Letters and Articles Used ALBA’s Institutes

  • Excerpt from interview with Evelyn Hutchins, conducted by Yale sociologist John Dollard in 1942 (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Hyman Katz to his mother (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Carl Geiser to his brother (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from James Lardner to his mother (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Bunny Rucker (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Slippery Sliwon to Samuel (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Canute Frankson (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from Sam Levinger (pdf)
  • Letter from Martha Gellhorn to Eleanor Roosevelt (pdf | doc)
  • Letter from John Lucid (pdf | doc)
  • Article on Dr. Edward Barsky (pdf | doc)
  • Hannah Arendt on refugees (Origins of Totalitarianism) (pdf | doc)
  • Father Charles Coughlin, “Persecution–Jewish and Christian.” Nov. 20, 1938 (pdf | doc)
  • Article by Jay Allen on French refugee camps (1939) (pdf | doc)
  • Article by Alvah Bessie on the murder of French writers (New Masses, 1942) (pdf | doc)
  • Article by Henry Wallace, “The Danger of American Fascism” (1944) (pdf | doc)
  • Article by Henry L. Stimson, “The Nuremberg Trial: Landmark in Law” (1947) (pdf | doc)
  • Testimony by Crawford Morgan before the Subversive Activities Control Bord (1954) (pdf | doc)
  • Article by Robert Colodny, “Spain and Vietnam” (1967) (pdf | doc)
  • Poem by Ray Durem and FBI file snapshot (published posthumously, 1964). (pdf | doc) Link to full FBI file (WUSTL).
  • Article by Milt Wolff, “The International Brigaders” (1946) (pdf | doc)
  • UN Declaration of Human Rights (pdf | doc)
  • The Truman Doctrine (excerpt) (pdf | doc)
  • Examples of Spanish Civil War photography (pdf)
  • Robert Thompson, speech (pdf)
  • Article by E. Allison Peers, “Franco’s Victory Draws Nearer” (pdf)
  • Testimonies from the Nuremberg Trials (pdf)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam,” Riverside Church, 1967 (pdf)
  • Charles Lindbergh, Des Moines speech, Sept. 11, 1941 (pdf)
  • J. Edgar Hoover, “Red Fascism” (pdf)
  • FDR, Quarantine Speech (pdf)
  • FDR, Greer Incident (pdf)
  • Letter of FDR to Armour, US ambassador in Madrid (pdf)
  • Concha Espina, “The Red Plague” (pdf)
  • Crawford Morgan, SACB Testimony (pdf)
  • Milt Wolff & Dunham (State Dept) (pdf)
  • Tim Huijgen & Paul Holthuis, “Why Am I Accused of Being a Heretic? A Pedagogical Framework for Stimulating Historical Contextualisation.”  Teaching History 158 (March 2015): 50-55. (pdf)
  • Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Sandra E. Garcia, “What is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terrorist Group?” New York Times 15 June 2020. (pdf)
  • The Spanish Civil War Letters of George and Ruth Watt (pdf)
  • “Top rights expert questions ‘double standard’ on Ukraine’s war displaced.” UN News. July 28, 2022. Web. (pdf)