Research Catalog

Title

Group Research Inc. records, 1955-1996

Author

Group Research, Inc

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

215

Summary

• Wesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times. Group Research Inc. was based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s. The organization collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, the newspaper "Congressional Record," and magazine clippings and other ephemera. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.
• McCune and his staff catalogued the collection to operate as a fully accessible library, and their organization, including their folder labels, has been maintained as much as possible. Most of the materials are arranged alphabetically by topic (rather than, for example, chronologically) and have been divided into three separate series. Four other series contain volumes of Group Research Report, larger printed works, audio-visual materials, and the Group Research Directory.
• The collection is thoroughly cross-referenced and also contains the Group Research Directory which, dating mostly from the 1960s, provides brief histories of prominent people organizations and publications associated with the right wing. The Group Research Directory can be found in Series VII.

Subjects

• Pressure groups
• Sound recordings
• Political movements > United States
• Republicanism
• Radicalism > United States
• Christian conservatism
• Right-wing extremists > United States
• John Birch Society
• Religious right
• Group Research, Inc
• Right and left (Political science)
• Political parties
• Welch, Robert, 1899-1985
• Conservatism > United States
• Hargis, Billy James, 1925-
• Political culture

Genre/Form

Sound recordings

Access (note)

• This collection has no restrictions.
• The following boxes are located off-site: 1-512. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
• Several items in this collection contain language that can be considered offensive or harmful, including expressions of antisemitism, racism, and other bigoted sentiments. These materials were compiled and made available by Group Research, Inc. as a political research tool for opponents of right-wing extremism during the 1960s-1980s.
• Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized.

Cite As (note)

• Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Group Research Records; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Original Location (note)

• The Card File is on microfilm.

Terms of Use (note)

• Reproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Source (note)

• Source of acquisition--[source of acquisition]. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1996.

Biography (note)

• Wesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times". In addition, McCune worked as well as a staff member of several government agencies and government-related organizations. Based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s Group Research Inc. collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The resulting Group Research archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications correspondence pamphlets reports newspaper "Congressional Record" and magazine clippings and other ephemera. The collection is thoroughly cross-referenced and contains the Group Research Directory which, dating mostly from the 1960s, provides brief histories of prominent people organizations and publications associated with the right wing. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.

Processing Action (note)

• Processed by Patrick Lawlor as GA assistants; addition processed by Alyssa Nicole Meyers 2005.

OCLC

• 645664739
• ocn645664739
• SCSB-5105361

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries