Series I, Correspondence, 1965-1993, 1966-1993, inclusive

This series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Paul Buhle and numerous individuals on subjects such as the historiography of labor movements, the emergence of popular culture criticism, the role of humor in radical political movements, the activities of Buhle's journals, Radical America and Cultural Correspondence, and the possible ways to refigure Marxism and socialism in the late 20th-century. Frequent correspondents include Franklin Rosemont, founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group; political writer and theorist Paul Berman; Trotskyist political theorist Alan Woods; labor historian David Montgomery; Thomas H. Fiehrer, Southern historian and editor of Plantation Society in the Americas; anarchist poet and historian Dan Georgakas; Jewish editor and humorist Larry Bush; and anarchist cartoonist Jay Kinney. Other correspondents include actors Edward Asner and Eddy Albert; writers and theorists Frederic Jameson, Stuart Hall, Malcom Cowley, CLR James, Marge Piercy, Irving Howe, Ring Lardner, Jr., Edward Said, Alexander Saxton, and David Platt; labor, social, and cultural historians Herbert Gutman, Eric Foner, William Appleman Williams, David Brody, Phillip Foner, Herbert Aptheker, George Lipsitz; artists Art Spiegelman, R. Crumb, Bill Griffith, Maurice Kish; leftist political activists H.L. Mitchell, Gil Green, Will Weinstone, Joseph Starobin, and Paul Novick; editors of publications like the Village Voice, Nation, Seven Days, Morgn Freiheit, and Jewish Forward; as well as numerous poets, labor movement veterans, leftwing political activists, and radical scholars.