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Mark Solomon Papers

Call Number

TAM.741

Date

1970-2000, inclusive

Creator

Solomon, Mark I. (Role: Donor)

Extent

11.5 linear feet
in 10 record cartons and 1 oversize flat box

Language of Materials

Materials primarily in English, with some publications in French, German, and Spanish.

Abstract

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.

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.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access.

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.

Collection processed by

Jenny Ambrose

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:44:39 -0400.
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Language: Finding aid written in English

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.

Revisions to this Guide

March 2019: Updated to include materials integrated from accession number 2019.027 by Jasmine Sykes-Kunk.

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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News Articles: U.S. Foreign Relations

Box: 1, Folder: 1, 11-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Solomon, Mark: Notebooks

Box: 1, Folder: 2-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Muslims of the Soviet East

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bulletin

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United States Peace Council

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New World Review

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Literature on Anti-Nuclear War

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peace News Bulletin/World Conference for Solidarity Draft

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

News Bulletins

Box: 1, Folder: 14-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council

Box: 1, Folder: 17-18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Meeting for Nuclear-Weapon Free Zones

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Insitut fur International Politik and Wirtschaft

Box: 1, Folder: 20-21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Solomon, Mark: Drafts

Box: 1, Folder: 22-23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Mississippi: Peace Cruise

Box: 2, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Palestine: Politics

Box: 2, Folder: 3-4, 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indonesia Newsletter

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

News Articles: U.S. Foreign Relations

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Literature: U.S. Foreign Relations

Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

U.S. Peace Council

Box: 2, Folder: 9-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Dialogue Conference

Box: 2, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Nordic Peace Conference

Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Gabinete de Analises Politicas (M.P.L.A.)

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

News Articles

Box: 2, Folder: 16-17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Soviet Union: Politics

Box: 2, Folder: 18-19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Newsletters: Middle East

Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council

Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

African National Congress

Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Box: 3, Folder: 1-2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council Booklet

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on German Democratic Republic

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Booklets

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklet on Soviet Union

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

For Life

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

1987 World Conference Against A&H Bombs

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Five Continent Conference on Peace and Disarmament

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conferencia Contra La Carrera Armamentista

Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Conference Against the Arms Race and for Disarmament

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Congress on Disarmament Education

Box: 3, Folder: 12-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Czechoslovakia Tourist Booklet

Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Keine Atomraketen

Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pamphlets on Cold War

Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Development and Peace

Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations Booklets

Box: 3, Folder: 19-20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Literature on Apartheid

Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Congress of Peace Forces

Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Disarmament Booklets

Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Nations against Apartheid Booklets

Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on German Democratic Republic

Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Disarmament Booklets

Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Communist Party of the United States Booklets

Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Nuclear Disarmament

Box: 4, Folder: 4-6. 14-20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photograph Reproductions of the Army of German Democratic Republic

Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Soviet Union Booklets

Box: 4, Folder: 8-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Peace

Box: 4, Folder: 11-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Socialism

Box: 4, Folder: 21-22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on German Democratic Republic

Box: 5, Folder: 1, 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New World Review

Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Soviet Union Booklets

Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Peace

Box: 5, Folder: 6-8, 10-13, 15-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Marxist Review

Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Book on Nuclear War

Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council

Box: 6, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Euromissiles

Box: 6, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Socialism

Box: 6, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Magazines on Nuclear Warfare

Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Century and Peace

Box: 6, Folder: 8, 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Blatter fur deutsche und Internationale Politik

Box: 6, Folder: 9-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Military

Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Development and Peace

Box: 6, Folder: 13-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on German Democratic Republic

Box: 6, Folder: 17-18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on World Peace

Box: 6, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Century and Peace

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Palestine: United Nations

Box: 7, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council Booklets

Box: 7, Folder: 4, 10, 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets by L.I. Brezhnev

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Congress of Peace Forces Booklets

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Soviet Union

Box: 7, Folder: 7-8, 13-16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United States: Foreign Relations

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Congress of Peace Forces Booklets

Box: 7, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Burden of the Berrigans

Box: 7, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Booklets on Peace

Box: 7, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Parliament of the Peoples for Peace

Box: 7, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Middle East

Box: 8, Folder: 1-2, 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

SALT - Consolidated File

Box: 8, Folder: 3-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Arms Race: Assorted Clippings/Materials

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Soviet Threat" - Materials

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Detente and Arms Race

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

American Peace Movement and the Middle East

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indian Ocean Bases Materials

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Development and Disarmament: The Importance of International Cooperation"

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Garcia, Diego

Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

U.S. Committee for German Democratic Republic

Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

India -- Patna Conference/Patna Address

Box: 8, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

India

Box: 8, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Indian Ocean Bases

Box: 8, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

International Contacts

Box: 8, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

National Council of Soviet-American Friendship, Inc.

Box: 8, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

New World Review

Box: 8, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Women Strike for Peace

Box: 8, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Women's International League

Box: 8, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Arvin S. Quist, E.U. Franck, H.R. Jolley, and W.L. Marshall

Box: 8, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Globalization and Empire

Box: 8, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Korean War Racial Discrimination

Box: 8, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Globalization, Peace, Economic Security

Box: 8, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Germany Cold War: Party of Democratic Socialism - German Democratic Republic

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Middle East: Issues and Policies

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

European Nuclear Disarmament (END) Convention in Perugia, Italy

Box: 9, Folder: 3-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peace Movement: History Poject

Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Middle East and Peace Movement

Box: 9, Folder: 6-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transnational Corporations

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peace Movement: Organization Materials

Box: 9, Folder: 10-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Solomon, Mark: Manuscripts, Speeches, Addresses

Box: 9, Folder: 12-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Africa-Latin America

Box: 9, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Middle East: Peace Organizations and Proposals

Box: 9, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

"Star Wars"

Box: 9, Folder: 16-17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Disarmament/Common Security

Box: 9, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Japanese Military Photo Reproductions (in Japanese)

Box: 10, Folder: 1-4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peace Multinationals, Neocolonialism, 1974-1991, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peace Movement 1980s, 1984-1988, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 2-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Assorted Articles and Talks, 1981-2018, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

World Peace Council and European Contacts, 1977-2005, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 5-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Multinationals, Racism, Peace, 1973-2017, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Talks and Papers, 1974-1992, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 9-10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Talks, 1974-2014, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Development and Disarmament, June -July 1973, 1973-1975, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Talks and Articles, 1972-2009, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 13-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mid-East Materials, 1973-74, 1973-1974, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

BPC and May 7-8 Delegation, 1981

Box: 11, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Vietnam - 1975, 1974-1975, bulk

Box: 11, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miller, Max, 1970-1976, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Talks and Notes, 2009-2017, inclusive

Box: 11, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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