New Left collection, 1923-2004

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Summary

Creators:
Bacciocco, Edward J.
Abstract:
The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized alphabetically by subject file, the collections consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal of ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and the counter-culture.
Extent:
70 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 envelope, 1 microfilm reel, 6 sound discs, 1 videorecording (28.0 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], New left collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The New Left Collection largely relates to radical movements for political and social change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It is the largest resource in the archives devoted to this turbulent period in American history. Organized alphabetically by subject, the collection consists of serial issues and other printed matter, and includes a great deal of ephemera, especially leaflets and flyers. Topics covered in the collection include the movement against the Vietnam War; student radicalism; the civil rights movement and black militancy; revolutionary organizations; the women's liberation movement; and the counter-culture.

There is a special emphasis in the collection on protest movements that emerged on college campuses in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are extensive materials relating to events at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. There is also considerable documentation of the organization, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), dating from its earliest years through the factional struggles that culminated in a split in SDS in 1969.

The collection was initially developed and curated by Dr. Edward Bacciocco, author of American New Left, 1956-1970 (Hoover Institution Press, 1974). Numerous increments have been added to the collection over the years; many of these incremental materials are described at the end of the finding aid. A number of topics in the register appear more than once, as a general heading or as a subheading, as in the case of Students for a Democratic Society, which appears both as a general subject and under the headings of a number of universities where local groups of SDS were active.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1969. An increment was added in 2011.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], New left collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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