aids. I also wish to thank Matthew Feldman for his encouragement. For specific information, I wish to thank Jorge Dagnino, Bernard Dew, Matthew Feldman, Luca Gallesi, Svetlana Nedeljkov, the Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek (Lars Gogman), George Mason University Libraries (Rebecca Bramlett), Handskrifts- och musikenheten / Uppsala universitetsbibliotek (Kia Hedell), Riksarkivet Landsarkivet i Göteborg (Per Forsberg), the Region- och Stadsarkivet Göteborg med Folkrörelsernas arkiv (Paul Epäilys), Sigtunastiftelsens klipparkiv (Anna-Karin Sandell), Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek (Anders Larsson), and the University of Akron Library (John Ball). All errors and omissions, of course, remain entirely my own.

The author would welcome any additions or corrections to this guide.

1Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences. Expanded Edition (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 158-159.

2T. S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1921), http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html.

3James Baldwin, "The White Man's Guilt," Ebony 20.10 (Aug. 1965): 47.

4Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), p. 509.

5Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden, Adrian Veres, Matthew K. Gray, The Google Books Team, Joseph P. Pickett, Dale Hoiberg, Dan Clancy, Peter Norvig, Jon Orwant, Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and Erez Lieberman Aiden, “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” Science 331 (14 Jan. 2011): 176-182 (179), http://www.uvm.edu/~cmplxsys/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/reading-group/pdfs/2011/michel2011a.pdf

6Randall C. Jimerson, Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice, http://faculty.wwu.edu/jimerson/ArchivesPower-Introduction.htm

7Filippo de Vivo, Andrea Guidi, and Alessandro Silvestri, "Archival Transformations in Early Modern European History," European History Quarterly 46.3 (2016): 421-434, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/‌0265691416648257.

8de Vivo et al.; Gregory Leazer, "The Contribution of Archival Studies to the i-School Movement?" [abstract, 2015], http://aer i2015.umd.edu/paper-abstracts/.

9Antoinette Burton, "Introduction," Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History, ed. Antoinette Burton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), p. 2.

10Matt Cohen, "Archives and the Spirit of American Literary History," American Literary History 29.2 (Summer 2017): 438-447.

11Michael E. Stevens, "The Historian and Archival Finding Aids," Georgia Archive 5.1, Article 7 (1977), http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/georgia_archive/vol5/iss1/7.

12Jennifer Rutner and Roger C. Schonfeld, Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians: Final Report from ITHAKA S+R (December 10, 2012), p. 40, http://www.sr.ithaka.org/research-publications/supporting-changing-research-practices-historians.

13Rutner and Schonfeld, p. 40.

14Helen R. Tibbo and Lokman I. Meho, “Finding finding Aids on the World Wide Web,” American Archivist 64.1 (2001): 61-77, available as a download at http://eprints.rclis.org/8187/.

15Eric Willey, "Doc to PDF and HTML," http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org/issue3_willey/.

16Cassandra A. Schmitt, "Collection Level Records for Hidden Collections: Our Responsibility to Users," The Primary Source: The Society of Mississippi Archivists 31.1 (2012), http://msarchivists.org/theprimarysource/‌psvol31no1/psvol31no1_schmitt.html.

17"Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives," http://www.clir.org/fellowships/hiddencollections.

18"Students and Archives," http://doingarchivalresearch.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/students-and-archives/.

19For a brief history of archival descriptive standards since the late 1960s, see Christopher J. Prom, "Using Web Analytics to Improve Online Access to Archival Resources," The American Archivist, Vol. 74 (Spring/Summer 2011), pp. 158-184.

20Meghan Lyon, "Case Study: Clean Data, Cool Project," 04.14.14, http://icantiemyownshoes.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/case-study-clean-data-cool-project/

21http://beta.discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

22http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/finding_aids.html.

23The abortion issue seems to have risen to political prominence about 1972. In that year the ANES questionnaire first addressed the question of voter attitudes toward abortion. See American National Election Studies 1972 Time Series Study, http://www.electionstudies.org/studypages/1972prepost/1972prepost.htm. Right-wing challenges to the administrative state as unconstitutional and un-American began with the American Liberty League with its anti-New Deal rhetoric. Following in the wake of the ALL are such movements as the John Birch Society of the 1950s, Barry Goldwater Republicanism of the1960s, the Posse Comitatus movement of the 1970s and 1980s, the militia movement of the 1990s, the Patriot movement, and the Tea Party movement of more recent times. (Jared A. Goldstein, "The American Liberty League and the rise of constitutional nationalism," 86 Temp. L. Rev. 287-330 (2014), http://sites.temple.edu/lawreview/article/the-american-liberty-league-and-the-rise-of-constitutional-nationalism/ and http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?ab stract_id=2126811.

24Alex Schmid, Political terrorism: A research guide to the concepts, theories, databases and literature. With a bibliography by the author and a world directory of "terrorist" organizations by A. J. Jongman (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1983). See also "Appendix 2.1: 250-plus Academic, Governmental and Intergovernmental Definitions of Terrorism," compiled by Joseph J. Easson and Alex P. Schmid, in Handbook of Terrorism Research, edited by Alex P. Schmid (London and New York, Routledge [2011]), pp. 99-157.

25Kathleen M. Blee and Kimberly Creasap, "Conservative and Right-Wing Movements," Annual Review of Sociology, 2010.36: 269-86, https://www.academia.edu/4195693/Conservative_and_Right-Wing_Movements.

26Michael Whine, "The Radical Right in Europe," July 26, 2012, http://jcpa.org/article/the-radical-right-in-europe/.

27Scott Appelrouth, "The Paranoid Style Revisited: Pseudo-Conservatism in the 21st Century," Journal of Historical Sociology (2015).

28Iván Zoltan Dénes, "The Political Role of Hungary's Nineteenth-Century Conservatives and How They Saw Themselves," The Historical Journal 26.4 (Dec. 1983): 845-865 (845), http://www.ae-info.org/attach/User/Dénes_Iván/Highlight/denes_ivan_the_political_role.pdf.

29Walter D. Wagoner, "From the Right - The Wrong Gospel," Theology Today 19.1 (Apr. 1962): 16-26 (17-18).

30Kirkpatrick Sale, Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment (New York: Random House, 1975), as quoted in Matthew Continetti, "Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual," Washington Free Beacon (October 21, 2016), http://freebeacon.com/columns/crisis-conservative-intellectual/

31Continetti, op. cit. The argument has also been made, however, that "modern liberalism is a largely negative project, one that pushes back against the constraining forms of traditional life to room for the individual to live more freely." (R. R. Reno, "Eliot and Liberalism," First Things, First Thoughts Blog, 4 January 2016, https://www.firstthings.com/‌blogs/firstthoughts/2016/01/eliot-and-liberalism).

32Tanya Zanish-Belcher and Kären M. Mason, "Raising the Archival Consciousness: How Women's Archives Challenge Traditional Approaches to Collecting and Use, Or, What's in a Name?" Library Trends 56.2 (Fall 2007): 344-359 (348).