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Bibliography of Archival Sources

Archives and Special Collections

Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)

Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress

Courtney Sharpe Ward Papers, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Emergency Peace Campaign Records. Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Special Collection and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, August Meier Collection

Archival Documents

Annual Report, 1942-1943; Annual Report, 1943-1944; Report, Summer 1945. College Organization for General Service Records, 1940-1949, (Box 1, Folder 4),  Duke University Archives

Archive Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

ASU Proposals to Administration, January 1938; Dean Herring Response to ASU Demands, Jan. 31, 1938. Vice President for Student Affairs records. Herbert J. Herring series.  This collection is currently being processed; please contact Duke University Archive’s staff for assistance in accessing.   Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Chanticleer Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Christian Horizons, v. 2, #3 Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Courtney Sharpe to Douglas Corriher, April 1, 1936; Corriher to Sharpe, April 8, 1936. Courtney Sharpe Ward Papers (Box 1, Folder 20),  Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Corriher to Courtney Sharpe, February 10, 1936; Corriher to Sharpe, February 28, 1936; Corriher to Sharpe, March 12, 1936. Courtney Sharpe Ward Papers (Box 1, Folder 20).  Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Douglas Corriher to National Commander, March 31, 1936; Roosevelt Der Tatevasian to Robert Barnes, April 3, 1936; Der Tatevasian to Lewis Gorin, April 28, 1936; Der Tatevasian to Lewis Gorin, April 30, 1936; U.J.P Rushton to Der Tatevasian, May 2, 1936; Gorin to Der Tatevasian, May 6, 1936.  Veterans of Future Wars Collection (Box 5, North Carolina, Folder 1),  Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University

Duke University Chronicle Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

“Emergency Peace Campaign Flyer”  Emergency Peace Campaign Records. Swarthmore College Peace Collection . Permission to use this image must be obtained by the Curator of the Peace Collection.

Labor Relations Conference, May 7-8, 1938 Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Letter Perkins to Few; Textile Bulletin December 11, 1930; Letter Few to Perkins, December 19, 1930.  William Preston Few Records and Papers  (Box 55),  Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Patrick, Ben Moore.  The Front Line: Materials for a Study of Leadership in College and After . Durham, NC: Duke University, 1942.

Peace Agent, February 10, 1936; Peace Agent, February 24, 1936; Peace Agent, March 9, 1936; Peace Agent, March 23, 1936; Peace Agent, April 15, 1936; Courtney Sharpe Ward Papers, (Box 1, Folder 28)  Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Peace Volunteers Report, 1936; Peace Volunteers Recruitment Flyer, 1936; Peace Volunteers Report, 1937.  Emergency Peace Campaign Records, Swarthmore College Peace Collection Permission to use these documents must be obtained from the Curator of the Peace Collection.

Proposals for improving the working conditions for students who work in campus cafeterias, from the American Student Union (ASU), and the reply from Trinity College Dean of Men, Herbert J. Herring. January 11, 1938. Vice President for Student Affairs records, Herbert J. Herring series.  This collection is currently being processed; please contact Duke University Archive’s staff for assistance in accessing.   Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The Second Student Worker Conference, Durham, N.C. November 5-6, 1938, “Interracial” Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Records Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Voting in NC Manuscript. February 12, 1930.  Mary Octavine Thompson Cowper Papers  (Box 11),  Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Veterans of Future War. Advertisement from the  Duke n' Duchess , April 1936

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Boren, M. E. (2001). Student Resistance: A History of the Unruly Subject. Routledge. 

Braungart, R. G. and M. M. Braungart (1990). "Political generational themes in the American student movements of the 1930s and 1960s." Journal of Political & Military Sociology 18(1): 79-121. 

Brax, R. S. (1981). The first student movement: student activism in the United States during the 1930s. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press.

Bressler, M., et al. (1972). The Political Left on Campus and In Society: The Active Decades. Final Report. Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, D.C. Bureau of Research. 

Bynum, T. L. (2008). `Our Fight is For Right': The NAACP Youth Councils and College Chapters' Crusade for Civil Rights, 1936-1965.  PhD dissertation, Georgia State University. 

Cartwright, C. A. (1995). "Inquire. Learn. Reflect. The Evolution of Student Activism." Educational Record 76(1): 26-31. 

Cohen, Robert.  (1993). When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941. New York: Oxford University Press. 

DeMartini, J. R. (1975). "Student Activists of the 1930s and 1960s: A Comparison of the Social Base of Two Student Movements." Youth and Society 6(4): 395-422. 

Durden, Robert Franklin. (1993). The Launching of Duke University, 1924-1949. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

Eagan, E. (1981). Class, culture, and the classroom : the student peace movement of the 1930s. Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Eagan, E. (2012). "Veterans of Future Wars: A Study in Student Activism." Journal of American History 99(1): 342-U166.

Eagan, E. M. (1974). ""War is not Holy" The American Student Peace Movement in the 1930s." Peace & Change 2(3): 41-47. 

Fermaglich, K. (2004). "The Social Problems Club Riot of 1935: A Window into Antiradicalism and Antisemitism at Michigan State College." Michigan Historical Review 30(1): 93-115. 

Holden, C. J. (2008). ""Patriotism Does Not Mean Stupidity": Student Antiwar Activism at UNC in the 1930s." The North Carolina Historical Review 85(1): 29-56. 

Hughes, C. A. (1973). "Rebellion in the University-- a History of Student Activism in America." LIPSET,SM. Australian Journal of Politics and History 19(1): 153-154.

Lipset, S. M. and S. M. C. A. Rand Corp (1968). American Student Activism

Meyer, T. J. (1986). "Students from the 1930's and 60's Hold a Retrospective on Activism." Chronicle of Higher Education  32(7): 32. 

Rise, E. W. (1986). "Red Menaces and Drinking Buddies - Student Activism at the University of Florida, 1936-1939." Historian 48(4): 559-571.

Rosenthal, J. (1975). "Southern Black Student Activism: Assimilation vs. Nationalism." Journal of Negro Education 44(2): 113-129. 

Schnell, R. L. (1976). National Activist Student Organizations in American Higher Education, 1905-1944. Social Foundations of Education, 7. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, School of Education. 

Schnell, R. L. (1977). "Expressive and Instrumental Politics in the American Student Movement: the 1930s as a Case Study." Paedagogica Historica 17(2): 386-421. 

Towns, W. C. (2006). The Student Union Movement at the University of Kansas, 1913-1970. University of Kansas, Teaching and Leadership. 

 van Dyke, N. (2003). "Crossing Movement Boundaries: Factors that Facilitate Coalition Protest by American College Students, 1930-1990." Social Problems 50(2): 226. 

Whisenhunt, Donald W. (2011). Veterans of Future Wars: a Study in Student Activism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.