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Cold War Resources: Browse Microform Title: Adolph A. Berle Diary, 1937-1971 Author: Adolph A. Berle Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E748.B47A37 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Adolf A. Berle was an influential member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Brain Trust" during the New Deal. The diary chronicles his New Deal, World War II and Post-War activities as Chairman of the Planning Commission of the City of New York, Assistant Secretary of State (1938-1944), U..S. Ambassador to Brazil, and as an advisor for the Twentieth-Century Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and the State Department on South American Affairs. His war-time duties at the State Department included post-war planning, coordinating intelligence activities, monitoring international financial trends and speechwriting for the President and other administration officials. Title: Americans for Democratic Action Papers, 1932-1965 Author: Americans for Democratic Action Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: HS2325.A5 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: The Papers are divided into nine series: two Administrative files, a chapter file, a convention file, a legislative file, a political file, a public relations file, a campus division file and serials. The guide provides a detailed description of each series and indicates the appropriate reel listings (McKeldin Reference HS2325.A51 FOLIO). Among the important leaders represented in the correspondence are Hubert Humphrey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Joseph L.Rauh, Walter Reuther, Francis Biddle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Paul Sifton. Title: CIA Research Reports: Latin America, 1946-1976 Author: CIA Publication Date: 1982 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: F1414.L371 1982 and F1414.L371 1982 guide Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Latin America TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: CIA Research Reports were prepared for internal use and for others such as the president and the National Security Council. Title: CIA Research Reports: Middle East, 1946-1976 Author: CIA Publication Date: 1983 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DS63.M515 and DS63.M515 guide Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Africa & the Middle East TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: CIA Research Reports were prepared for internal use and for others such as the president and the National Security Council. Title: CIA Research Reports: The Soviet Union, 1946-1976 Author: CIA Publication Date: 1982 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DK274.A41 and DK274.A41 guide Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: CIA Research Reports were prepared for internal use and for others such as the president and the National Security Council. Title: Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration, 1963 - 1969. Parts 1-3. Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: KF4749.C68 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1960s Description: This collection contains White House Central Files, including internal memoranda circulated between the President and his advisors and correspondence between the Johnson administration and persons outside the White House; White House Aides Files (working papers of presidential assistants); administrative history of and White House Central Files about the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and interviews with both public officials and prlvate citizens who were civil rights activists. The index to this collection (McKeldin Reference KF4749.C68 INDEX ) must be used for access. It includes subject sections as well as guides to the reels for each part. Title: Claude A. Barnett Papers: The Associated Negro Press, 1918-1967. Part One: The Associated Negro Press News Releases, 1928-1964 Publication Date: 1984 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: PN4882.5.C525 1984 Subject: Culture & Society GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This collection from the Chicago Historical Society contains the available news releases of the Associated Negro Press (ANP) from 1928 to 1964. Founded by Claude A. Barnett in 1919, the ANP was the largest and longest running news service designed to provide black newspapers in the U.S. with news, commentary, literary pieces, and other material of interest to black citizens. The collection is valuable as a record of black life in America. The guide (McKeldin Reference PN4882.5.C525 1984 GUIDE FOLIO ) provides a detailed chronological listing for the material on each reel of microfilm. Title: Columbia University Oral History Collection: International Affairs and Diplomacy Author: Columbia University Oral History Collection Publication Date: 1979 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E744.C66 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Multiple TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This collection includes interviews with people who have contributed significantly to society or who were close affiliates of world leaders. The microfiche are arranged alphabetically by author. The index is a dictionary catalog which integrates references and information about people, topics and organizations (McKeldin Reference E169.1.C65 1979). Title: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Papers, 1959-1976 Format: Microform Location: Nonprint Media Call No./URL/Item No.: E185.61.C66 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This collection contains the papers of COREis Western and Southern Regional Offices and the records of the Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial Equality (SEDFRE). During the 1960s, CORE was instrumental in the battle against segregation and disenfranchisement in the South, and police brutality as well as discrimination in the North. Its methods were based on Ghandian nonviolent direct action. CORE played a major role in mobilizing grassroots activists during this period. The guides (McKeldin Reference E185.61.C66 GUIDE PARTS 1-3) must be used for access to this collection. They do not contain subject indexes. Title: Daily Report: Soviet Union/Central Eurasia Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Publication Date: 1971 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Folios Call No./URL/Item No.: PrEx 7.10:FBIS-SOV- Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Translation of news and radio broadcasts. Title: Daily Report: Western Europe Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Publication Date: 1974 Format: Microform Location: Government Documents Call No./URL/Item No.: PrEx 7.10:FBIS-WEU- Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Western Europe TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: English translations of news and radio broadcasts. Title: Documents of the National Security Council, 1947-1977 Author: Paul Kesaris, Editor Publication Date: 1980 Format: Microform Location: Government Documents Call No./URL/Item No.: UA23.N375 1980 and UA23.N375 1980 guide Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: The broad range of documents include formal policy papers, progress reports, background documents "P" files, "Mill" papers, National Security Council actions, national security action memoranda, and national security study memoranda. Title: Earl Browder Papers, 1891-1975 Author: Earl Browder Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: HX84.B6983 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Browder's correspondence, subject files, legal files, writings files and manuscript copies of his speeches and articles are included in this collection. In addition, the papers contain pamphlets, resolutions, reports and press releases from the Communist Party of the USA, and published and manuscript writings from many important Party members as well as substantial runs of several journals. Title: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Collected Writings, 1901-1956 Author: Albert Einstein Publication Date: 1973 Format: Microform Location: Nonprint Media Call No./URL/Item No.: QC16.E5A2 1973 Subject: Science & Technology GeographicArea: Multiple TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This collection constitutes the first edition in any form of the complete works of Albert Einstein. It contains more than 600 items. The index includes a section which affords access to the writings by title and subject (McKeldin Reference QC16.E5A21 1973). Title: Great Britain Foreign Office: United States Correspondence 1930-1948 Author: Foreign Office, Great Britain Publication Date: 1930 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E183.8.G7G71, E183.8.G7G72, E183.8.G7G73 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Multiple TimePeriod: 1940s Description: This collection is officially known as British Foreign Office File 371. It is the principal British diplomatic file on the United States throughout and after the war years. The indexes (in McKeldin Reference under the same call number) are arranged by year and file number with subject matter described. To locate an item one must note page number, volume number, reel number and year. This correspondence contains detailed reports which reveal the process of American transition from post-World War I isolationism to world supremacy. It covers Anglo-American relations, conduct of the war, political and social events, economic policy and plans for postwar reconstruction. Title: JPRS Report Soviet Union/Central Eurasia: Foreign Military Review Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Publication Date: 1987 Format: Microform Location: Government Documents Call No./URL/Item No.: PrEx 7.13:JPRS-UFM- Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Translation of: Zarubezhnoe voennoe obozrenie, publ. in Moscow by the Ministry of Defense. Title: JPRS Report, Soviet Union/Central Eurasia: Aviation & Cosmonautics Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Publication Date: 1987 Format: Microform Location: Government Documents Call No./URL/Item No.: PrEx 7.13:JPRS-UAC- Subject: Science & Technology GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Translation of selected articles from: Aviatsiia i kosmonavtika, published in Moscow by Military Publishing House. Title: Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents Author: National Archives and Records Administration Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: QC773.ALM3 Subject: Science & Technology GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1940s Description: This collection includes material on the diplomatic history of the Manhattan Project as well as the daily log, the diary of Colonel Mathias, and reports on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Manhattan Engineering District, later known as the Manhattan Project, was formed upon the recommendation of Vannevar Bush to President Roosevelt in 1942. It was dedicated to the development of three major fission processes and was responsible for the design of the atomic bomb, under the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In addition, the Project was involved in related intelligence gathering operations, diplomatic missions and the location of uranium ore. The orginal documents are held by the National Archives. Restricted items have not been microfilmed. The Guide locates documents as they are arranged on the reels and gives a detailed breakdown of the materials in the collection; there is no cumulative subject index. (McKeldin Reference QC773.ALM31). Title: Martin Luther King, Jr., FBI File Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E185.97.K5M268 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1960s Description: This collection is a heavily censored reproduction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's file on Martin Luther King, Jr. Deletions fit into several categories. First, the F.B.I. was authorized to delete any material related solely to its own internal rules and practices. Also it was allowed to delete any records which would invade someone's personal privacy or any material which would reveal the identity of any confidential source of information. Additionally, as a result of a 1977 court order, all recordings, transcripts of recordings or descriptions of recordings which originated with F.B.I. wiretaps on Martin Luther King have been removed from the jurisdiction of the F.B.I. They were handed over to the National Archives under a court order directing that these materials remain confidential for fifty years, till the year 2027. Index: MCK REF E185.95.K5M268 INDEX. Title: Memorial Collection of Newspapers on Microfilm Chronicling Events of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22-26, 1963 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: BM519 Subject: Multiple Subjects GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1960s Description: This collection includes articles about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 and events following, including the arrest and slaying of Lee Harvey Oswald, the arrest of Jack Ruby and funeral coverage of the two deaths. Newspapers from various geographical areas were filmed alphabetically by state for this collection. There is no index; however, the label on each reel box designates the state whose newspapers are covered on that reel. Title: Messages Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. Churchill 1939-1945, and Related Materials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Author: National Historical Publications Commission Publication Date: 1973 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E742.5.R58 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Multiple TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Roll 1. Map room papers, Sept. 1939-July 1942.--roll 2. Map room papers Aug. 1942-July 1943.--roll 3. Map room papers Aug. 1943-Feb. 1944.--roll 4. Map room papers, March-Aug. 1944.--roll 5. Map room papers Sept. 1944-April 1945.--roll 6. President's secretary's file, President's personal file, messages from other files and collections. Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 11: Latin America, 1941-1961 Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1979 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: F1414.L37 1979 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Latin America TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Indexed by A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Report: Latin America (McK Ref F1414.L37 1979 Guide). Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 11: The Soviet Union, 1950-1961 Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1978 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DK274.S67 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: 1950s Description: Indexed by The Soviet Union, 1951-1961 Supplement Guide (McK Ref DK274.S67 Guide). Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 2: Postwar Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1977 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DS518.1.U5 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania TimePeriod: 1940s Description: 6 reels; accompanied by a guide and index. Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 3: China and India Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1977 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DS774.C456 reel 1 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: China and India (McK Ref DS774.C456 Guide). Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 5: Postwar Europe Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1977 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: D824.P688 reel 1-10 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Multiple TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : Postwar Europe (Mck Ref D824.P688 Guide). Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 6: Soviet Union Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1977 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DK267.S68 reel 1 - 8 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Microfilm reproduction of Office of Strategic Services and State Department intelligence reports on Russia, 1941-1949. Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : the Soviet Union (McK Ref DK.S68 Guide) . Title: O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports Part 7: The Middle East Author: O.S.S./State Department Publication Date: 1977 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DS42.M54 reel 1-3 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Africa & the Middle East TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Indexed by: A Guide to O.S.S./State Department Intelligence and Research Reports : the Middle East (McK Ref DS42.M54 Guide). Title: Occupation of Japan Publication Date: 1942 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: D802.J3022 1942 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania TimePeriod: 1940s Description: This collection reproduces English language archival source materials covering the entire occupation period of Japan by the U.S. during WWII. The documents start with wartime preparations and go through negotiation of the 1951 peace treaty. The documents are from the National Archives, Presidential Libraries, and collections of private papers. The types of material included are official military, intelligence, diplomatic and foreign policy publications, diaries, interviews, and minutes of meetings. he indexes provide title, date, and collation information for each document. Entries also include special annotations on format or contents of a document or document series, list of subject headings, names of organizations, and name of issuing source under which the document is indexed. Title: Pamphlets in American History: Communism Publication Date: HX81 Format: Microform Location: Government Documents Call No./URL/Item No.: HX81.P3 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This is a collection of 483 political pamphlets, written by communists and other leftists. Most of these pamphlets were written during the 1930's and 1940's. Some of the materials reproduced in this collection were written by such prominent non-American communists as Mao Tse Tung, Leon Trotsky, Maksim Litvinov, and Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria of Spanish Civil War fame). Most of them, though, were written by prominent American communists such as Earl Browder and William Z. Foster and such well known American leftists as novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. There is no guide to this microfilm collection nor have the titles it includes yet been added to the UMCP Libraries automated catalog. To use it effectively one must use the card catalog. In the card catalog, author, subject and title cards have been entered for each of the individual pamphlets which make up Pamphlets in American History: Communism. Title: Papers from the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives: Part 1 - Kennedy Administration Policy Toward Cuba Author: Kermit Hall Publication Date: 1999 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E841 .P36 1999 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1960s Description: "Consists of formerly Eyes Only, Top Secret, records from the highest levels of President Kennedy's administration." Documents and records from the National Security Council (NSC), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of the Army, and papers of Robert F. Kennedy, George Ball, Gordon Chase, Joseph Califano, Harlan Cleveland, C. Douglas Dillon, Richard N. Goodwin, Roger Hilsman, Robert W. Komer, Pierre Salinger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Theodore C. Sorenson, Chalmers Roberts, Teodoro Moscoso, and oral histories of Kirby Jones, Richard Bissell, Lord Harlech, Alexis Johnson, Laura Bergquist Knebel, Edward Lansdale, John Scali, David Shoup, George Smathers, Bromley Smith, and Maxwell Taylor. Consult the print guide and index in McKeldin Reference Stacks - E841 .P36 2000 Guide. Title: Papers of the NAACP. Part 3. The Campaign for Educational Equality: Legal Department and Central Office Records, 1913-1950 Author: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: E185.5.N275A3 1982 Subject: Multiple Subjects GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: This collection includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, transcripts, and legal briefs pertaining to the NAACP's Campaign for Educational Equality. The papers document the development, litigation, resolution, and aftermath of attempts by Blacks to obtain equal education. The collection focuses on: Admission of Blacks into the graduate and professional programs in southern state universities when those programs did not exist at the Black state colleges; and equalization of public school education at the elementary and secondary levels, which included equalization of school facilities, school term length, and teachers' salaries. Landmark cases in the fight for desegregation are fully documented. The NAACP Campaign for Educational Equality sets the stage for the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. The documents are arranged chronologically by broad subject areas, which can be found in the printed guides (McKeldin Reference E185.5.N275A3 1982 GUIDE). Title: President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights Author: Committe on Civil Rights (Truman) Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: J82.B3 1964 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1940s Description: This collection includes materials from the Harry S. Truman Library relating to the work of the above mentioned committee, which presented a report to the President in 1947 entitled To Secure These Rights. The Committee criticized segregation in its many aspects and offered thirty-four recommendations for federal intervention in order to eliminate it from the U.S. civil service and the armed forces. Documents from seven manuscript sources are included in this collection: the Tom Clark Papers, the George M. Elsey Papers, the Frank P. Matthews Papers, the Philleo Nash Papers, and three record groups in the Harry S. Truman Papers. Of special note is the active correspondence of the Committee with groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the American Jewish Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union and the American and National Bar Associations. The guide to this collection (McKeldin Reference E185.61.P674 index) must be used for access. It does not contain a subject index. A large proportion of the collection consists of correspondence, testimony before the Committee, transcripts of its meetings and working papers of the Committee. Title: Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Part I, 1942-1945 : The Soviet Union Author: Joint Chiefs of Staff Publication Date: 1979 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DK267.R431 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: 1940s Description: Indexed by: A Guide to Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part I, 1942-1945 : The Soviet Union (McK Ref DK267.R431 Guide). Title: Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part II , 1946-53: The Soviet Union Author: Joint Chiefs of Staff Publication Date: 1979 Format: Microform Location: McKeldin Microform Call No./URL/Item No.: DK267.R44 Subject: Military & Intelligence GeographicArea: Soviet Union TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods Description: Indexed by A Guide to Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Part II, 1946-1953: Soviet Union (Mck Ref DK267.R44 Guide). Title: Rosenberg-Sobell Case Revisited Author: Facets Video Publication Date: 1987 Format: Microform Location: Nonprint Media Call No./URL/Item No.: HX84.R6R64 1987 Subject: Politics GeographicArea: United States TimePeriod: 1950s Description: An investigation of the conspiracy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Investigates both the case itself and the political climate in which it occurred.

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