Politics Public Policy and Political Reform Collections

Politics, Public Policy, and Political Reform:
Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections

Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be searched in the online finding aids database.

For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the Special Collections Research Center.

• ACT UP-Chicago. Records.
• American Civil Liberties Union. Illinois Division. Records.
  
• Archival Biographical Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
• Archival Serials. HTML Guide
• Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Papers. Finding Aid
• William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana
  
• Laird Bell. Papers.
  
• William Benton. Papers.
  
• Sophonisba P. Breckinridge. Papers. Finding Aid
• John William Brown. Autobiography. [Ms. 87]
  
• Donald S. Bradford. Papers. [Ms. 1261]
  
• Louis Brownlow. Diaries.
  
• Percy William Bunting. Papers.
  
• Ernest W. Burgess. Papers. Finding Aid
• Chicago Citizens Committee to Study the Disorders of Convention Week. Records.
  
• Chicago Citizens Police Committee. Records.
  
• Chicago Civil Service League. Records.
  
• Chicago Committee of Fifteen. Records. [Ms. 1028]
  
• Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey. Records.
  
• Civic Disarmament Committee for Handgun Control. Records.
  
• Cleaner Air Committee of Hyde Park-Kenwood. Records.
  
• Commission on Freedom of the Press. Records.
  
• Commission on Race and Housing. Records.
  
• William E. Dodd. Papers. Finding Aid
• Paul H. Douglas. Papers. Finding Aid
• Stephen A. Douglas. Papers.
  
• James A. Garfield. Collection.
  
• General Archival Files. HTML Guide
• Rachel M. Goetz. Papers.
  
• John Gunther. Papers.
  
• William Rainey Harper. Papers. Finding Aid
• Hyde Park Historical Society. Collection. Finding Aid
• Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records.
  
• Illinois Joint Commission for the Merit System. Records.
  
• Morris Janowitz. Papers. Finding Aid
• Walter Johnson. Papers.
  
• Jerome G. Kerwin. Papers.
  
• Albert Lepawsky. Papers.
  
• Salmon O. Levinson. Papers.
  
• Hedwig L. Loeb. Papers. Finding Aid
• Robert Morss Lovett. Papers. Finding Aid
• Frank O. Lowden. Papers.
  
• Kirtley F. Mather. Papers.
  
• Albert Mayer. Papers.
• Charles E. Merriam. Papers.
  
• Robert E. Merriam. Papers.
  
• Thomas J. Morgan. Papers. Finding Aid
• John Nuveen. Papers.
  
• Walter P. Paepcke. Papers. Finding Aid
• Bessie Louise Pierce. Papers.
  
• Merritt Willis Pinckney. Testimony before Cook County Civil Service Commission.
  
• Michael Polanyi. Papers.
  
• Political Pamphlets Collection
  
• Louis Freeland Post. The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty. [Ms. 658]
  
• Theodore Roosevelt. Papers.
  
• Julius Rosenwald. Papers. Finding Aid
• Peter H. Rossi. Papers.
  
• George A. Schilling. Papers. Finding Aid
• Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation. Records.
  
• David Lee Shillinglaw. Papers.
  
• Edward A. Shils. Papers.
  
• Henry A. Slattery. The Story of the Teapot Dome Scandal. [Ms. 661]
  
• Thomas V. Smith. Papers.
  
• South Park Improvement Association. Records.
  
• Harold H. Swift. Papers.
  
• Ernest W. Stirn. Papers.
  
• Leo Strauss. Papers.
  
• Tuesday Club. Records. Finding Aid
• James H. Tufts. Papers.
  
• University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
  
• University of Chicago. Committee on Education, Training, and Research in
  Race Relations. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Committee on Public Policy Studies. Records. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Office of Public Relations. Political Investigations. Records.
  
• University of Chicago. Office of the President. Urban Renewal Subject Files.
  
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers.
• University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925. Finding Aid
• University of Chicago. Record Portfolios of Departments.
  
• Walgreen Foundation. Records.
  
• Leonard D. White. Papers.
  
• Delos Franklin Wilcox. Papers.
  
• John T. Wilson. Papers. Finding Aid
• Louis Wirth. Papers.
  
• Quincy Wright. Papers.
  

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