This exhibit includes 55 mounted images and 99 35mm slides taken during the brigade’s time in Nicaragua, documenting the brigade’s construction work and providing a valuable visual record of life in Nicaragua during the Contra war. Used in public talks about Contruyamos Juntos, the collection includes exhibit labels that explain the purpose and activity of the brigade, the history of Nicaragua, and the Contra attack in January 1986.

This collection consists of photocopies of records selected from the Notarial Archives in Mexico City from the years 1829, 1847, and 1875, along with data tabulation sheets and computer print-outs.

Centered in western Massachusetts and concentrated in the last decade of her life (2000-2010), the Nancy Foster Papers includes a record of one woman’s grassroots activism for peace, civil liberties, and social justice. The issues reflected in the collection range from the assault on civil liberties after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to immigration, hunger and poverty, the Iraq Wars, and the conflict in Central America during the 1980s, and much of the material documents Nancy’s involvement with local organizations such as the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. The collection also contains a valuable record of Nancy’s participation in local politics in Amherst, beginning with the records of the 1972 committee which was charged with reviewing the Town Meeting.

Background on Nancy Foster

A committed advocate for peace and social justice, Nancy Foster spent decades working through, and sometimes against, the political system to effect positive social change. Born in Duluth, Minn., on Dec. 24, 1928, Nancy Elizabeth (Abbott) Foster was raised in the small town of Warwick, New York. The middle of three daughters born to Frank and Lorena Abbott, her political views were shaped by the hardships of the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and the Second World War, and by her father’s faith that it was possible for government to help ordinary people.

A superior student, Nancy was keenly attuned to current events from an early age, writing her senior thesis in high school on the atomic bomb and delivering a valedictory address in 1946 where she called for keeping atomic energy under the control of the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. One year after graduating from Swarthmore with a degree in economics and political science (1950), Nancy married her college classmate, John Foster, and moved to Cambridge, Mass. While John pursued graduate study in biochemistry at Harvard, followed by a postdoctoral position at MIT, Nancy was employed in local social agencies, studied in the School of Social Work at Boston University, and gave birth to the first of the couple’s two children. When their lives were uprooted after John was ordered to Japan to fulfill his military service, Nancy remained busy. While overseas, she carried out the research for her master’s degree in social work, collecting material on marriages between U.S. servicemen and Japanese women, and she gave birth to the couple’s second child.

The Fosters returned to Massachusetts in 1958, settling in Needham. It was there that Nancy’s activism quickened. Energized by local protests against housing discrimination, Nancy volunteered for the Needham Fair Housing Committee, just the second such organization in the Commonwealth, and she was appointed secretary after attending only her first meeting. Just as significantly for the future course of the Fosters’ activism, Nancy and John found themselves deeply impressed by the commitment to social justice exemplified by the Unitarian minister at the First Parish in Needham, sparking what would become a lifelong religious affiliation.

From Needham, John went on to work for two and half years with the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., and characteristically, Nancy became active in the local community. Working as a counselor in a clinic for pregnant teenagers, Nancy was witness to some of the early civil rights riots in the city and during Martin Luther King’s March on Washington, she worked a tent on the Mall dispensing “soul help.” By the time the Fosters returned to Massachusetts in 1969, settling in Amherst, Nancy’s involvements seemed only to increase. As a member of the League of Women Voters, she helped to organize a study of the executive branch of town government, leading her in turn into a stint on Town Meeting that eventually extended fourteen years. When the nuclear freeze movement took hold in the Pioneer Valley in the early 1980s, she took up the challenge of organizing against nuclear escalation; in particular, leading local resistance to Reagan-era plans for the mass relocation of urban residents to small towns in the event of nuclear war. Her efforts to raise the issues before the Amherst Select Board and local citizenry resulted in the Board voting against town participation in the project, and her methods for raising awareness served as a model for other towns across the country.

Her highest profile work during this period centered on opposition to the Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN), which was intended to serve as a military communications system in the aftermath of a nuclear war. When Nancy learned that the Air Force was planning to build a GWEN communications tower in Amherst in 1985, she invited the colonel in charge of the program to address the town and explain the reasons for the project. Despite the skepticism of the Select Board, Nancy raised the issue in Town Meeting and publicly presented the counterpoint to the colonel’s presentation. Working closely with her colleague Lois Barber, and with the support of local Republican representative Silvio Conte, Nancy saw opposition to the GWEN system spread widely in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, eventually leading Congress to force the Air Force to suspend the program until a thorough study of the impact of electromagnetic radiation on the public was completed.

In later years, Nancy continued to press for social justice locally and regionally, working closely with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union, and with local activist organizations such as SAGE and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst. Her antiwar work accompanied work on a host of related issues ranging from hunger and economic inequality to opposing the Patriot Act and the erosion of civil liberties in the years following the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. A regular presence at the Amherst July 4th parades, she was noted for carrying placards promoting civil liberties, earning a senior activist award from the Amherst Human Rights Commission. In addition to her social and political activism, Nancy was a beloved family member and the center of a large circle of friends. She died in Amherst on June 24, 2010, and was survived by her John and children.

Contents of Collection

Inventory of Collection

Amherst, Mass. Select Board	2007		Box 4
Amherst, Mass. Select Board: letter on torture	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass. Select Board: Resolution to Restore the Rule of Law	2005-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2002		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2003-2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Civil liberties	2004-2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Human Rights Commission	2002-2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Human Rights Commission	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library rules	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library Trustees (Patriot Act)	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Jones Library: Patriot Act	2002-2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2007-2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2002		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2004		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade	2009		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade.: posters	2003		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade: chronology	2005		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: July 4 parade: op ed	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: League of Women Voters	2008		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: questions for Town Manager	2005-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Rules and orders regulating the use of the Town Common and/or paved areas	2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town Meeting Study Committee	1972-1974		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	1972		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2008 Fall		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2008 Spring		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings	2009		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings (newsclippings)	1972		Box 5
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings comprehensive planning	2002-2006		Box 4
Amherst, Mass.: Town meetings Handbook	2007		Box 4
Civil Liberties Restoration Act	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: 9/11 Commission bills	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Academic Freedom HR 3077	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: ACLU Conference: Lobbying congress	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: Fund appeals	2002-2005		Box 1
Civil liberties: ACLU: internet articles	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Amherst, Mass.	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: calling torturers to account	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: CLEAR act	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Bill of Rights Defense Committee	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: civil liberties	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: civil liberties miscellaneous	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: clippings	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Magna carta	Undated		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Massachusetts ACLU	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: meeting with John Olver	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: Patriot Act, citizens’ rights	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Clippings and basic documents: petitions to Congress	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: concerns for Barack Obama	2009		Box 5
Civil liberties: Congressional correspondence	2001-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc.	Undated		Box 1
Civil liberties: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: amending FISA	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: clergy participation	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: consults DOVER/SAGE	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: co-sponsors	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: flyer, handouts, program	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: literature for forum	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: literature for forum	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: Magda Ahmad’s folder with questions turned in	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: money	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: notes, correspondence	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: panelists	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: panelists	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: possibilities for panel	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: public schools in Amherst	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: publicity	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Civil Liberties: videotaping	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on film	2004-2006		Box 1
Civil liberties: Forum on Film: Unconstitutional	2005		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: ACLU Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: ACLU Conference notes	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: changing standards for asylum	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: civil liberties handouts	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Federal, state, and local cooperation with the Immigration and Naturalization Service	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: N-Seers	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Patriot Act	2001-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: police surveillance, CAT eyes program	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: Total Information Awareness Act	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of detainees	2002-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of immigrants	2002-2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Immigrants and detainees: treatment of protesters	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Miscellaneous	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Bill of Rights Defense Committee National Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: civil liberties resolutions, other towns	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Greenfield Community College Conference	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Northampton Action: Northampton resolutions	2002		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act II: background	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act II: Victory	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act Section 215: defeat	2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act: bills to reprint	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Patriot Act: historical parallels	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: Police involvement in immigration law: background	2002-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: Press Freedom	2003		Box 1
Civil liberties: SAFE act	2003-2004		Box 1
Civil liberties: The War on Terror and the Constitution	2008		Box 5
Civil liberties: Thoughts on civil liberties; know your rights	2002-2003		Box 1
Correspondence: Carson, James E. and Jean	1989-2005		Box 2
Correspondence: Guevara, Jose	1995-2001		Box 2
Correspondence: Hennessey, Rich and Ann	2004		Box 2
Correspondence: Leonard, Marcia	2001-2005		Box 2
Correspondence: Morey, Susan	2001-2003		Box 2
Correspondence: Tillman, Ina	2000-2001		Box 2
Cuba	1998		Box 2
Disaster relief: Afghanistan relief (Oxfam)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: African AIDS service	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: El Salvador (earthquake)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: Haiti (flooding)	2004		Box 3
Disaster relief: Honduras (Hurricane)	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Honduras (Hurricane) press coverage	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Hurricane	1998		Box 3
Disaster relief: Hurricane Mitch	1999		Box 3
Disaster relief: India (earthquake)	2001		Box 3
Disaster relief: Tsunami	2004-2005		Box 3
El Salvador newsclippings	1980-1981		Box 5
El Salvador: Amherst Committee	1981		Box 5
El Salvador: correspondence with politicians (Silvio O. Conte, Paul Tsongas)	1981-1983		Box 5
El Salvador: Ecumenical memorial service, Amherst, Mass.	1981		Box 5
El Salvador: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee	1981		Box 5
Elderhostel: Central Europe	2000		Box 2
Elderhostel: record of trips	2000		Box 2
Elderhostel: Sicily	1999		Box 2
Elderhostel: Spain, part 1	1997		Box 2
Elderhostel: Spain, part 2	1997		Box 2
Elderhostel: Turkey	2001		Box 2
Foster, Nancy. Resume of political activities	2007		Box 5
Host family application	1997		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World	1999-2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World	2004-2005		Box 4
Hunger: Bread for the World	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: background	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: background from Frank Holmquist	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: Hunger to Harvest	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: Hunger to Harvest materials	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Africa: updates	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: AIDS in Africa	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Congressional resolution (Jim Stipe)	2001-2002		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Drop the debt	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Interfaith Committee	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: interfaith meeting	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Massachusetts Annual Gathering	2001		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: meetings with John Olver	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Bread for the World: Project Bread	2001		Box 2
Hunger: Bread for the World: Senate Bill 583 (Kennedy-Specter) Nutritional assistance for working families and seniors	2001		Box 3
Hunger: debt (master copies)	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Debt relief Amherst	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief handouts	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief legislation	1999		Box 3
Hunger: debt relief talk (with Carmen Diana Deere and Jim Stipe)	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Food bank, Bread for the World pamphlets	1999		Box 3
Hunger: Hunger and debt relief legislations	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Interfaith Committee for Forgiveness of Global Debt	1999-2000		Box 3
Hunger: Lay Academy for Oecumenical Studies	2000		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst offerings of letters and service on debt relief	1999-11		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-10		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-05		Box 3
Hunger: Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Offering of letters	2001-04		Box 3
Impeachment	2006-2008		Box 5
Interfaith Coalition	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq sanctions protest	1999		Box 4
Iraq talk	2001		Box 3
Iraq War mobilization	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: articles	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: letters to Congress	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: MoveOn.org	2002		Box 4
Iraq War: opposition to invasion	2002-2003		Box 4
Iraq War: PTSD	2009		Box 5
Iraq War: response to terrorism	2001-09		Box 4
Israeli-Palestinian conflict	2002		Box 4
La Paz Centro Sister City Project	1999-2001		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	2002-2003		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	1999-2000		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections	2001		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 letters to the editor	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 literature	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 press coverage	1998		Box 3
Massachusetts Voters for Clean Elections: Question 2 workshops	1998		Box 3
Nuclear war pamphlets (includes photo of Nancy Foster, 2001)	1982		Box 5
Peace: Israeli-Palestinian peace	2002-2003		Box 3
Peace: Vigil for Peace: 9/11/2002	2002		Box 4
Randall Forsberg for Senate campaign	2002		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2007-2009		Box 5
SAGE meetings	2004-2005		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2002		Box 4
SAGE meetings	2003		Box 4
SAGE: opposition to tax breaks to millionaires	2004		Box 4
SAGE: table on the Town Commons	2005		Box 4
Sojourner’s Magazine, Moral Response to Terrorism	2001		Box 4
State and local political: charter change	2002		Box 2
State and local political: nuclear arms under Bush	2002		Box 2
State and local political: Robie Hubley for Select Board	2003		Box 2
Torture: articles of interest (including Christopher H. Pyle)	2004-2009		Box 5
Torture: letters to John Olver and letters to the editor	2009		Box 5
Torture: Pyle, Christopher H. talk (Tyll Van Geel)	2009		Box 5
Torture: Pyle, Christopher H.: writings	2004-2007		Box 5
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee	Undated		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2007-2009		Box 5
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2004-2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	1999-2000		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-11		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-10		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-09		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-05		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-05		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-04		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-04		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-03		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002-02		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-02		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee	2003-01		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: activities	2000-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: activities	2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: agenda	2002-01		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: annual reports	2002-2008		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: civil liberties	2002-2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: civil liberties	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1996-1997		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1997-1998		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1998-1999		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	1999-2000		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2000-2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2001-2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2003-2005		Box 4
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Cot shelter	2006-2007		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: dialogue on the war on terrorism	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Environmental Action Group	2002-2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Iraq messages	2002		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: meet with legislators	2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2003-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2005-2006		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: minutes	2006-2007		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: social justice on war	2003		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: Survival Center	2000-2004		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee: welcoming congregation	2001		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst meetings	2005-2006		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst ministers	2005		Box 2
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst stationery	Undated		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: by-laws	2001		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: Guide for facilitators	1999		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: leadership skills	2001-2002		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: minister	2002-2004		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: rules or order	1997		Box 3
Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst: social justice service	2001		Box 3
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): Downsizing of America	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): handouts and clippings	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): living wage	1994		Box 2
Welfare Reform (CPPAX): Massachusetts	1994		Box 2

Centered on the research and teaching, this collection documents the career of Jane Rausch from her days as a graduate student in the late 1960s through her retirement. In addition to a range of professional correspondence, unpublished works, teaching materials, and student notes, the collection includes several hundred 35mm slides taken by Rausch while traveling in Colombia.

A large and rich assemblage, the Maslow Papers document his career from his days as a young journalist traveling in Central America through his community involvements in New Jersey during the 2000s. An habitual rewriter, Maslow left numerous drafts of books and articles, and the collection includes valuable correspondence with colleagues and friends, including his mentor Philip Roth, as well as Maslow’s fascinating travel diaries.

Lewis Hanke’s papers document his historical research and his prolific scholarly output. The largest portion of the collection are notes, correspondence and administrative records relating to his editorship of the Guide to the Study of US History Outside the US, 1945-1980, as well as a collection of his published and unpublished papers from 1939. The collection also includes notes, correspondence, and image reproductions for Hanke’s book Spanish Viceroys. The remainder of the collection is professional correspondence, documents from Hanke’s tenure as AHA president, and materials from his many research projects.

The Collection contains 61 mounted photographs of marches, demonstrations, and protests in Amherst and Northampton, Mass., taken by Charles F. Carroll, Byrne Guarnotta, and Libby Hubbard, all students at UMass Amherst. The photographs are a vivid record of campus and community activism, and particularly the mobilization against the CIA and American intervention in Central America, as well as the arrest and trial of Abbie Hoffman and Amy Carter.

Includes notes on observations and interviews, background material including press releases, reports, transcripts of speeches and congressional committee hearings testimony, and articles and pamphlets that concern El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize, and Panama, and focus on the Church, guerrillas, dissent, terrorism, and foreign policies of presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.

The Patagonian Rebellion Collection consists of typescripts and photocopies of materials relating to the suppression of the workers’ revolt of 1921-1922. The most significant items include the official diaries and reports of cavalry officers sent to quell the uprising, but the collection also includes correspondence after the fact, news clippings documenting public reaction, and photocopies of photographs depicting the principle individuals involved and the damage wrought. .