Primary Materials ALBA’s Institute Binder

Primary Source Material from ALBA’s Institute Binder

• Excerpt from interview with Evelyn Hutchins, conducted by Yale sociologist John Dollard in 1942 (doc)
• Letter from Hyman Katz to his mother (doc)
• Letter from Carl Geiser to his brother (doc)
• Letter from James Lardner to his mother (doc)
• Letter from Bunny Rucker (doc)
• Letter from Slippery Sliwon to Samuel (doc)
• Letter from Canute Frankson (doc)
• Letter from Martha Gellhorn to Eleanor Roosevelt (doc)
• Letter from John Lucid (doc)
• Father Charles Coughlin, “Persecution–Jewish and Christian.” Nov. 20, 1938. (pdf)
• Article by Jay Allen on French refugee camps (1939) (pdf)
• Article by Alvah Bessie on the murder of French writers (New Masses, 1942) (pdf)
• Article by Henry Wallace, “The Danger of American Fascism” (1944) (pdf)
• Article by Henry L. Stimson, “The Nuremberg Trial: Landmark in Law” (1947) (pdf)
• Testimony by Crawford Morgan before the Subversive Activities Control Bord (1954) (pdf)
• Article by Robert Colodny, “Spain and Vietnam” (1967) (pdf)
• Poem by Ray Durem and FBI file snapshot (published posthumously, 1964) (pdf). Links to full FBI file (Internet Archive, WUSTL).
• Article on American Anarchists in Syria (2017) (pdf)

Letters used in lesson plans

• Letter: Lardner to Mother (1938)
• Katz and Levinger’s letters

Lesson Plan-Related Resources

• Competing Loyalties and Difficult Decisions – Final assignment and rubric
• 1.200 fosas todavía por abrir – Ejercicio de lectura
• 1200 fosas todavía por abrir – Examencito sobre la Guerra Civil Española
• 1200 fosas todavía por abrir – Rubric reading for quiz
• 1200 fosas todavía por abrir – Rubric writing assignment
• Vengar la muerte: Vengeance and the Spanish Civil War – El tragaluz