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The dinner programs from various Republican events include programs from the 15th District Republican Club Dinners, the Ivy Club Dinners and other Republican events. The pictures contained in these programs would be valuable, as it would allow one to put faces to many names that would remain faceless otherwise. One can also find the names of the Republican Club's officers.

These booklets provide a quick reference guide for the legislature of the State of New York. Listed in these booklets are the members of the state legislature and a list of the members of the standing committees of the senate. These lists give the dates of service, addresses, district served, and committees on which each member sat.

The Roll Books of the Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Republican State Committee of New York give the names of those who served on the Committee. A handy reference guide, these pocket-sized brochures list the NYRSC chairs, chairs of the executive committee, the secretary, treasurer, and chief clerk and the full New York Republican State Committee. The Roll Books of the Delegates and Alternate Delegates to the Republican State Convention list the delegates from each district in each county of New York that served as delegates and alternates to the Convention.

Although this series contains primarily memoranda and essays generated for The RAND Corporation by Hans Speier or under his direction, general materials and correspondence pertaining to RAND, as well as some essays by others are also included in this series.

This series contains Speier's log (diary) notes from trips to Germany taken for The RAND Corporation, the people he met and interviewed, places visited, etc. Sections of the log notes served as a basis for his autobiography From the Ashes of Disgrace: A Journal from Germany 1945-1955.

This series is arranged into three sections: the first contains Speier's early writings, including poetry, aphorisms and short stories from the 1920s and 1930s. The largest section is made up of Speier's essayistic writings and contains a number of pieces written during the 1940s when Speier was employed by the Office of War Information and the Department of State. The last section contains Speier's book reviews.

This collection holds the minutes of the monthly meetings of the Executive Committee to the State Normal School. The entires in these two volumes detail some aspects of the school's budget, listed graduates of each sememster and includes a commencement program from that semester. The minutes also include basic school administration like the hiring and firing of professors, or proposed maintenence and expansion of the school's buildings. For the second volume there is a seperate book acting as an index to major people and events at the Normal School from 1880 to 1909.

This subseries contains some documents related to van den Haag's position as John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University from 1982-1988. There is a Fordham Bulletin, course descriptions and schedules, and grant contract expenditure reports. The Olin Lecture material is correspondence related to van den Haag's duties in setting up a speaker for the John M. Olin Lecture in 1983.

This subseries contains lecture notes handwritten by Ernest van den Haag on yellow legal size paper. This paper is very acidic and brittle. Van den Haag lectured on sociology and psychology while at the New School for Social Research from 1953 to 1980. The courses include Philosophy of Personality, The Individual in Crisis, and Popular Culture. his lectures touched on many topics in social science including democracy, postulates, and many aspects of American culture. Some materials contained in this subseries were collected in the years leading up to his lecture career including the 1930s and 1940s, but most of the lecture material is from the early 1950s through 1981.

This subseries contains readings from 1993-1997 authored by professors from various universities addressed to members of colloquiums at New York University School of Law. These readings are entitled Colloquium on Constitutional Theory and Colloquium on the Study of Law, Philosophy, and Social Theory. These readings are arranged alphabetically by title and chronologically thereafter by semester and year. It is not clear what role van den Haag had in these colloquiums, but at this time, he was Adjunct Professor of Social Philosophy at the New York University School of Law.

This series consists of publications about environmental issues and geographic regions outside of New York. Reports are authored by federal, state, county and city governments and their agencies, universities, and non-profit organizations. Publications discuss broader national issues such as chemicals in local communities, transportation and American rivers. However, the majority of reports address specific geographic areas and their respective problems. This includes pollution in Alaska, Great Lakes water quality and overall health, wildlife habitat in Illinois, toxic pollution in Rhode Island, and fauna and sediments in the Detroit River. Files also may include supplemental materials related to the respective report such as an accompanying cover letter.

This subseries documents ASLF's projects in the Midwest states, including: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In the Midwest ASLF sought to clean up the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River region. The case against Koch Refining Co. in Minnesota, removed a major source of toxins in the Mississippi River and ensured compliance for many years afterwards. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the request of local activists ASLF researched DMRs and discovered almost a quarter of Fort Wayne industries' had a history of CWA violations.

This series contains reports and other official publications about issues affecting New York State. Federal, state, county and city governments and their agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, published the majority of these reports. Universities and non-profit organizations issued a smaller number. For reports specifically written by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, please see Series 2, Subseries 3.

This sub-series consists of material surrounding the publication of the book Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice, which Dr. Green co-wrote with Dr. Frankie Bailey, published in 1999. The series includes publishing information, materials used in the writing of the book, publicity materials and finally, book reviews and mentions of the book.

This sub-series contains issues of The South End Scene, a newspaper Dr. Green founded in 1976 as Executive Director of the Trinity Institution in Albany. Alice Green's writing, most often in the form of editorials, is found throughout these newspapers. The first available issue, dated 1976, is in newsletter form.This sub-series does not represent the entirety of The South End Scene. These are original copies. There are photocopies of each issue in the collection available for use by researchers in addition to microfilm for issues published between July 1978 and July 1985 in the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives Microforms Collection.

This sub-series includes records related to Citzen Action's involvement in political, racial, social, and economic issues. Many of these issues were related to clean money campaigns and health care. The sub-series includes pamphlets, flyers, letters to Congressmen, news releases, and VHS tapes. The VHS tapes include video footage of members of Citizen Action lobbying, speeches from politicans at their galas and meetings, and other programs that the organization hosted. Some folders in this sub-series are restricted, so please consult an archivist before use. Two folders are closed due to attorney client privlige.

This series contains documents that Citizen Action refered to when working on social, political, racial, and economic issues. This series contains news articles, information guides, workbooks, court cases, and documents related to political candidates and their campaigns. There is one folder that is restricted. Please consult an archivsit before use.

Most of the minutes of SFT meetings are interfiled: regular, executive committee and building directors' meeting filed together chronologically. Regular meetings are uncommon, usually consisting of an annual meeting at the beginning of the school year. After 1979, the minutes are separated first by type of meeting and then chronologically.

Includes the general newsletter of SFT and occasional specialized newsletters, bulletins, and flyers. These extras include circa B. News and circa B. Views (1967-68), which announced the activities of the Collective Bargaining Committee. Strike bulletins (1975) are filed in the subject files.

The subject file includes general files (1944-53), which contain various types of material (bulletins, correspondence, etc.) in chronological order; president's files (1942-55) which are general files kept by the SFT president; contracts (1967-87); photographs (1975, 1978-79); and correspondence, flyers, photographs and picket bulletins pertaining to the 1975 strike (1975-76).

This subseries consists of a collection of materials by local, state, and national activist groups and coalitions, particularly those involved with pesticides or some other environmental / health issues. Some worked closely with NYCAP, while in other cases it was not clear. Included are materials produced by these groups, and well as NYCAP's correspondence with them.

This sub-series contains some of Lowe's published and unpublished studies of economics, sociology, and current affairs. Highlights include a lengthy essay written in the form of a letter to his close friend Hans Jonas, unpublished materials that he apparently drafted while writing Has Freedom a Future?, and a complete typescript of the book itself.

This sub-series consists of notes for lectures that Lowe delivered at various academic institutions and before various community groups. Some of these speeches were given before the New School's Study Group on Germany (1942-43) and its General Seminar, an interdisciplinary forum at which faculty members discussed their work.