Description: Irving Brant (1885-1976) was an author, historian, and newspaper editor. Correspondence, memoranda, writings and speeches, research notes, and other papers reflecting Brant's career with various newspapers, in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a playwright, and his interest in James Madison. The series General Correspondence, 1901-1977, contains files on American Mercury, Charles A. Beard, William Edgar Borah, Virginius Dabney, James J. Kilpatrick, National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, Ezra Pound, Reader's Digest, and Oswald Garrison Villard.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html
Finding aids:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011060.3
http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011060.pdf
[0365] Boris Brasol Papers, 1919-1954, MSS13672
Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE, Room LM 101, James Madison Memorial Bldg, Washington, D.C. 20540-4680
Description: Boris Brasol (1885-1963) was a Russian author and critic, criminologist, and lawyer, known for the creation and dissemination of an American edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was a member of the Russian ultra-conservative monarchist organization Black Hundreds. Correspondence, speeches, drafts and typescripts, notes, memoranda, and other material relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist and literary critic. Subjects include the 1920s libel suit instituted by Herman Bernstein against Henry Ford for the publication of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Reference:
Eugene Pivovarov, "The Papers of Boris Leo Brasol and the Pushkin Society in America in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress," Journal of American Ethnic History 23.1 (Fall 2003): 85-92; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part I: Beilis, the Protocols, and Henry Ford," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.1 (June 2012): 199-220, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenent.pdf; Richard Spence, "The Tsar's Other Lieutenant: The Antisemitic Activities of Boris L'vovich Brasol, 1910-1960. Part II: White Russians, Nazis, and the Blue Lamoo," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 4.2 (Dec. 2012): 679-706, http://jsantisemitism.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Tsars-Other-Lieutenant.pdf.
Websites with information:
http://findingaids.loc.gov/browse/collections/b
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html
Finding aids:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011021.3
http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011021.pdf
http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2011/ms011021.pdf
[0366] Herbert M. Bratter Collection, 1890s-1975, AC0137
Location: Archives Center, National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Description: Herbert Max Bratter (1900-1976) was an economic and financial specialist. The papers document the working files and home movies of Bratter and his professional career. The materials consist of biographical materials (academic and military records), press releases, newspaper clippings; daily, weekly and monthly releases from government agencies; clippings from the Congressional Record on monetary matters such as silver and gold; topical files covering a range of monetary subjects; publications, including writings about the Bretton Woods Conference, scrapbooks, and moving images including home movies. Files on Bimetallism, Goods or Gold? The Meaning of the Bretton Woods Agreement, by Robert Boothby (1944), William E. Borah, Bretton Woods Agreement Act (debates), Bretton Woods Conference, Reverend Charles E. Coughlin, Martin Dies, Economists' National Committee on Monetary Policy, After Bretton Woods--What? by Lionel D. Edie (1944), Elgin Groseclose, Senator Patrick McCarran, Raymond Moley, James P. Warburg, and Burton K. Wheeler.
Finding aids:
http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0137.pdf
http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/d8137.htm
[0367] Michael Braver Collection of Americanist material, 1960-1979, Collection Number 1585
Location: Department of Special Collections, Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Description: Michael Bruce Braver (1946- ) is a clinical psychologist. Collection consists of over 300 speeches by Americanist right-wing extremist spokesmen on reel to reel and cassette tapes, as well as Americanist journals, books, pamphlets, booklets, and fugitive materials. The series Major Journals and Newsletters contains copies of Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC) Newsletter, Christian Crusade (Annual), Christian Crusade Weekly, Christian Vanguard (New Christian Crusade Church), Freedom, The Independent American (Littleton, CO), John Birch Society Bulletin, Liberty Letter, Dr. McBirnie's Newsletter, National Chronicle, Report on Freedom, Review of the News, and The Utah Independent; reprints from Review of the News and associated Birch Society pamphlets (including works by Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, Ezra Taft Benson, Samuel Blumenfeld, Edward Griffin, John F. McManus, (Hon.) John Schmitz, George Schuyler, Alan Stang, and Robert Welch); and booklets by Dr. Wesley A. Swift. The series Assorted Fugitive Materials and Limited Issues of Magazines contains announcements, pamphlets, bulletins, internal memos, and transcripts by A.C.T. (Association of Concerned Taxpayers), America First (Liberty Lobby), American Intelligence Agency, Americanism Educational League: Buena Park, California, American Opinion Bookstore Booknews, American Opinion, Americans for Constitutional Action (including a work by Adm. Ben Moreell), The Ayn Rand Letter, Caxton Books Publications (Announcements featuring Jo Hindman's three books: Terrible 1313 Revisited; Blame Metro; and The Metrocrats. Also a Chart of the Metro Conspiracy dated June 1972), Christian Anti-Communism Crusade Bulletin/Newsletter, Christian Crusade (Fact Files on Billy James Hargis, David Noebel, and Jess Pedigo), Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc. and Moral Advance, Committee To Restore the Constitution, Family Heritage Series, FiPo (Fire and Police Research Association of Los Angeles), Gary Allen Communications, H.O.W. (Happiness of Womanhood), John Birch Society, Libertarian Party, Liberty Lobby, The Minutemen, National Educator, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., National Socialist White Peoples Party, The Network (of Patriotic Letter Writers), New Christian Crusade Church (letters from James K. Warner), New England Rally for God, Family, and Country, Objectivist Book Service, Inc. Reading List, Poor Richard's Bookshop, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Liberty Books for Patriots, Tax Fax, Tax Rebellion Committee, T.A.C.T. (Truth About Civil Turmoil) (Charles Smith), Voice of Americanism (including How the Communists Plan Race War), Washington Observer Newsletter, and We the People. The series Transcripts Of Speeches contains transcripts of speeches by Ezra Taft Benson, Billy James Hargis, Carl McIntire, Robert Morris, and Gen. Edwin Walker. The series Books By Americanist Authors contains works by Gary Allen, Phoebe Courtney, Billy James Hargis, Fred Schwarz, Alan Stang, Willis Stone, John Stormer, and Robert Welch. The series Critical and Academic Analyses of Americanism contains Hooded Americanism, by David Chalmers (Chicago, Quandrangle 1968); The Dixon Line: An Anti-Extremist Newsletter; Group Research Report; and Key Influences in the American Right, by Ferdinand Solara (Denver, Polifax Press, 1972). The series Cassette Tapes contains tapes of speeches by Larry Abraham, Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, Maj. Edgar Bundy, Myron Fagan, (Rev.) Kenneth Goff (Soldiers of the Cross), G. Edward Griffin, (Rev.) Billy James Hargis, Walter Judd, David Noebel, Jess Pedigo, Fernando Penebaz, George Lincoln Rockwell, (Hon.) John Schmitz, Fred Schwarz, Cleon Skousen, Dan Smoot, Alan Stang, Willis Stone, and Robert Welch. The series Reel to Reel Tapes contains tapes of speeches by Larry Abraham, Gary Allen, Tom Anderson, John Ashbrook, Ezra Taft Benson, Major Edgar C. Bundy (Church League of America), Taylor Caldwell,