General. Serial issues, pamphlets, leaflets, bulletins newsletters, reports, directories, manuals, appointment books, memoranda, and copies of New Deal legislation, 1901-1989, relating to political, social, economic, and military conditions in the United States

American Friends Service Committee. Pamphlet relating to German refugees, 1939; and a button, n.d., that belonged to one Elizabeth Everett

American Youth Congress. Clippings, 1935-1970, relating mainly to activities of the American Youth Congress in the 1930s

Anti-Semitism. Leaflets issued by the Edmondson (Economic Service), 1934

Armed Forces

Instructional guide, entitled "AirLand Battle," n.d., relating to the theory of coordination of air and ground military operations

Pamphlets, one relating to defense production, 1952, and one relating to the threat of disease and non-battle injury to U.S. military personnel in the Gulf War of 1991, 1991 February 15

Miscellany. Two mimeographed technical training bulletins, European Theater, 1945 June-July; one serial issue, 1949, issued by the Bureau of Naval Personnel; and one study, n.d., relating to motor vehicle operation in desert country and cold climates

Bicentennial. Addresses, illustrations, proclamations, and other material, l976, issued in commemoration of the Bicentenary of the United States

Business. Reprint of a speech by Susanna W. Purnell, 1986, relating to U.S. business abroad and the threat of terrorism

Christians for Socialism. Tract, ca. 1983, entitled "Commies for Christ," relating to similarities between Christianity and communism, and to guidelines for U.S. foreign policy

Civil rights movement. Pamphlets and leaflets, 1946-1967, relating in particular to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Communism. See also socialism

General. Correspondence, speeches, statements, testimonies, reports, studies, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, and clippings, 1946-1977, relating to international communism and to communism in the United States

Issue of Left Review, n.d., organ of the John Reed Club of Philadelphia

Cooperative movement. Pamphlets, 1943-1944

Environment

General. Includes a brochure, n.d., describing the Earth Island Institute

Green parties. Flyer issued by the Green Party of California, 1991

Hoover, Herbert C.

Issue of The Illustrated Review, 1920 February, featuring Herbert Hoover

Printed articles, 1987-1992, relating to Herbert Hoover's mining career in Australia at the turn of the century

Tributes, 1953-1954, presented to Herbert Hoover by the Bohemian Club

LaRouche, Lyndon. Pamphlets, 1994, issued by Lyndon LaRouche groups, relating to world population policy and the electoral candidacies of LaRouche supporters

Libertarianism

General. Correspondence, reports, essays, financial records, notes, leaflets, pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, newspaper and serial issues, and other printed matter, relating to libertarianism in the United States, the organization and activities of the Libertarian Party in California and other libertarian organizations and conservative youth groups, and the First National Convention of the Libertarian Party

First issue of the newsletter North Texas Libertarian, 1986 March, relating to the beginning of the 1986 Libertarian Party campaign in Texas

Merchant marine. Log-book (handwritten), for a voyage of the steam-ship Lottie Bennet from San Francisco to Valparaiso, Chile, 1914; and log-book (blank), for a voyage of the schooner W.F. Jewett from San Francisco to Callao, Peru, 1913

Migrant labor - California. 1938 reprint of John Steinbeck's essay "Their Blood Is Strong," originally published in 1936 and relating to the migratory agricultural workers in California

Minorities. Reprint of an article by Wendell L. Willkie entitled "The Case for the Minorities," 1942

National Popular Government League. Bulletins, 1929-1940, relating to various aspects of the political process

Presidential inaugurations. Reception and concert invitations, programs, and campaign badges, 1953-1973, relating to the inaugurations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon

Prisons. Essay, ca. 1960, by U.S. Bureau of Prisons director James V. Bennett, entitled "Of Prisons and Justice," relating to the penal system in general and to vocational training in prisons in particular

Protestant Episcopal Church. Clippings and other printed matter, 1974-1978, relating to alleged Marxist influence in the Protestant Episcopal Church and in the World Council of Churches. Includes an Episcopalian study guide entitled "Struggling with the System: Probing Alternatives"

Radicalism. Reports, 1924, relating to activities of the Workers' (Communist) Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and other leftist organizations in Los Angeles during this period

Reform movements. Pamphlets, bulletins, and leaflets issued by various reform movements, 1943-1971

Republican Party. Typescript memoir relating to the Republican National Convention of July 1952, and Earl Warren, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard M. Nixon. Written by a convention messenger. May be used only by persons agreeing not to disclose the identity of the author

Smith Act. Circular, 1952, relating to appeals for the defense of Oleta O'Connor Yates, under indictment on charges of violating the Smith Act

Socialism

General. Pamphlets, leaflets, booklets, newspaper and serial issues, bulletins, clippings, reports, and minutes, 1911-l967, relating to the Socialist and Communist parties, as well as to other radical movements in the U.S., and to Leon Trotsky and the onset of World War II, as viewed by the communist and Trotskyist press in the U.S. Includes a legal brief and a legal decision, as well as notes, l937-l94l, relating to legal proceedings against Harry Bridges

Issue of The N.Y. Socialist, 1919 May 17, put out by the left wing of the Socialist Party and parodying The Socialist, the official organ of the party; and genuine issue of The Socialist, 1919 May 27

Pamphlets, 1920-1942? relating to Eugene V. Debs

Scrapbook of clippings, 1928-1930, relating to Socialist candidates in the Presidential campaign of 1928 and Congressional and state elections of 1930

Roosevelt, Theodore. Program of memorial service, 1919 February 9

Trade unions

General. Program of the Needle Trade Union, published by the Trade Union Education League, Needle Trade Section (in Yiddish), 1926

Handbills, 1931-1932, advocating unionization and unemployment relief in the U.S., and expressing pro-Soviet sympathies (some issued by the Communist Party of the United States of America)

Veterans

Bryant, M. C. Newspaper clippings, 1928, relating to the suicide of M. C. Bryant, an American businessman in France and a member of the American Relief Administration during World War I

Karling, F. Biographical sketch of F. Karling, Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, 1918-1920

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Brochure, 1986, relating to the work of the council and to the official groundbreaking of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Wilson, Woodrow. Mimeographed copy of a letter, 1917 November 22, from President Woodrow Wilson to Jacob H. Schiff, head of the Jewish War Relief, relating to that organization's fund-raising campaign

Miscellany. Two identical leaflets in Cambodian (possibly Thai or Laotian), n.d., dropped from an airplane over Stockton, California

Broadside issued by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights and entitled "High Holiday Boycott Proclamation," calling for a boycott of German goods and services as a way of fighting Nazi Germany and of helping to save the Jewish people from destruction. In English and Hebrew

Phonorecords

Inaugural addresses and other speeches by various presidents

Coolidge, Calvin

Hoover, Herbert (on agriculture and Prohibition)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truman, Harry S

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Kennedy, John F.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

"Army Week Prayer" (delivered by Major General Luther D. Miller, Chief of Chaplains), produced by the Radio Section of the War Department Public Relations Division, with the cooperation of the Military Order of the World Wars, for Army Week, 1947 April. Includes a statement by General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Phonotape cassettes. 7 phonotape cassettes of speeches on American politics and political parties by Frank Chodorov, John Hospers, Murray Rothbard, and Ludwig Von Mises