The American Radicalism Collection holds over 17,000 items. It
includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemeral
material covering a wide range of viewpoints on political,
social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis in the
collection is on materials produced by radical groups - both left
and right. The collection, for example, has materials devoted to
Timothy Leary, the Black Panther Party, Neo-Nazi Organizations,
the Christian Right, and Steve Gaskin, founder of the commune the
Farm. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in
publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as
well as in resources for the study of American Labor History,
there is considerable material from the right, most notably the
Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's..
