Today is my last day working on the Hall Hoag project. It has been almost 3 years since I started and I have had a…
In my 130 hours working as an intern on the Hall Hoag Collection, I’ve learned about extremism, A/V formats, and listened to several rambling audiocassette…
Proletarian Publishers was started in 1972 as a rebuttal to the Communist Party, USA. The San Francisco based organization sought to build a multinational Marxist-Leninist Communist…
This week’s post contains a few items from Boston during the 1970s about the Women’s Liberation Movement. One item is a flyer for a rally to…
Prophetic Herald was founded in Spokane, Washington by Alexander Schiffner in 1962. The Hall Hoag collection contains items from the 1960s through the 1990s, although it…
The Washington Peace Center was started in 1963 by Larry Scott to “education, support, and provide resources to activist groups.”[1] Focusing mostly on anti-war and…
On March 12th and 13th I participated in the 2015 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Unconference and Symposium: Innovation, Collaboration, and Models at the University of Pennsylvania During…
The White American Resistance or White Aryan Resistance is a white supremacist organization founded by Tom Mezinger who was a grand wizard of the KKK….
The Student Mobilization Committee was formed in 1966 “to coordinate opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam among college and high school students.”[1]…
This week’s post comes of This Week Magazine, a very popular Sunday newspaper supplement from the 1930s through the 1960s. [1] The publication contained fiction, cartoons, and…