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

Websites with information:

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/university-of-mississippi/manuscript?­page=show

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/alpha.html

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_intro/bynumber.html

http://www.library.olemiss.edu/guides/archives_subject_guide/politics/manuscript-20th?page=show

Finding aid:

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00024.html

[0241] Bryton Barron Papers, 1923-1967, Coll. Ax 463

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Knight Library, 2nd floor North, Mail: UO Libraries--SPC, 1299 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1299

Description: Bryton Barron (1898- ) was a teacher, a writer, a civil servant, a publisher and political conservative. In 1929 he joined the State Department as assistant editor, became chief of the Treaty Section, and finally member of the Historical Division, where he helped compile the Yalta papers. Mr. Barron, before he retired last week after twenty six years in the department, protested the delay in publishing the papers and charged that important documents were being censored. After leaving the State Department in 1956, he commenced lecturing and writing critically about the Department and United States foreign policy generally. Barron founded a publishing company, Crestwood Books, in 1962, as a publishing vehicle for his and similar books. In 1960-1961 he was coordinator in Virginia for the John Birch Society. The collection includes correspondence, writings, reports and newspaper clippings. The papers contain correspondence with American Opinion, National Review, Herbert Hoover, Robert Welch, Willis A. Carto, Clare Hoffman, and Dan Smoot. There are materials relating to the John Birch Society, Christian Crusade (Billy James Hargis), Conservative Society of America (Kent Courtney), We, The People (Harry T. Everingham), American Coalition of Patriotic Societies (Milton M. Lory), Anti-Communist Liaison (Edward Hunter), and publication of the Malta and Yalta conference record.

Reference:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library, compiled by Martin Schmitt (Eugene, University of Oregon, 1971), http://library.uoregon.edu/ec/e-asia/read/schmitt.pdf.

Finding aids:

http://library.uoregon.edu/tools/blogs/scua/check-out-barron-bryton-papers/

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124/op=pretrieve.aspx

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv96124

[0242] David P. Barrows papers, 1890-1954, 1890-1954, BANC MSS C-B 1005

Location: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Description: Barrows (1873-1954) was president of the University of California, 1919-1923, and professor of political science, 1924-1943. The collection includes letters written to him and copies of his replies; diaries and notebooks; biographical sketches and obituaries; personalia; bibliographies; MSS, tear sheets and reprints of his writings; speeches and radio addresses; collegiate class notes; lectures, with related notes, syllabi, etc. for courses taught by him; MSS and clippings of his syndicated INS articles on world affairs; subject files reflecting his many interests, activities and associations; scrapbooks; and clippings. Correspondence from American Coalition (John B. Trevor) (a letter protesting against the President's proposal to pack the Supreme Court), Charles Austin Beard, Charles Matthias Goethe, Herbert Clark Hoover, William Fife Knowland, Clare Boothe Luce, National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government (Frank E. Gannett), John Francis Neylan, Franklin Roosevelt, and Burton Kendall Wheeler.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2f59n67s/entire_text/

[0243] E.L. "Bob" Bartlett Papers, 1926-1964, USUAF53

Location: Alaska Polar Regions Collections & Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775

Description: Bartlett (1904-1968) was secretary of the Territory of Alaska, and delegate to Congress, and U.S. senator. The majority of the material in the Bartlett papers relates to Bartlett's political career, and focuses on his participation as Delegate and Senator to the 79th through the 90th sessions of Congress (1945-1968). As Alaska Delegate, Bartlett spearheaded the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 that allowed Alaska to care for their mentally ill citizens. Assisting him in this endeavor was Representative Edith Green of Oregon. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, memos, congressional records, legislative bills and acts, House and Senate reports, audits, and clippings. Includes correspondence between Delegate Bartlett and Rep. Green.

References:

Claus-M. Naske, "Bob Bartlett and the Alaska Mental Health Act," The Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 71, No. 1 (Jan. 1980), pp. 31-39; Research Guide to Alaska Mental Health History Sources, Compiled by Lisa Morris (2010), http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/sites/default/files/projects/MH_reseach_guide_July2010.pdf

Websites with information:

http://library.uaf.edu/apr-collections-political

https://library.uaf.edu/apr-collections-political

Finding Aid:

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv11987/

[0243a] William Warren Bartley miscellaneous papers, 1975-1988, Coll. 91022

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010

Description: William Warren Bartley (1934-1990) was a professor and American philosopher who edited works by Karl Popper and Friedrich A. von Hayek. He was the editor of Hayek's The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (London, 1988), a book which discusses Hayek's view of socialism, defining the fatal conceit as the idea that "man is able to shape the world according to his wishes" (p. 27). The papers consist of drafts, galleys, proofs, memoranda, and correspondence related to production of The Fatal Conceit; and sound recordings of speeches and lectures by F. A. von Hayek, Bernard Siegan, Martin Larson, F. A. Harper, Murray Rothbard, William Hutt, and others related to laissez-faire economics.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9f59s0t0/entire_text/

[0244] Jacques Barzun Papers, ca.1900-1999, MS#1483

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

Description: Jacques Martin Barzun (1907-2012) was a French-born American historian of ideas and culture. Series I: Cataloged Correspondence, contains correspondence with Charles Austin Beard, William Frank Buckley, Jr., Nicholas Murray Butler, Max Eastman, Milton Stover Eisenhower, T. S. Eliot, Granville Hicks, Hamilton Holt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Robinson Luce, Marshall McLuhan, Henry Louis Mencken, Norman Podhoretz, and Peter Viereck.

Finding aid:

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079628/

[0244a] Ewing Cannon Baskette collection of print materials, 1902-1959, 02/Baskette

Location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 346 Main Library (MC-522), 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801

Description: Ewing Cannon Baskette (1902-1958), a lawyer, librarian, and bibliographer, owned the largest private collection on civil liberties and freedom of expression in the United States. Series 1: Correspondence, 1821-1976, contains letters to Baskette from Harry Elmer Barnes, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman, H. L. Mencken, and Wendell L. Willkie. Vertical file materials on topics including American heritage (Patriotism); Americans for Moral Decency; Anti-Communist Movements (conservatism, political right); Anti-Semitism; Bible (Fundamentalism); Catholic Church – Controversial Literature (anti-Catholic literature); Citizens for Decent Literature; Civil Rights; Communism – Russia; Communism – United States; Clarence Seward Darrow; Discrimination; Espionage; Eugenics and Birth Control; Fascism; National Organization for Decent Literature; Religion and state (Church and state); Sabotage; Scopes Trial; Sedition; Gerald L. K. Smith (McClanahan recall); and Unamerican activity investigations (Subversive activities).