Guide to the Jay Feldman Papers D-587

Liz Phillips, updated by Jason Sarmiento and Elizabeth Wood.

University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections

2024

1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California

100 North West Quad

Davis, CA 95616-5292

Telephone: (530) 752-1621

Fax Number: (530) 754-5758

speccoll@ucdavis.edu

URL: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu/archives-and-special-collections/

Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections

Title: Jay Feldman Papers

Creator: Feldman, Jay, 1943-

Identifier/Call Number: D-587

Physical Description: 7.9 linear feet

Date (inclusive): 1755-2013

Date (bulk): circa 1980-2013

Abstract: Research materials for author Jay Feldman's books Manufacturing Hysteria and When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. The collection also includes audio tapes of oral histories of Japanese Americans.

Physical Location: This collection is stored off-site at the Northern Regional Library Facility. Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections in advance.

Language of Material: English .

Biography

Jay Feldman is the author of When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes (2005), Suitcase Sefton and the American Dream (2006), Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America (2011), and Hitting: An Official Major League Baseball Book (1991).

Scope and Contents

Research materials for Feldman's books Manufacturing Hysteria and When the Mississippi Ran Backwards. The collection also includes audio tapes of oral histories of Japanese Americans.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Processing Information

Original inventory and finding aid created by Liz Phillips. Processed by Jason Sarmiento.

Acquisition

Gift of Jay Feldman, 2015.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jay Feldman Papers, D-587, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Publication Rights

Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Library, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Arrangement

Arranged in 3 series: 1. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards Files 2. Manufacturing Hysteria files. 3. Japanese American Oral Histories.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Civil Rights -- United States -- History

Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century

New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812

Japanese Americans -- Interviews

Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945

Feldman, Jay, 1943- -- Archives

"When the Mississippi Ran Backwards" Files Series 1

Box 1

Box 1, Folder 1

Chapter 4 - 5 1938-2003

Box 1, Folder 2

Chapter 6 1819-2002

Box 1, Folder 3

Chapter 7 1871-2002

Box 1, Folder 4

Chapter 10 1812-1839

Box 1, Folder 5

Jan. 23 1812-2001

Box 1, Folder 6

Feb. 7 1912-1930

Box 1, Folder 7

Dec. 16 - Land 1812-2003

Box 1, Folder 8

Dec. 16 - River 1813-2002

Box 1, Folder 9

Misc. 2002-2004

Box 1, Folder 10

Photos/Halftones 2003-2006

Box 1, Folder 11

Steamboat 1811-2002

Box 1, Folder 12

Lewis Bros 1853-2004

Box 1, Folder 13

Burr Conspiracy 1807-2003

Box 1, Folder 14

Library of Congress 2002

Box 1, Folder 15

General Accounts 1815-2003

Box 1, Folder 16-17

Toni Stone 1811-2003

Box 1, Folder 18

Land Fraud Scandal 1890-2002

Box 1, Folder 19

Animals 1910-2001

Box 1, Folder 20

Religious Revival 1755-2002

Box 1, Folder 21

Later Accounts 1823-2003

Box 1, Folder 22

Other Places 1823-2004

Box 1, Folder 23-24

N.M. Earthquakes 1979-2003

Box 1, Folder 25

Chronology & References 1811-1812

Box 1, Folder 26

John C. Edwards Letters 1812-2003

Box 2

Box 2, Folder 1

Annus Mirabilis/Misc. 1909-2002

Box 2, Folder 2

New Madrid 1808-2002

Box 2, Folder 3-4

George Morgan 1887-2002

Box 2, Folder 5-6

Wilkinson 1812-2002

Box 2, Folder 7

Mississippi & Louisiana 1820-2005

Box 2, Folder 8

Battle of New Orleans 1845-2004

Box 2, Folder 9

Tecumseh 1807-1972

Box 2, Folder 10

Creek War 1813-1969

Box 2, Folder 11-12

Tecumseh II/War of 1812 1812-2002

Box 2, Folder 13

Tippecanoe 1811-2002

Box 2, Folder 14

Harrison's 1812-1922

Box 2, Folder 15

National Archives II - post quake 1812

Box 2, Folder 16

Shawnee 1962-1998

Box 2, Folder 17

Before Tecumseh 1832-2004

Box 2, Folder 18

Descriptions of Tecumseh 1872-1976

Box 2, Folder 19

Speeches & Treaties 1795-2002

Box 2, Folder 20

National Archives I - pre-earthquake 2007-2013

Box 3

Box 3, Folder 1

Tecumseh, the Prophet and the Rise of the Northwest Indian - Dissertation 1973

Box 3, Folder 2-3

General James Wilkinson and Kentucky Separatism: 1784, 1798 - Dissertation 1935 September

Box 3, Folder 4

Historical Seismicity of Central United States - Appendix A 1984 August 13

Box 3, Folder 5

Contemporary Newspaper Accounts of Mississippi Valley Earthquakes of 1811-1812 circa 1970s

Box 3, Folder 6

The Winter the Mississippi Ran Backwards by Wayne John Viitanen 1972

Box 3, Folder 7

The Earthquake America Forgot 1995

Box 3, Folder 8

The Real New Madrid Earthquakes 1989

Box 3, Folder 9

Responses to Iben Browning's Prediction of a 1990 New Madrid, Missouri Earthquake 1993

Box 3, Folder 10-11

Draper Collection Facsimiles 1807-1863

"Manufacturing Hysteria" Files

Box 4

Box 4, Folder 2

Loyalty Program 1947-1988

Box 4, Folder 3

HUAC 1942-1961

Box 4, Folder 4

Lavender Scare 1950-1977

Box 4, Folder 5

Detentions - 50's 1958-2009

Box 4, Folder 6

African American - 50s 1950-1983

Box 4, Folder 7

CIA Mail Opening 1975

Box 4, Folder 8

Eisenhower 1956-1977

Box 4, Folder 9

FBI/Hoover/WWII 1919-1977

Box 4, Folder 10

McCarran Act 1950

Box 4, Folder 11

McCarthy 1950-1954

Box 4, Folder 12

1950s Red Scare 1946-2009

Box 4, Folder 13

Teachers 1949-1969

Box 4, Folder 14

1948 Spy Hearings 1948-1950

Box 4, Folder 15

Truman 1947-2007

Box 4, Folder 16-17

Current 1995-2010

Box 4, Folder 18

Woodrow Wilson and the antimilitarists 1914-1917 1970

Box 4, Folder 19

Glidden: Casualties of Caution: Alien Enemies in America, 1917-1919 1962

Box 4, Folder 20-21

Manufacturing Hysteria: Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America undated

Box 4, Folder 22

SWP 1917-2010

Box 4, Folder 23

Prager Lynching 1918-2003

Box 4, Folder 24-26

Bibliography 2006-2010

Box 4, Folder 1

FBI - HUAC - McC 1954-1973

Box 5

Box 5, Folder 1

Alien Enemy Control Limit 1944

Box 5, Folder 2

Alien Property 1942

Box 5, Folder 3

Camps 1941-2006

Box 5, Folder 4

Church Committee - WWII 1976

Box 5, Folder 5

CWRIC 1984-2009

Box 5, Folder 6

General L.A. 1942-1982

Box 5, Folder 7

German Americans 1955-2006

Box 5, Folder 8

German VAS 2000-2006

Box 5, Folder 9

GIAs 1st Person 1997-2006

Box 5, Folder 10

Hearing Boards 1942-2005

Box 5, Folder 11-12

Japanese Americans 1941-1991

Box 5, Folder 13

General U.S. 1940-2006

Box 5, Folder 14

Italian Americans 1945-2006

Box 5, Folder 15

Italian LAS 1988

Box 5, Folder 16

Japanese LAS 1944-2006

Box 5, Folder 17

Jews 1990-2006

Box 5, Folder 18

Mail Censorship 1942-2001

Box 5, Folder 19

Misc. Articles 1941-2007

Box 5, Folder 20

Seized Records 1962

Box 5, Folder 21

Mexican Repatriation 1928-2000

Box 5, Folder 22

Bibliography 2002-2004

Box 5, Folder 23-26

Catalog Search 2002-2004

Box 6

Box 6, Folder 1-2

Bibliography Folder 2 2007

Box 6, Folder 3

African Americans in WWI undated

Box 6, Folder 4

Anarchist 1908-1974

Box 6, Folder 5

Attorney General Reports 1915-1920

Box 6, Folder 6

Censorship in WWI 1908-1974

Box 6, Folder 7

Civil Liberties - WWI 1917-1964

Box 6, Folder 8

Disloyalty 1917-1918

Box 6, Folder 9

Dissidents 1917-1953

Box 6, Folder 10

Enemy Aliens - WWI 1917-2005

Box 6, Folder 11

German Americans - WWI 1917-1996

Box 6, Folder 12

Industrial Workers of the World 1917-2007

Box 6, Folder 13

Industrial Workers of the World - Idaho 1917-2007

Box 6, Folder 14

Industrial Workers of the World - Montana 1917-1918

Box 6, Folder 15

Industrial Workers of the World - Washington/Oregon 1917-1919

Box 6, Folder 16

Theodora Pollok 1918

Box 6, Folder 17

Preparedness - WWI 1913-2007

Box 6, Folder 18

Public Opinion/Mob - WWI 1917-1918

Box 6, Folder 19

Selling the War 1918

Box 6, Folder 20

Slacker Raids 1918

Box 6, Folder 21

Surveillance 1917-1960

Box 6, Folder 22

University of Texas/Academic Freedom 1917-1918

Box 6, Folder 23

Gurcke, Werner 1942-2006

Box 6, Folder 24

Fujimoto, Isao 1942-2006

Box 6, Folder 25

As You See, My Heart is Breaking - Proposals circa 2005

Box 6, Folder 26

Possible Contacts circa 2005

Box 6, Folder 27

NARA Locations 2006

Box 6, Folder 28-30

Eiserloch Family 1942-2002

Box 6, Folder 31

Gurcke Manuscript circa 2006

Box 6, Folder 32

San Francisco Photograph 1930

Box 7

Box 7, Folder 1-2

Bibliography circa 2009

Box 7, Folder 3

Cointelpro/Cominfil 1973-1981

Box 7, Folder 4

Army Intelligence 1972

Box 7, Folder 5

American Indian Movement 1975 2007

Box 7, Folder 6

Black Nationalist 1969-1974

Box 7, Folder 7

Church (Frank), Senate Committee Investigating the CIA 1976

Box 7, Folder 8

CIA 1971-1984

Box 7, Folder 9

Media Burglary 1971

Box 7, Folder 10

Communist Party 1956-1966

Box 7, Folder 11

Martin Luther King 1964-1978

Box 7, Folder 12

Nixon circa 1970s

Box 7, Folder 13

Puerto Ricans circa 1970s

Box 7, Folder 14

Socialist Workers Party circa 1960s-1970s

Box 7, Folder 15

New Left 1970-1984

Box 7, Folder 16

White Hate Groups 1970

Box 7, Folder 17

African Americans 1960-1980

Box 7, Folder 18

Bisbee, Arizona 1917-2002

Box 7, Folder 19

Bombings 1919-1920

Box 7, Folder 20

Burleson, Albert 1918-1962

Box 7, Folder 21

Centralia, Washington 1919-1921

Box 7, Folder 22

Civil Liberties 1926-1931

Box 7, Folder 23

Congressional Records Clippings undated

Box 7, Folder 24

Deportations 1919

Box 7, Folder 25

Hoover and the FBI 1922-2009

Box 7, Folder 26

Labor 1919

Box 7, Folder 27-28

Palmer Raids 1919-1949

Box 7, Folder 29

Patriotic Organizations 1919-1926

Box 7, Folder 30

Post Red Scare 1923-1926

Box 7, Folder 31

Reds 1919-1969

Box 7, Folder 32

Red Scare 1919-2003

Box 7, Folder 33

Socialists 1919

Box 7, Folder 34

Wilson, Woodrow 1917-1919

Box 8

Box 8, Folder 1

Welcker, Friedrich 1939-2006

Box 8, Folder 2

Gurcke 1941

Box 8, Folder 3

Eiserloh, Mathias 1941-1945

Box 8, Folder 4

"Here in America?: The Assembly on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians" Dvd 2006

Box 8, Folder 5

Hearings: CWRIC Title Page CD undated

Box 8, Folder 6

Enemy Alien Docs CD undated

Box 8, Folder 7

JA Prager CD undated

Box 8, Folder 8

Robert Paul Prager CD undated

Box 8, Folder 9

Alien Enemy Detention Facility: Crystal City, Texas DVD-R 2006 March 6

Scope and Contents

Running Time: 20:51

Box 8, Folder 10

Casualties of Caution, William Glidden DVD+R undated

Box 8, Folder 11

Montana Historical Society Photograph Articles 2007-0359 CD 1917 August 2

Scope and Contents

Butte Daily Post Aug 2, 1917 p1 and p12

Box 8, Folder 12

Rowe Emnis Bendetsen CWRIC undated

Box 8, Folder 13

FBI Files: The 1932 Bonus March Riots 2005

Japanese American Oral Histories

Box 9

Box 9, item 1

Tsukamoto Brothers Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 2

Manzanar Group Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 3

Zenimura Brothers Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, Item 4

Lodi Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 5

Lodi/Nayashita/Tamura Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 6

Hayashida Brothers/Goto/Ornashi, Toyama/Sanwo Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 7

Fred Oshinma Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 8

Isao/Tshkamotos Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 9

Kurima, Tsukamoto Brothers, Tahara Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, item 10

Bill Matsumoto/Tom N. Cassette Tape undated

Box 9, Item 11

Manzanar Commemorative Pin undated