Mark Solomon Papers
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Mark Solomon is a historian and writer who taught History at Simmons College from 1967 to 1997. His papers consist of bulletins, booklets, pamphlets, news articles and magazines pertaining to Solomon's research of and participation in the anti-nuclear war and peace movement during the later years of the Cold War (1979-1991). Topics include nuclear disarmament, military practices in the United States and Soviet Union, human rights, and motions for world peace. Drafts, lectures, outlines and writings by Solomon document the U.S. peace movement and relate to U.S. foreign policy. Correspondence, proposals, conference agendas and presentations document Solomon's affiliation with the U.S. Peace Council and the World Peace Council.
Biographical Note
Mark Solomon is a historian and writer who taught History at Simmons College from 1967 to 1997. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Solomon was an active participant in the peace movement and served as co-national chairperson of the Communist Party USA's U.S. Peace Council and a U.S. Presidential Committee member of its partner organization, the World Peace Council. Solomon wrote articles for these organizations on the history of 20th-century foreign politics and peace movements in the United States. Solomon also wrote extensively on the United States' military involvement in the Middle East and India. Throughout his professional career Solomon guest lectured and gave presentations at universities and conferences such as Humboldt University of Berlin and the Third European Nuclear Disarmament (END) Convention held in Perugia, Italy in 1984.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. Materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Mark Solomon Papers (dated 1974-2000) consist of bulletins, booklets, pamphlets, news articles and magazines documenting Solomon's research of and participation in the United States' anti-nuclear war peace movement during the later years of the Cold War (1979-1991). Topics for these pamphlets and booklets include nuclear disarmament, military practices in the United States and Soviet Union, human rights and motions for world peace. A bulk of the materials are from the 1980s. Drafts, lectures, outlines and essays composed by Solomon pertain to the history of the peace movement in the United States during the 20th century, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s and U.S. foreign policy, specifically U.S. relations with the Middle East. Correspondence, proposals, conference agendas and presentations document Solomon's affiliation with the CPUSA's U.S. Peace Council and the World Peace Council.
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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 Mark Solomon, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in January 2018 by Mark Solomon. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Mark Solomon Papers; TAM 741; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mark Solomon in 2018; an additional accession was donated by Mark Solomon in December 2018. The accession numbers associated with these gifts are 2018.083 and 2019.027.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning the collection was described at the collection level with a box and folder inventory. Original folder titles were maintained when given, and loose materials were assigned titles by the archivist. Pamphlets and documents that arrived loose in boxes or stored in overstuffed folders were rehoused into archival folders. Materials are in the order in which they were received from the donor. In 2019, the accretion to the collection was rehoused into archival folders, while maintaining the original folder titles. The folders were kept in the order in which they were received.
