| Title |
Description |
Call
Number |
Separate
Records Available? |
| American
Civil Liberties Union archives, 1950-1990 |
The ACLU Archives are central
to the study of almost any topic in 20th-century
American legal and political history. The ACLU Archives,
1950-1990 is an excellent resource for those studying
civil rights, legal history, radical history, postwar
American history, African-American history, women's
history, political history, and the Cold War. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 4356 |
No |
| Brownell
v. Communist Party |
The record of proceedings which
resulted in an order by the Subversive Activities
Control Board that the Communist Party register
as a Communist-action organization under the Subversive
Activities Control Act of 1950. |
MICFILM 1155 |
No |
| Earl
Browder papers, 1891-1975 |
Earl Browder was an American socialist
and leader of the Communist Party USA. Browder's
place in history as General Secretary of the Communist
Party of the United States of America from 1929-1944
corresponds precisely to the time when the party
had its greatest impact on American politics and
labor. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 1074 |
No |
| FBI
file: Alger Hiss / Whittaker Chambers
|
This file depicts the machinations
of the many characters involved in a typical McCarthy-era
communist witch-hunt. Trails of evidence are followed
through correspondence between supposed communist
party members and sympathizers, and interviews with
associates of the accused. Handwriting samples are
analyzed, denials and finger-pointing are rampant,
and HUAC testimonies flow as a litany of "who
met with whom, where and when, what was said, and
most importantly, were/are you a communist?"
Guide available. |
MICFILM 4240 |
No |
| Files
of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern
Archives |
The material in the collection,
largely the original headquarters records of the
CPUSA shipped to Moscow many decades ago, spans
the period from 1912 to 1944 with the bulk in the
period from 1922 to 1936. Many of the documents
in this collection are unique; the records are very
detailed regarding the history of the CPUSA, particularly
its origins in the 1920's and the early and middle
1930's. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4184 |
No |
| The
papers of Aaron Burr |
The correspondence, books, journals,
and legal papers included in this collection vividly
portray Burr's early years in the military, as a
New York lawyer, his major role in the formation
of the Jeffersonian party, and his subsequent rise
to the position of Vice President of the United
States. The collection also depicts his fall from
power and provides valuable insight into the duel
with Alexander Hamilton, which destroyed his promising
career. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4188 |
No |
| The
Peter Force collection |
Force's major achievement was
as an editor and collector of historical material.
He published four volumes of rare pamphlets, Tracts
and Other Papers, Relating Principally
to the Origin, Settlement and Progress
of the Colonies in North America (1834-1836).
The remainder of his career he spent on his monumental
work, the American Archives. Force projected
a 20-volume series of primary sources of American
history from the seventeenth century to 1789. |
MICFILM 1609 |
No |
| Socialist
Party of America papers, 1897-1963 |
Records in this collection reflect
the party's internal disputes, including the 1919
split, which resulted in the formation of the American
Communist Party. An important
segment of the material focuses on the 1950s and
1960s, when the party's momentum was aided by social
unrest and the concomitant increase in civil rights
activities. These were also the years when the Socialist
Party of America finally received widespread attention
from intellectuals and influential government leaders
in President Johnson's War on Poverty. Guide
available.
|
MICFILM 933 |
No |
| The
Thomas E. Watson papers |
Watson represented the growing
mass of poor farmers in the South and Midwest at
a time when their economic and political status
was rapidly slipping in the wake of urbanization
and industrialization.Watson’s early populism was
an appeal to the oppressed of both races against
the common foe of corporate domination. That appeal
came to grief in the rising tide of racism at the
end of the century, and by 1906 Watson was in the
forefront of those sponsoring state legislation
to ensure white supremacy. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 3016 |
No |
| U.S.
Army surveillance of dissidents, 1965-1972
|
In reaction to media allegations
of illegal army intelligence activities during the
Vietnam War, the army chief of staff formed the
ACSI (Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence)
Task Force in early 1971. The task force's purpose
was to respond to media and congressional investigations
into the army's surveillance of dissident citizens
and organizations. Guide available. |
MICFILM 4294 |
No |
| Watergate
FBI investigation file |
The FBI file on Watergate, over
14,000 pages long, provides important insight into
American political history. It includes all the
FBI’s investigative reports and evidence, plus data
that was gathered on the campaign activities of
the 1972 presidential candidates. Digital
guide. |
MICFILM 3027 |
No |
Emory Microform Gateway
