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Date range: 1892-2004.

Includes the following publications: Federal Prisons: Articles and Pamphlets, Hiss Case: Fearon, Edwin H. Document Comparison Charts and others.

Reproduction of the original from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

On August 2, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a confessed former communist, appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) and accused Alger Hiss (1904-1996), a former Roosevelt era State Department official, of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. Chambers' allegation and Hiss's denial set the stage for what has since become known as the "Hiss-Chambers controversy." Although statutes of limitations had expired for espionage Hiss was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. The Alger Hiss Papers from the Tamiment Library Collection is a compilation of material selected from four archival collections: the Hiss Family Papers, the John Lowenthal Papers, the Agnese Nelms Haury Papers and the William A. Reuben Papers. Each series reproduced has been filmed in its entirety. Material selected for filming consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of Alger Hiss and members of the Hiss family, interview transcripts, legal documents, and memorabilia, as well as non-Hiss correspondence and research material which sheds light on Hiss's life and later efforts to reopen and re-examine the Hiss Case.

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Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements

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