United States -- Politics and government

Scope and Contents Correspondence, manuscripts, reviews, and clippings, principally pertaining to J. Herman Schauinger's research on early Catholic history in the United States. Included is transcribed and photocopied research material pertaining to Fr. Stephen Badin, Bishop Benoit J. Flaget, Bishop Jean B.M. David, Oresetes Brownson, and William Gaston. Also included are files from Schauinger's involvement with Eugene McCarthy's senatorial and presidential campaigns between 1958 and 1971. Note: Click on...

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The collection consists of scrapbooks and photographs documenting the career of Alfred E. Smith. The scrapbooks span Smith's political career from 1913 through his unsuccessful U.S. presidential campaign in 1928. They contain newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, and other materials. The photographs document both his professional and personal life. The collection includes a small quantity of correspondence with politicians such as Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert F. Wagner.

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Collection of political cartoons drawn by Eric M. Smith that were produced for The Capital (Annapolis). They address both Maryland state and national politics, dating from 1974 to 2024. The collection includes sketches and drawings, as well as a set of chronological clippings.

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The collection pertains primarily to U.S.-Panama treaty negotiations relating to the Panama Canal and a proposed interoceanic Atantic-Pacific sea-level canal. The collection consists of copies of documents held by the St. Louis University Law Library.

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Papers of Menc S. Szmczak (1894-1978), relating to his long career on the Federal Reserve Board from 1933 to 1961. Included are manuscripts of speeches and articles, as well as press releases and newspaper clippings.

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Scrapbook containing autographs of various U.S. politicians, including members of Rutherford B. Hayes's cabinet, dating from the 1870s.

Scope and Contents Papers of Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This...

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Papers of Colonel William J. Walsh (1899-1983), consisting of research files, correspondence, manuscripts, notes, accumulated data, and campaign ephemera related to the study of effective political campaigning.