In 1992 after lightening struck the Yankee Rowe reactor in western Massachusetts, concerned citizens organized with the goal of educating themselves and their communities about the potential dangers of nuclear energy. Citizens Awareness Network (CAN) worked to reveal the hidden costs of nuclear power on the health and safety of communites surrounding a reactor, and as a result of their efforts Yankee Rowe was pressured into closing down in 1993. When CAN learned that much of the nuclear waste removed from the site was shipped to a town in South Carolina, the group was outraged that the waste which hurt their community would now be imposed on another community. Once again they were moved into action, this time transforming from a small local group into a regional group with multiple chapters. Today, with seven chapters in five states, CAN continues to uncover the hazards of nuclear energy, proposing instead the use of clean energy produced locally.

This large collection documents every facet of the group, and includes publications, financial records, research files, correspondence, and realia such as t-shirts, bumper stickers and buttons.

Founded in 1962, the mission of Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CPPAX) was to increase citizen involvement in politics and policy making, and to promote social and economic justice both within the U.S. and globally through U.S. foreign policy. The Franklin and Hampshire Counties chapter of CPPAX has been active in a number of issues of both local and national significance.

Minutes of meetings, subject files, and newsletters reveal issues of importance to the local chapter of CPPAX, issues that include clean elections, peace, nuclear abolition, and health care.

Sheep husbandry,
Mass. Agricultural College

In keeping with our mission, the Department of Special Collections and University Archives collects materials of enduring historical and cultural value relating to four major thematic areas: the history and experience of social change in America; the histories and cultures of New England with an emphasis on Massachusetts; innovation and entrepreneurship; and the broad community associated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our collections are tightly integrated and span all formats, including personal papers and organizational records, books and periodicals, maps, photographs, audio and video recordings, and digital materials of all kinds, and they currently include over 35,000 printed items, approximately 30,000 linear feet of manuscript and archival materials, tens of thousands of photographs, and a burgeoning array of digital assets.

Following in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois, we recognize the inherent interconnectedness of a broad range of issues in social justice and collect original materials that document the organizational, intellectual, and individual ties that unite disparate struggles for social equality, human dignity, and justice. In adopting social change as a primary collecting focus, we hope to move beyond viewing social and political movements in isolation and toward a vision that acknowledges the connections between and among them. Ultimately, we wish to lay a foundation for examining the larger histories of social engagement in America and the broader experience of social change that is difficult to encapsulate within a single social movement.

A distinctive feature of SCUA’s approach to collecting is our effort to include “whole lives and whole communities,” to provide a robust basis for interpreting the background of the persons and organizations we document, their influences, interests, and the communities in which they operate.

While not comprehensive, the following includes a brief synopsis of some of the primary focal points for SCUA’s collections:

Special Collections interests

• Social change and movements for social change

  Emphasizing the cross-fertilization between several social movements and centers of activist energy, including peace, social and racial justice, agricultural reform, environmentalism, sustainability, labor activism, gay activism, antinuclear activism, and intentional communities, but branching out to include antifluoridation activism, campaigns for voting rights and clean elections, community and charitable organizations, and the history of revolutionary-era Europe (1789-1848).

  • African American history and culture
    The history of race and ethnicity in America, with particular emphasis on the struggle for racial equality and social justice.
  • Agriculture, horticulture, botany
    Including agricultural science and practice, horticulture, animal husbandry, natural history, organic farming, sustainable living, and heritage breeds.
  • Antinuclear movement
    SCUA holds numerous collections documenting grassroots opposition to nuclear power and nuclear weaponry.
  • Cold War Culture
    The culture of the Cold War, with an emphasis upon East Germany, Poland, and Yugoslavia. Among other areas, SCUA has a strong interest in the Solidarity movement and in partnership with the DEFA Film Library, in East German cinema and graphic arts.
  • Disability
    Organizational records and collections of personal papers documenting the history of disability and disability rights in the United States.
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender issues
    Materials relating to the history and experience of the LGBTQ community and liberation struggles.
  • Labor, work, and industry
    Organized labor, industrialization, manufacturing, business history, and the experience and culture of labor and working people.
  • Peace
    Materials relating to the peace and antiwar movements and non-violence, with an emphasis on New England.
• New England history and culture

  The social, political, cultural, intellectual, literary, and economic life, with an emphasis upon western New England. The department houses thousands of books on New England cookery, with a particular emphasis on charitable and community cookbooks and cookbooks and ephemera published by corporations and the food industry.

  • Cookery and culinary history
    SCUA has thousands of cookbooks and other materials on New England regional cuisine, including community and charitable cookbooks, commercial cookbooks by New England authors, corporate cookbooks, and culinary ephemera.
  • Literature and the arts
    Emphasizing poets and writers, playwrights, and the performing arts in New England.
  • Politics and political culture
    SCUA has rich collections documenting the history and politics of the Commonwealth, including the papers of Congressmen Silvio O. Conte and John Olver, State Senator Stanley Rosenberg, and State rep John Clark.
• Innovation and entrepreneurship

  Materials that document innovative and entrepreneurial activities, and particularly social entrepreneurship. The collections in SCUA include the papers of Mark H. McCormack (a pioneer in sport and entertainment marketing), Carl C. Harris (inventor and President of Rodney Hunt Co.), and numerous collections that document our region’s distinctive history of innovation in manufacturing and technology.

• UMass Amherst

  SCUA makes an effort to document the histories of the entire UMass community. Our holdings include the comprehensive official records of the University since its founding in 1863, papers of faculty, staff, and students, official and unofficial publications, oral histories, and a wide range of other collections that reflect on our history as the Commonwealth’s land grant institution.

• Other areas

  SCUA has developed depth in a handful of other collecting areas, including:

  • American Study of Japan
    American relations with Japan from the Meiji period to the present.
  • Protistology
    Records of the scholarly study of the protista (protozoans).

University Archives interests

Serving as the memory of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University Archives collects, preserves, and makes available official and non-official records documenting the policies, programs, facilities, and activities of the campus community, including its administration, departments and programs, faculty, and staff. The Archives also avidly collects materials that reflect the lives and experiences of its students and alumni.

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Dairy Control Series

see RG-15/2.2 Experiment Station (1888- )–Dairy Control Series (1914-1973)

Dairy Digest, Massachusetts

see Extension Service, Cooperative–Massachusetts Dairy Digest (1936-1985) RG-15/8

Dairy Farm

see Veterinary and Animal Science, Department of–Dairy Farm RG-25/V2

see also Farm (College of Food and Natural Resources) RG-15/7

Dairy Industry, Department of

see Stockbridge School of Agriculture (Two Year School) RG-15/5

Dames Club (1956)

RG-45/40/D3

Dance Department

see Music and Dance, Department of RG-25/M9

see also Hicks, Adeline RG-40/11

Dartmouth, UMass

see Southeastern Massachusetts University (SMU) RG-55/5

Data Bank, Information

see Information Data Bank (IDB) RG-30/2/4

Data Processing Center (DPC)

RG-35/7

Data Processing Center Newsletter (DPC) (1987-1993)

RG-35/7

Day Care Center

see Commuter Student Affairs–Day Care Center RG-30/25

Day School, University

see Nursery School RG-25/H9.5

Day Teacher Preparation Program

see Teacher Education, Center for–Day Teacher Preparation Program RG-13/3/21/5 and

RG-13/3/23/4

Deaf, Media Center for the (Northeast Regional)

see Media Specialists for the Deaf, Center for (School of Education) RG-13/3/21/9

Dean of Academic Support Services

see Academic Support Services, Dean of RG-30/4

Dean of Administration

see Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services RG-35/1

Dean of Students

RG-30/2

Dean of Students, Assistant

RG-30/2/1

Dean of Students–Student Personnel Administrative Council

RG-30/2

Dean of the College (MSC)

see Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost RG-6/1

Dean of Women

RG-30/3

see also Dean of Women, Helen Curtis (1902-1993) available online (Five College Archives Digital Access Project )

Deans Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1977) RG-6/2

see also Campus Management Council (1984-1989) RG-6/2.5

Deans Meeting, Academic

see Deans Council; Provost’s Administrative Council; Academic Deans Meeting (1955-1977) RG-6/2

see also Campus Management Council RG-6/2.5

Debate (Communication Studies)

RG-25/C7.4

Debate Club

see Debate (Communications Studies) RG-25/C7.4

Debate Union Alumni Newsletter (1979-1982)

RG-25/C7.4/00

DEFA Film Library

see Deutsche Film Aktien- Gesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library (1998- ) RG-25G6.1

Degrees

see Enrollment, Degrees, Courses, Curriculum RG-1/206

see also Honorary Degrees RG-1/7/2

Degrees, Honorary Degrees

see Honorary Degrees (1927- ) RG-1/7/2

Delta Chi (1961- )

RG-45/90/D4

Delta Phi Alpha (1916- )

RG-45/90/D4.3

Delta Phi Gamma (1985)

RG-45/90/D4.6

Delta Sigma Phi (1995)

RG-45/90/D4.7

Delta Sigma Theta (1991-1992)

RG-45/90/D4.725

Delta Upsilon (1988-1989)

RG-45/90/D4.75

Delta Zeta

RG-45/90/D4.8

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) (1989)

RG-45/80/D4

Democrats, University

see University Democrats RG-45/80/U6

Democrats, Young

see Young Democrats RG-45/80/Y6.2

Demographic Research Institute, Massachusetts

see Massachusetts Demographic Research Institute (Research and Graduate Studies) RG-9/10

Demography Group (1982- )

RG-40/3/D4

Demonstration Alcohol Education Project

RG-30/15/2/3

Demonstrations, Student Protests and

see Student Protests and Demonstrations RG-45/101

Dental Hygiene Committee (1962)

RG-40/2/D4

Departmental Activities (Photographs)

RG-160

Department Libraries

see Libraries Departmental (1880, 1958-1978) RG-8/3/11

Departments, Academic

see Academic Departments, Programs, Institutes, Centers RG-25

Deputy Chancellor

see Chancellor, Deputy RG-4/18

Design and Production (University Relations and Development)

RG-39/6

Designs for Effective Learning Cluster (School of Education)

RG-13/3/23

Deutsche Film Aktien-Gesellschaft (DEFA) Film Library (1998- )

RG-25/G6.1

Development Advisory Council (1969)

RG-40/2/D5

Development and Alumni Affairs

see Alumni Office (Office of Development and Alumni Affairs) RG-50/1

Development Council

see Development Advisory Council (1969) RG-40/2/D5

Development, University Relations and

see University Relations and Development RG-39

Devens, Fort

see Fort Devens (1946-1949) RG-55/1

DGK Fraternity (1875- )

RG-45/90/D5

DIAL

see Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL) RG-29/2

Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (DIAL)

RG-29/2

Digital Initiatives News (UMass Amherst Libraries) (1999- )

RG-8/00/D3

Digital Photographic Laboratory (Research and Graduate Studies)

RG-9/3/2

Dining Services (Campus Center, Student Union)

RG-37/2

Diploma

see Insignia, Diploma, Motto, Mascot, Mace, etc. RG-1/6

see also Diplomas (Printed materials, oversize) RG-184/6

Diplomas (Printed materials, oversize)

RG-184/6

Directions

see Handbook–Directions (Student Affairs) RG-30/00/2

Directories (Alumni)

RG-50/00/1

see also Directories, Mugbooks, Catalogs of Graduates, etc. (General Catalogs,

All-University Lists of Students) RG-1/00/5

Directories, Faculty and Staff

see Faculty/Staff Biography, Lists, Directories (Collective) RG-40/10

Directories, Mugbooks, Catalogs of Graduates, etc. (General Catalogs,

All-University Lists of Students) (1867- ) RG-1/00/5

see also Directories (Alumni) RG-50/00/1

Disability Services

see Handicapped Student Affairs, Office of (1973- ) RG-30/29

see also Abilities Unlimited (Student Interest Group) (1986- ) RG-45/40/A2

Disadvantaged Students Program

see CCEBMS RG-6/4/12

Disarmament Study Group (1981)

RG-40/3/D5

Discipline Board (Faculty Senate, 1965-1972)

RG-40/2/A3

Dispatches (1982) (School of Education)

RG-13/1

Dispute Resolution

see Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR) (2001- ) RG-25/L7.5

Dissertations and Theses (Films and Videotapes)

see Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Dissertations, Doctoral

see Doctoral Dissertations (1911- ) RG-46/1

see also Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Distinguished Architecture (Physical Plant) (1966)

RG-36/50/D5

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

see Lectures (Faculty) RG-40/1/2

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series (Films and Videotapes) (1986- ) RG-186/7

Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Videotapes (1986- )

RG-186/7

see also Lectures (Faculty and Staff) RG-40/1/2

Chancellor’s Lecture Series (1975-1986) RG-186/1

Distinguished Teaching Awards

see Awards, Prizes RG-1/11

Distinguished Visitor’s Program (DVP) (1960-1996)

RG-45/50/D5

Diversity and Development, Center for

see Center for Diversity and Development (CDD) (1996- ) RG-45/80/C4

Diversity and Social Justice, Counsel on Community

see Counsel on Community, Diversity and Social Justice (1997) RG-4/17

Diversity Office, Equal Opportunity and

see Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity and Diversity Office RG-4/7

Divine Light Club

see Divine Light Mission RG-45/70/D5

Divine Light Mission (Religious Group) (1973- )

RG-45/70/D5

Doctoral Dissertations (1911- )

RG-46/1 [see UMass Library catalog for holdings

see also Theses and Dissertations (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/2

Documents, Government (Library) (1955- )

RG-8/3/3

Donahue Institute

see Institute for Governmental Services (IGS), Donahue RG-3/8

Dormitory and Area Government

see Housing Services RG-32

DPC

see Data Processing Center (DPC) RG-35/7

Dr. Suess Club (1956)

RG-45/40/D7

Draft Counseling Services (1981)

RG-45/80/D7

Dramatic Society

see MAC Dramatic Society RG-45/40/M3

Drill Team, Equestrian

see Equestrian Drill Team RG-45/40/E6

Drop-Out Problem, Student

see Retention Committee–Student Drop-Out Problem (1985- ) RG-40/2/R5

Drug Drop-In Center

see Room to Move RG-30/10

Drum (1970-1988)

RG-45/00/D7

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DSA

see Democratic Socialist of America (DSA)

DTA

see Awards, Prizes (Distinguished Teaching Awards) RG-1/11

Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, W. E. B.

see Afro-American Studies, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of RG-25/A4

Duplicate Collection

RG-99

Duplicate Collection, Alumni Materials

RG-99/1

Duplicate Collection, Annual Reports (1863-1989)

RG-99/2

Duplicate Collection, Buildings and Grounds (Distinguished Architecture for a State University) (1966)

RG-99/3

Duplicate Collection, Catalogs (Bulletin Series) (1914- )

RG-99/4

Duplicate Collection, Chancellors Lecture Series (1974-1978)

RG-99/5

Duplicate Collection, Histories of Campus (1917, 1933, 1963)

RG-99/6

Duplicate Collection, The Index (1871- )

RG-99/7

Duplicate Collection, Missions and Goals, A Report of the Commission on (1976)

RG-99/8

Duplicate Collection, Stosag (Stockbridge School) (1961- )

RG-99/9

Duplicating (Administrative Services)

RG-35/9

Durfee Garden (Physical Plant) (1993- )

RG-36/104/D8

DVP

see Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) RG-45/50/D5

Dyslexic Student Organization

see Communication Skills Center RG-6/4/15

Massachusetts State Senator for the Berkshire District, 1950-1958, and representative for Massachusetts’s First District in the United States Congress for 17 terms, 1959-1991, where he made significant contributions in the areas of health and human services, the environment, education, energy, transportation, and small business.

Spanning four decades and eight presidents, the papers offer an extraordinary perspective on the major social, economic, and cultural changes experienced by the American people. Includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, bill files, his voting record, committee files, scrapbooks, travel files, audio-visual materials and over 5,000 photographs and slides.

Established by Lois Barber in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1992 with their first campaign at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, EarthAction has been organizing international campaigns ever since. As the world’s largest action network, the group’s campaigns address a variety of global issues from climate change and nuclear weapons to children’s rights and empowering women to protect the land. With a mission both to inform people about pressing problems facing the world and to move them to action, EarthAction creates and distributes information kits aimed at different audiences: individuals and groups, policymakers, and journalists.

The collection includes administrative files that illustrate the process of building a campaign, financial records, and publications, as well as action, legislative, and media kits created for many of the group’s international campaigns.

Established in 1983 by a group of faculty and administrators in the Five College community who perceived an urgent need for increased faculty dialogue about issues involving peace, security, and the nuclear arms race. Expanded in 1984 with the support of a grant from the Ford Foundation, PAWSS continued as a multidisciplinary program that sought to engage faculty in a consideration of various perspectives on world security and to assist them with curriculum development involving these issues.

This small collection includes circular letters and flyers produced by PAWSS describing the group’s activities as well as materials used by faculty during summer institutes and to develop curriculum.

Nancy E. Foster

For the better part of four decades, Nancy E. Foster was active in the struggle for social justice, peace, and political reform. From early work in civil rights through her engagement in political reform in Amherst, Mass., Foster was recognized for her work in the movements opposing war, nuclear power, and the assault on civil liberties after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Locally, she worked with her fellow members of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst and with interfaith coalitions to address problems of hunger and homelessness.

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.

Co-founded by Charles Light and Daniel Keller, Green Mountain Post Films has produced and distributed films for more than twenty-five years. Their first documentary film released in 1975, Lovejoy’s Nuclear War, was one of the first films to question the nuclear energy policy of the United States. Since then GMP Films has continued to produce movies that explore social issues, and their films have been used as educational and organizational tools for activists working on peace, veteran, nuclear, environmental and other related issues.

The collection contains very little that documents the activities of GMP Films, chiefly research files, correspondence, and proposals relating to film projects either produced or under consideration. The bulk of the collection consists of alternative press publications from the 1960s-1970s.

Formed in 1963, the Greenfield Peace Center viewed itself as an educational organization teaching about and advocating for world peace. Their activities included organizing peace marches, warning against the dangers of nuclear war, conducting teach-ins, campaigning against war toys, and counseling on the alternatives to the draft.

Correspondence, administrative documents, and news clippings relating to peace activism centered in Greenfield, Massachusetts and in the upper Pioneer Valley, especially by the Greenfield Community Peace Center, William Hefner, and Turn Toward Peace.