Leland Stowe Papers
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Leland Stowe (1899-1994) was an American journalist, author, and professor, best known for his war correspondence reporting. The Leland Stowe Papers (1986) contain sections of Stowe's unpublished book, Between the Crossfires: The Case History of a Foreign Correspondent Investigated by the FBI. These sections contain a compilation of his FBI file, letters, and press clippings which all relate to the FBI's investigation of Stowe after he publicly supported the Spanish Republican's cause while covering the Spanish Civil War as a foreign correspondent in the 1930s.
Biographical Note
Leland Stowe (1899-1994) was an American journalist, author, and professor, best known for his war correspondence reporting. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris in 1926 for the New York Herald Tribune, and eventually won a Pulitzer Prize in 1930 for his coverage of The Hague conference on reparations. Stowe covered the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s on behalf of the New York Herald Tribune and was later investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he publicly supported the Spanish Republican's cause during the war. During World War II, he worked as a war correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and the The New York Post. He later became Director of Radio Free Europe's News and Information Service in the 1950s and in 1955 joined the University of Michigan as a journalism professor. He also contributed to Reader's Digest as an editor and staff writer.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains sections of Leland Stowe's unpublished book Between the Crossfires: The Case History of a Foreign Correspondent Investigated by the FBI, which was a compilation of notated copies of his FBI file, letters, and press clippings, all related to the FBI's investigation of Stowe after he publicly supported the Spanish Republican's cause during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Source: Leland Stowe Papers from The Newberry Library Modern Manuscripts and Archives, July 25, 2025, https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/85749
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), were transferred to New York University in November 2000 by the ALBA Board of Governors. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. For more information, special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Leland Stowe Papers; ALBA 106; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from Brandeis University in January 2001. The accession number associated with this transfer is 2001.076.
Custodial History
Donated by Leland Stowe to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and deposited at Brandeis University in 1986. The collection was transferred to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives in January 2001 as part of the relocation of the ALBA collections from Brandeis to New York University.
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Processing Information
Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2025 are unknown.
In 2025 the material was rehoused into multiple acid-free folders to help stabilize the papers which were badly warped. Fields and description were added to the record to comply with local content standards.
