Todd Gitlin papers, 1960-2020, bulk 1980-2005

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Series III: Subject Files, 1960-2016, bulk 1965-1990

This series contains files not explicitly related to particular writing projects. Of particular note are several folders of material related to a campaign against the dismissal of André Schiffrin from Pantheon Books; extensive FBI files on Gitlin, SDS, and the Weather Underground; and several files on 1960s activism. Material includes correspondence, clippings, and other research material.


The 1960s



Box 46 60s Influence on '90s Culture, 1991-1992


Box 46 60s Remembered in '88, 1988



Box 47 60s--Academic Studies, 1968-1988


Box 47 60s--Academic Studies (Activists Grow Up), 1980


Box 47 60s--Chicago Riots Press Coverage, 1968



Box 46 60s--Misc., undated



Box 47 60s--Press Coverage, 1960-1969


Box 47 60s--Walker Commission Report, 1968



Box 45 Annihilation (nuclear), 1987


Box 45 Articles on Russia Moritorium, 1986



Box 46 Black Panthers, 1978-1980



Box 45 Blue Egg Media--contract and interview notes, 2012-2013


Box 45 Bronx Science Reunion, 1984



Box 49 Car Commercials--references, articles on postmodernism, et cetera, 1985-1986



Box 45 Center for American Progress--Rise of Donald Trump meeting--agenda and clippings, 2016



Box 46 Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1969-1973



Box 45 David Riesman--material on Riesman's The Lonely Crowd, 1992-2000



Box 49 Eastern Europe, 1990-1992



Box 48 FBI Files--Gitlin--originals and photocopies of FBI documents pertaining to Todd Gitlin., 1965-1985

[FBI documents are primarily from 1965-1968, though material through 1973 is included as well. Also included is correspondence between the Department of Justice and Gitlin regarding his Freedom of Information Act requests.] (3 folders)


Box 48 FBI Files--Students for a Democratic Society, 1965-1967

FBI reports on SDS, incuding photocopies of CIA reports (2 folders)


Box 48 FBI Files--Weather Underground, 1976

Photocopy of FBI report on the Weather Underground from 1976 August 20



Box 49 Fish Debate, 1990



Box 46 H.S. Hughes, 1987



Box 45 Herrick, John Hess, 1998



Box 46 Huey Newton, 1989



Box 45 Jews and Antisemitism, 1991-1992



Box 49 Miscellaneous, 1988


Box 49 Miscellaneous, undated



Box 46 Notes and Research, 1983


Box 46 Open Letter to President Bollinger--re, fossil fuel divestment, undated



Box 44 Pantheon--clippings--petitions from authors--essay drafts--notes--call lists, 1990

[includes some correspondence related to Random House firing Pantheon editor Andre Schiffirn] (5 folders)



Box 46 Public Opinion and War, 1980s



Box 45 Reykjavik, 1987


Box 45 Ribalow Prize, 2000

[Includes speech, media, and clippings for winning prize for Sacrifice.]



Box 47 SDS--miscellaneous, undated



Box 46 Spying--FBI, et cetera, 1978



Box 45 Universalism--notes, 1994-1995