Research Guides: POL 300: Socialism: Primary Sources

US Government Primary Sources

ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
All things Congress- full text of: federal bills and laws (1776-present); voting records (1987-present); U.S. Serial Set and American State Papers (1817-present); published and unpublished Congressional hearings from (1824 to present); Congressional Record (1873-present) and its predecessor publications (1789-1873); Congressional Research Service reports (1916-present). Coverage: 1789-present
ProQuest Executive Branch Documents 1789-1952 This link opens in a new window
Contains documents produced by US executive branch departments, agencies, and commissions from 1789 - 1952. Coverage: 1789-1952

FBI Records: The Vault
Contains declassified FBI records of surveillance activities. Includes records relating to labor and civil rights organizations, organized crime, and other groups and individuals the FBI has monitored over time.
National Archives
Search by topic, group, person to see if they have primary sources of interest.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Thousands of digital records grouped into online collections that span US history.

Primary Sources on Socialism

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History Vault Labor Priests Progressive Politics
History Vault Labor Unions in US, 1861-1974
History Vault Progressive Era La Follette Papers
History Vault Progressive Era Voices of Reform
History Vault Socialist Party of America Papers
History Vault Workers Labor Unions Amer Left
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals
Socialist and Radical Periodicals

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Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford) This link opens in a new window
Includes the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders. It also covers organizations that evolved from or were influenced by RAM and persons that had close ties to RAM. Coverage: 1962-1999
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Access primary sources from nine archives in the UK, New Zealand, and the US to give insight into the changes in China during this period. Covers the time period from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People's Republic. Coverage: 1793-1980
Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new window
Contains FBI files on a wide range of organizations, people, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements. Includes files on Abbie Hoffman, Ceasar Chavez, The Weather Underground, Students for a Democratic Society and more. Coverage: 1956-1971
Federal Surveillance of African Americans, 1920-1984 This link opens in a new window
Contains Justice Department and FBI files on a wide range of African American organizations, people, and activities from 1928-1984. Includes Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, NAACP, and more. Coverage: 1920-1984
Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress This link opens in a new window
The Civil Rights Congress (CRC) was formed in 1946 by a merger of three groups with ties to the Communist Party: the International Labor Defense, the National Negro Congress, and the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. The records in this collection represent the files of the national office of the CRC, including case files, publications, correspondence, etc. Coverage: 1946-1955
Greensboro Massacre, 1979: Shootout between the American Nazis and the Communist Workers Party This link opens in a new window
This collection of documents from the FBI, local and state police, and other law enforcement agencies provides insights into the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, including the motivations of the Communist organizers, the shootings, subsequent investigations, and efforts to heal the Greensboro community. Coverage: 1979-1981
HeinOnline Labor and Employment Database This link opens in a new window
Covers US labor history and current labor issues in the US. It combines legislative histories, Supreme Court case briefs, accounts of historical labor riots, current reports on working conditions, and scholarly book and journal content.
Political Extremism and Radicalism This link opens in a new window
Primary sources on political extremism and radicalism across the globe. Covers 1900-2010. Includes monographs and manuscripts by and about these movements. Content Warning: This collection contains images and documents that may be triggering or disturbing to some.
Popular Culture in Britain and America This link opens in a new window
From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950's to the 1970's through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives This link opens in a new window
One of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. Covers opinions on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented. Coverage: 1935-present
Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Communist Party: Papers of James and Esther Cooper Jackson This link opens in a new window
Contains clippings, correspondence, James Jackson's lectures, research notebooks, speeches, and writings (published and unpublished), internal documents pertaining to the Southern Negro Youth Congress and to Freedomways, materials pertaining to the Smith Act indictments of Jackson and other communists, Communist Party internal documents, and memorabilia and other biographical materials. Source Library: Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University. Coverage: 1932-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600 to 2000 This link opens in a new window
Includes primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Also includes a searchable online edition of the highly respected research tool "Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary" (5 volumes, 1971–2004), fully integrated into the broader Women & Social Movements database.

Fabian Society Tracts
The Fabian Society (British Socialist organization) started publishing tracts in 1884, and included in this site are most tracts up to 2000. Many of the early tracts were written by LSE founders George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb
Kheel Center for Labor Management
The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives was founded in 1949 as the Labor-Management Documentation Center. Its continuing purpose is the preservation of original source materials relevant to the history of American labor unions, management theory as it applies to labor and industrial relations, and the history of employees at the workplace.
Independent Voices
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Marxist Internet Archive
MIA contains the writings of close to 1000 authors representing a complete spectrum of political, philosophical, and scientific thought, generally spanning the past 200 years. MIA contains these writings in 83 different languages, comprising a total size of over 180,000 documents, all created through the work of volunteers around the world.
Marxist Internet Archive - Periodicals
Archived journals, magazines and newspapers.
Social Welfare History Archives
The Archives' mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to historical records on social services and social reform in the United States. The Social Welfare History Archives was founded in 1964 through the work of University of Minnesota historian, Clarke Chambers. During his research on social service organizations, he discovered that many still had historical records. He recognized the research potential of these collections and established the Archives to document the history of social service and social reform in the United States.

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