Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, studies, financial records, printed matter, and sound recordings of interviews and other audiovisual material, relating to conservatism in the United States, the mass media, Grove City College, the Heritage Foundation, the Republican Party, Walter Judd, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. Includes extensive research material used in books and other writing projects by Lee Edwards. Also includes papers of Willard Edwards, journalist and father of Lee Edwards.

Edwards, a historian of American conservatism, has been the author or editor of over 20 books, including biographies of Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Edwin Meese III, as well as histories of the Heritage Foundation and the conservative movement as a whole.

389 manuscript boxes, 12 card file boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 5 film reels, 1 oversize folder (146.4 linear feet)

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use.