US-RUn-msg231 Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection 1904-2000 (bulk 1984-2000) Finding aid prepared by Abigail Casavant. University of Rhode Island Library, University Archives and Special Collections 2013 May 29
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 Buhle, Paul 1944- Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection 1984-2000 (bulk 1984-2000) Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection 4 box(es)(2 linear feet) The collection reflects Paul Buhle's involvement in labor history. It includes tapes and transcriptions of working life in Rhode Island as well as images featured in his book, "Images of American Radicalism." Mss. Gr. 231 Biographical note

Paul Buhle is a historian of labor history, popular culture, and social movements as well as a professor emeritus of Brown University. Buhle has published or edited over 30 histories of radicalism and popular culture including "Images of American Radicalism." He also founded the Oral History of the American Left archives at New York University in 1976 and is a co-founder of the Rhode Island Labor History Society. In addition to the Oral History of the American Left, Buhle created an oral history archive at the Rhode Island Historical Society regarding working class life in Rhode Island and published "Vanishing Rhode Island," an illustrated history of Rhode Island that encourages preservation. His current research includes a history of Jewish Americans and popular culture, ecological history, and vernacular visual culture.

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Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection, Mss. Gr. 231, University of Rhode Island, University Archives and Special Collections.

 Scope and Content Note

The Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection includes tapes and transcriptions of interviews from Buhle's project regarding working life in Rhode Island as well as numerous images from his book "Images of American Radicalism."

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in two series as follows: 1. Oral History Project Interviews 2. Cassette Tapes

Administrative Information

The Paul Buhle Rhode Island Labor Collection was given to Special Collections in July of 2009 by a deed of unrestricted gift signed by Scott Molloy. Molloy received this material from Buhle.

 Names Buhle, Paul, 1944- Subjects

RIAMCO Browsing Terms Rhode Island/Local Interest Additional information

Inventory Series 1 Oral History Project Interviews1984-2000, scattered, undated

In Series I, there are typed transcriptions of interviews Buhle conducted for his Oral History of Rhode Island Labor project.

1 1 undated African Americans, Photos from Images of American Radicalism 1 2 1987, 1994, 2003 Articles by Buhle, Paul 1 3 1984 Sep 05 Bagdikian, Ben - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 4 1985 Aug 02 Bell, Ray - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 5 undated Brown, Edwin, excerpt - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 6 undated Clerical Workers (excerpts) - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor 1 7 1984 Mar 16 Coen, John - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 8 1997 Nov 11 El- Amin, Theresea, Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 9 2000 Nov 25 Gonsalves, Tony - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 10 1997 Nov 03 Hoolihan, Pat, Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) (Contains Original Cassette Tape) 1 11 undated Jewish Americans, Photos from Images of American Radicalism 1 12 1999 Oct 20 Landan, Rick - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 13 1984 Aug 03 Martland, Douglas - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 14 2000 Dec 06 Matteos, Salah - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 15 1986 May 24 McElroy, Ed - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 16 1999 Oct 28 Miller, Linda - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 17 1983 Sep 29 Mulvey, Joseph - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 18 undated Negative Copies from 'Images of American Radicalism" 1 19 1984 Sep 29 Odsen, Martin - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 1 20 undated Olneyville Address, Rough Draft by Paul Buhle 1 21 1983-2002 Oral History Interview Tapes, Oral History of Rhode Island Labor 1 22 undated Oral History of Rhode Island Labor: Guide to the Collection, Paul Buhle 1 22a undated Oversize Photos from "Images of American Radicalism" 1 23 2002 Dec 06 Pereira, Jenny - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 2 24 undated Photos from "Images of American Radicalism 2 25 undated Photos from "Images of American Radicalism 2 26 undated Photos from "Images of American Radicalism 3 26a undated Photos from "Images of American Radicalism 3 27 2002 Oct 16 Rayner, Doug - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 3 28 1985 Jun 13 Rigney, James - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 3 29 1995 Russian Americans, Photos from 'Images of American Radicalism" 3 30 1984 May 06 Scunzio, John - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 3 31 1985 Jul 30 Shelton, Henry - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 3 32 undated Socialism, Photos from Images of American Radicalism 3 33 1997 Oct 01 Tetrault, Fr. Raymond - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Interview) 3 34 1992 "Vanishing Rhode Island" Exhibit Information and Photos, Paul Buhle 3 35 1999 Mar 02 Volunteers in Public Schools - Paul Buhle Oral History of Rhode Island Labor (Group Interview) Series 2 Labor History Cassette Tapes1904-1977, 1994, scattered, undated

In Series II, there are numerous cassette tapes containing miscellaneous oral history interviews (not pertaining to the project in Series I), and recordings of talks and lectures given about issues in labor history, including "Labor and Communism" and "Labor and Organizing."

 1 1 undated Unknown Tape 1 2 1976 Oct 14 Manny Cunha Interview 1 3 [19??] Nov 18 Rick Brooks - Childhood, parents (Side A), Travel, Brown, RIWA (Side B) 1 4 [19??] Jul 19 Talk (Sides 1 & 2) 1 5 undated Jack Chatfield (Sides A & B) (Tape 1) 1 6 undated Jack Chatfield (Sides A & B) (Tape 2) 1 7 undated Jack Chatfield (Sides A & B) (Tape 3) 1 8 undated Jack Chatfield (Sides A & B) (Tape 4) 1 9 undated Irwin Becker (Sides A & B) (Tape 1) 1 10 undated Irwin Becker (Sides A & B) (Tape 2) 1 11 1946, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1955, undated Labor & Organizing #1 (Side 1: John L. Lewis (undated), Emil Rieve (1950), Anderson CCC (1946), George Baldanzi (1949, 1952), Walter Reuther (1955)) 1 12 1957, 1967, 1974 Labor & Organizing #1 (Side 2: William Kircher (1967), Cesar Chavez (1967, 1974), Frank Fitzsimmons (1974), Don MacDonald (1957)) 1 13 1946-1952 Labor & Taft-Hartley #2 (Side 1: Harry Truman (1946, 1947), Robert Taft (1946), William Green (1948), Phil Murray (1949), Emil Rieve (1950), John L. Lewis (1951), Dwight Eisenhower (1952)) 1 14 1955, 1963, 1966 Labor & Taft-Hartley #2 (Side 2: Al Hayes (1955), Nelson Rockefeller (1963), George Meany (1966)) 1 15 1949, 1959, undated Labor & Communism #3 (Side 1: 1949 CIO Convention, George Baldanzi (1949), John Stanley (1949), Jack Knight (undated), Ben Gold (undated), Emil Rieve (undated), Reuther on Khrushchev (1959)) 1 16 1955, 1959, 1961 Labor & Communism #3 (Side 2: Reuther on Khrushchev, cont., John F. Kennedy (1961), J. Addington Wagner (1955), Omer Becu (1955), George Meany (1961)) 1 17 1955, 1963, 1968 AFL-CIO Merger/UAW Split #4 (Side 1: George Meany (1955, 1963), Walter Reuther (1955, 1968), Eleanor Roosevelt (1955)) 1 18 1977 AFL-CIO Merger/UAW Split #4 (Side 2: Douglas Fraser (1977)) 1 19 1957 McClellan Committee & Teamsters Expulsion #5 (Side 1: Dave Beck (1957), Walter Reuther (1957), James Hoffa (1957)) 1 20 1957, 1963 McClellan Committee & Teamsters Expulsion #5 (Side 2: John J. Murphy (1957), Einar Mohn (1957), John English (1957), George Meany (1957), James Hoffa (1963)) 1 21 1955, 1959 Labor and Civil Rights #6 (Side 1: George Meany (1955, 1959), A. P. Randolph (1959), Joseph Curran (1959), James Carey (1959)) 1 22 1961, 1963, 1968, 1969 Labor and Civil Rights #6 (Side 2: Martin L. King (1961, 1963, 1968), Bayard Rustin (1969), Jerry Wurf (1963)) 1 23 1918, 1941, 1942, 1944 Labor and the War Effort #7 (Side 1: Samual Gompers (1918), F. D. Roosevelt (1941), William Green (1942), George Meany (1942, 1944), Sidney William (1942)) 1 24 1918, 1941, 1942, 1944 Labor and the War Effort #7 (Side 1: Samual Gompers (1918), F. D. Roosevelt (1941), William Green (1942), George Meany (1942, 1944), Sidney William (1942)) 1 25 1950, 1965, 1971 Labor and Foreign Policy #8 (Side 1: Emil Rieve (1950), George Meany (1965), H. Humphrey (1965), Walter Reuther (1965), Emil Mazey (1965), Jerry Wurf (1971)) 1 26 1967, 1975 Labor and Foreign Policy #8 (Side 2: George Meany (1975), Norman Thomas (1967)) 1 27 1896, 1906, 1912, 1945 Early Social Issues and Labor #9 (Side 1: W. J. Bryan (1896, 1912), W. H. Taft (1906, 1912), T. Roosevelt (1912), W. Wilson (1912), F. LaGuardia (1945)) 1 28 1904, 1939, 1960 Early Social Issues and Labor #9 (Side 2: Eugene V. Debs (1904), Tom Mooney (1939), Upton Sinclair, King Coal (1960), Fliver King (1960), The Jungle (1960)) 1 29 1977 Oct 20 Siste (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 1) 1 30 undated Siste (Side 1 & 2)) (Tape 2) 1 31 undated Siste (Side 1 & 2) (Tape 3) 1 32 1977 Dec 02 Louigi Nardella (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 1) 1 33 1977 May 12 Louigi Nardella (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 2) 1 34 1977 May 12 Louigi Nardella (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 3) 1 35 1977 Dec 02 Louigi Nardella (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 4) 1 36 undated Louigi Nardella (Sides 1 & 2) (Tape 5) 1 37 undated Eugene Debs, "Winning a World for Socialism" (Side A), William Verrings Bryant (Side B) 1 38 1994 May 14 Fifth Annual New England Labor History Conference, The Great Depression and the Rise of Organized Labor: Oral History of the 1930s: Union Activists of the 1930s Recall Our Labor History (Lawrence Spitz, Anne Burlak Timpson, Jim Bollen, Nick Aiello) (Tape 1 39 1994 May 14 Fifth Annual New England Labor History Conference, The Great Depression and the Rise of Organized Labor: Oral History of the 1930s: Union Activists of the 1930s Recall Our Labor History (Lawrence Spitz, Anne Burlak Timpson, Jim Bollen, Nick Aiello) (Tape 1 40 1994 May 13 Fifth Annual New England Labor History Conference, The Great Depression and the Rise of Organized Labor: Joseph Sullivan, Labor Historian Coxey's Army Thru Rhode Island: 1894, A Centennial Observance 1 41 undated La Survivance 1 42 undated Right & Might 1 43 undated M. Van Leestan - OIC 1 44 undated The Lawrence Strike of 1912 1 45 1976 Oct 27, undated Interview with James Joseph Quinn (undated) (Side A), Interview with James John Lombardi (1976 Oct 27) (Side B) 1 46 1976 Jan 28 Interview with William R. Thompson (Side A & B) 1 47 undated Interview with William R. Thompson (2nd interview) (Side A & B)