Series IV, Writings, 1964-1992
Arrangement
Series is arranged into two subseries, both of which are arranged chronologically.
Unpublished Writings, 1964-1992, 1964-1992, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this subseries consist of unpublished writings by Buhle. Materials include papers and essays written by Buhle as an undergraduate and graduate student, including his Master's and PhD theses. Also included are notebooks, drafts of essays, and lecture notes about the activities of Radical America, its transformation from a graduate student journal associated with Students for a Democratic Society to an established political publication, and its efforts to reformulate its political orientation as the publication developed. Other materials in this subseries include syllabi and notes for two classes at the Cambridge Goddard Graduate School, as well as notes exchanged with journalist Dave Wagner concerning popular culture studies and labor history in Rhode Island.
Arrangement
Subseries is arranged chronologically.
Undergraduate writings: Outlines, 1964-1965, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Undergraduate writings: Papers, 1965-1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Undergraduate writings: Papers, undated
Box: 12, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Undergraduate writings: Thesis draft, circa 1966, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate school writings: Book reviews, 1966-1967, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate school writings: Exams, circa 1967-1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate school writings: Lecture notes, circa 1967-1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate school writings: Papers: General, 1967-1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate school writings: Papers: "Realignment in the 1930s", 1967, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gradute school writings: "Louis C. Fraina, 1894-1953" [Master's thesis] (1 of 2 folders), 1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gradute school writings: "Louis C. Fraina, 1894-1953" [Master's thesis] (2 of 2 folders), 1968, inclusive
Box: 12, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Editorials and op-eds, 1964-1977, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Students for a Democratic Society, 1967-1969, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "American Liberalism: Some Questions", Jun 1968, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radical America notebooks, 1969, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radical America notebooks, 1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Resynthesis", 1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essays on Melvyn Dubofsky, 1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Marcuse and the New Left", 1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Criticism of Paul Buhle, circa 1968-1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Socialist Scholars Conference, 1970, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Autobiographical writings, 1970-1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Marxism in the United States: 39 Propositions", Nov 1971, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unfinished popular culture project for Institute of Policy Studies, 1971-1972, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radical America Boston writings, Aug 1971-Jun 1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on American Marxism, 1972, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on readings for class on American radicalism, 1972, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reflections on Radical America, 1972, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) history conference, Apr 15, 1972, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 1972, 1990, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Debsian Socialism: An Overview", 1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Marxism and popular culture for Popular Culture Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speech draft: "Factory and Society", Dec 12, 1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Man and Woman in America" social history project, 1973, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Radical America, 1974-1976, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Critical Interruptions: New Left Perspectives on Herbert Marcuse, 1975, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Harvey Swados and Stan Weir, 1975, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on New Left: May Day Manifesto, 1975, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on state capitalism, circa 1975, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on television, 1975, inclusive
Box: 13, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Third Party Footprints, 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essays on James Weinstein (1 of 2 folders), 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essays on James Weinstein (2 of 2 folders), 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on The Young Lukacs by Andrew Arato and Paul Breines, 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speech drafts: Marxism, circa 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speech drafts: Socialist literature, circa 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Studies in Radical History, 1975, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speech drafts: MARHO forum, 1975-1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Herbert Gutman, 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on popular front culture, 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Finns in America", circa 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Historians, Culture, and the Lower Classes", circa 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay ideas research memos, Aug 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Red, White, Blue, Revolutionary", 1976, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rhode Island Labor History Forum, 1976-1978, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Oral History of the American Left, after 1976
Box: 14, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Gridironing on Bluto", 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Television documentary on social movements in New York [Never made], 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on R. Crumb, 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Notes on the New Comics", 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Pullman: Focus on Social Confrontation", Mar 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Socialist Sentimentalism", Sep 1977, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interview questions, 1979, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "American Labor's Pioneer Authors", 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Italian Americans, 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on Lawrence Ferlinghetti, circa 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Left Culture in the United States", circa 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Return of the Comix", 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "America Looks Forward to Election Day", Sep 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Worker Culture/Radical Cultures", Sep 1980, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Peace Culture/Popular Culture/Left Culture", 1980-1982, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Consumers Consumed", circa 1982, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Radicalism Renewed?", circa 1982, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Humor in the American Left: Old Immigrant Meets New Upon the Plain of Meloncholy Fantastia", circa 1983, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "In Sam Liptzin's Library", 1983, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Old Wounds", circa 1983, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lecture on television, 1984, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unpublished letter on Socialist Action, Apr 12, 1984, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "The Vanished Yiddish Soul of C and W", 1984, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Maurice Kish, Nightside Dreamer", 1984-1986, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Anarchism and American Labor", 1985, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on science fiction, circa 1985, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "The Left, the National Question, and Immigrant Radicalism in the United States", 1985, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Marxism in the United States", 1985-1986, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Culture and Revolutionary Struggle: Legacy and Prospects", circa 1986, inclusive
Box: 14, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Liberation Theology and Marxism: A Mediation", circa 1986, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "DSA: A Cultural Program", circa 1987, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on the Immigrant Left, circa 1987, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "The Radical Tradition", 1990, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lectures on Yiddish, circa 1992, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Incomplete drafts and outlines, 1970-1990, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on CLR James [incomplete], undated
Box: 15, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay on television detectives, undated
Box: 15, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lecture on New Unionism, undated
Box: 15, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Moshe Nadir and the Soul of Yiddish Humor", undated
Box: 15, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Essay: "Overview of 1877-1890", undated
Box: 15, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Published Writings, 1966-1991, 1966-1991, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Materials in this subseries consist of Buhle's published writings, including articles and book reviews in scholarly journals and leftwing political newspapers on topics such as the history of American radicalism, radicalism in popular culture, and recent developments in labor history scholarship.
Arrangement
Subseries is arranged chronologically.
Journal articles, 1966-1967, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journal articles, May 1975-May 1990, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper articles, Sep 1966-Sep 1988, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper articles, Feb 1988-May 1990, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book reviews, Oct 1968-May 1985, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book reviews, 1986-1991, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reviews of Paul Buhle's books, 1981-1990, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rhode Island DSA newsletter, 1986, inclusive
Box: 15, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
