Richard Moser Collection on the GI Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Lordstown (Ohio) Automobile Workers
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Richard Moser was an associate professor of American history at Middle Tennessee State University until 1998, and the author of The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era (1996). About one half of the collection consists of oral histories on audiocassettes the majority pertaining to the GI anti-Vietnam War movement, with some pertaining to rank and file labor movement activity during the 1970s at the Lordstown, Ohio General Motors plant there, whose workers were represented by United Automobile Workers Local 112. There are also research notes, some correspondence, printed ephemera, and papers written by Moser's students.
Historical/Biographical Note
Richard Moser earned his PhD from Rutgers University in 1992. Until 1998, he was an associate professor of American history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is the author of The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era (1996) and, with Van Gosse, is coeditor of The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (2003). He has also served as the National Organizer, American Association of University Professors.
Scope and Contents
About one half of the collection consists of oral histories on audiocassettes (there are also summaries and some transcripts), most pertaining to the GI anti-Vietnam War movement, with some pertaining to rank and file labor movement activity during the 1970s at the Lordstown, Ohio General Motors plant, whose workers were represented by the United Automobile Workers Local 112. Some interviews were conducted contemporaneously, others subsequently. There are also research notes, some correspondence, printed ephemera, and papers written by Moser's students.
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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 Richard Moser were transferred to New York University in 2010 by Richard Moser. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Richard Moser Collection on the GI Anti-Vietnam War Movement and Lordstown (Ohio) Automobile Workers; TAM 544; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Richard Moser in 2010. The accession number associated with this gift is 2010.054.
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Separated Materials
One box of GI anti-Vietnam War serials were separated to the Library's print collection, as was one box of books and pamphlets.
