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Copy of Richard Hofstadter's commencement address at the University of California, Berkeley, in May 1967. Hofstadter discussed academic freedom in the university, touching on many of the same ideas that he would again emphasize at his famous Columbia…

Article in The New York Times, from January 1969, that discusses the major historiographic shifts that were underway in the final years of Richard Hofstadter's life.

Cover page of a draft of Richard Hofstadter's article, "From Calhoun to the Dixiecrats," which appeared in the June 1949 issue of Social Research.

1948 review of The American Political Tradition, with accompanying photograph of Richard Hofstadter. Publication unknown.

Original edition of Richard Hofstadter's famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," which appeared in Harper's magazine, November, 1964.

Richard Hofstadter's senior thesis, written at the University of Buffalo, May, 1936.

National Student League membership application form, 1935. Richard Hofstadter headed the University of Buffalo chapter of the organization that year.

Portrait photograph taken in 1913 of a young H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken working at his typewriter in the Baltimore Sun office. He holds a corncob pipe in his hand. The Sun offices were then located in a building on…

Documents relating to A People and A Nation, a 1971 United States history textbook co-authored by Richard Hofstadter and Clarence ver Steeg.

Composition notebook containing notes for Richard Hofstadter's 1963 book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.

Profile of Richard Hofstadter in Current Biography, October 1956.

Richard Hofstadter's curriculum vitae, drafted in 1970 shortly before his death.

Lecture by Richard Hofstadter translated into German for a radio broadcast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, December 4, 1959. Published by Amerika-Haus Köln, February 1960).

Advertisement for Social Darwinism In American Thought, early 1940s.

Japanese edition of Richard Hofstadter's Age of Reform, printed in 1967.

Illustrations from promotional materials for The American Republic, a history textbook by Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Aaron, and William Miller.

Full text of the unpublished introduction to Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It.

Advertisement and review of Richard Hofstadter's book The Progressive Historians, 1968.

Reviews of Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.

Hostile letter to Richard Hofstadter in response to his 1948 book, The American Political Tradition.

Notes taken by Richard Hofstadter on President Andrew Jackson, for chapter 3 of his book, The American Political Tradition,entitled "Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism"

Cover image of Felice Swados's Reform School Girl from 1948, originally published in 1941 as House of Fury.

Announcement of a lecture, by Richard Hofstadter, entitled "The Place of Principle in Politics," appearing in Town Hall (Los Angeles), March 13, 1962. In his lecture, Hofstadter discussed the problem of the conflation of morality with politics in the…

Felice Swados Writing Novel, 1940. Oil on canvas by Margaret LeFranc.