http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/browselists/socsc.html
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/r/rmc/socsc.html
Finding aids:
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM06477.html
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=rmc;cc=rmc;rgn=main;view=text;didno=RMM
06477.xml
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=rmc;cc=rmc;type=simple;rgn=Entire%20Finding%20Aid;q1=American%20political%20campaigns%20miscellany;view=reslist;subview=standard;sort=occur;start=1;size=25;didno=RMM06477.xml
[0118] American Political Items Collectors collection, 1895-1988, C0023
Location: Special Collections Research Center, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive MSN 2FL, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
Description: The American Political Items Collectors (APIC) is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to encourage and support the collection, study, and preservation of original materials relating to political campaigns of the United States of America. The collection contains donations of scholarly material that relates to national political campaigns as well as American history dating from 1895 to 1988. This collection is comprised of presidential campaigning materials that stem from bumper stickers to voting ballots. Not only is it an extensive collection of presidential campaigns but it also houses historical magazines, newspapers, and many other manuscripts and books. Series 1: Subject Files 1895-1982, is composed of campaigning materials such as informational pamphlets, stickers and stamps.. Files on J.S. Coxey (1895-1896), Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, and Richard Nixon. Series 3: Oversize Material, 1940-1988, is composed of posters, newspapers, photographs, and political buttons. Includes posters for Richard Nixon, John G. Schmitz and Thomas J. Anderson (1972), and George Wallace.
Websites with information:
http://sca.gmu.edu/collections-alpha.php
Finding aid:
http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/apic.html
[0119] American Protective League, New York Division Papers, ca. 1917-1919, D.419
Location: Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation, Rush Rhees Library, Second Floor, Room 225, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0055
Description: The American Protective League, New York Division Papers document the activities of an organization made up of private citizens who identified suspected German sympathizers and any other anti-American groups to protect the United States against foreign enemies during World War I. Members reported to the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Investigation. There were two classes of members: active and inactive. Active members were responsible for investigating cases assigned to them by government officials or agencies. Inactive members reported information to benefit the government and any potential investigation. Each member upon joining received an identification card. The rules and regulations of the League specified that members keep their affiliation with the organization a secret and only disclose their connection during the process of an investigation, if appropriate.
Websites with information:
http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/mssalpha
Finding aid:
http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/4746
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=4746
[0120] American Protestant Association Records, 1842-1843, RG 323
Location: Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Description: The American Protestant Association was formed in Philadelphia in 1842. Its founders were alarmed at the spread of Roman Catholicism in the United States, feeling as they did that it was "subversive of civil and religious liberty." They formed an association to further their Protestant interests; to educate their congregations about the differences between Protestantism and "Popery," and to encourage a through study of the Bible. The records of the Association include its Constitution, minutes, and first annual report.
Finding aid:
http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-323
[0121] APA Division of Public Affairs Papers, 1948-1980 (bulk 1960-1975)
Location: Archives, American Psychiatric Association, 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209
Description: The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists in the United States. Series: Government Relations, contains a file on Alaska Mental Health Legislation, 1953-1959. Series: Subject Files, contains a file on Anti-Psychiatry.
Finding aid:
http://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/Learn/Archives/mss_publicaffairs.pdf
[0122] The American Radicalism Collection [partly digital collection]
Location: Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries, 100 Main Library, 366 W. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824
Description: The American Radicalism Collection holds over 17,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemera covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, economic, and cultural issues and movements in the United States and throughout the world. The emphasis in the collection is on materials produced by radical groups, both left and right. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as well as in resources for the study of American Labor History, there is considerable material from the right, including the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's, neo-Nazi organizations, and the Christian Right. Among the component collections in the American Radicalism Collection are the Alternative Press Collection, the Edith and Arthur Fox Collection, The American Radicalism Vertical File, the Ku Klux Klan Collection, and the Arsenal Collection. All of these collections are searchable in the Michigan State University Libraries catalogue (web addresses below). The Alternative Press Collection features subscriptions, back files, and sample issues of a wide range of alternative magazines and newspapers. Approximately 1,200 titles are represented. Publications of the political parties of the left and racist and neo-Nazi organizations of the right are included. The Edith and Arthur Fox Collection has pamphlets, election material, and shop papers collected by Edith and Arthur Fox, who were long-time political and labor activists in Detroit and Socialist Workers candidates for Presidential Elector for Michigan. Series 2 – Political and Labor Activities, contains files on CIO – McCarran Act, CPUSA (Opposition), McCarran Act, Smith Act, and Taft-Hartley Act. The Ku Klux Klan Collection consists of items from the 1920's and 1930's, a period of growth in the Klan's history. Constitutions, installation ceremonies, advertisements for Klan merchandise, and the role of women in the Klan are all included from this period. There are also copies of the Kourier, the official monthly magazine of the Knights of the KKK; secondary studies of the Klan, as well as the research materials used by Wyn Wade in his book, The Fiery Cross (1987); and a large collection of United Klans of America material. The American Radicalism Vertical File contains files of clippings and miscellanea on Alert America Association, America's Future, Inc., America's Promise Radio, American Coalition of Patriotic Societies, Inc., American Conservative Union, American Council of Christian Laymen, American Freedom Coalition, American Immigration Control СКАЧАТЬ