Robert Alan Goldberg papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 0731
Scope and Contents
The Robert Alan Goldberg papers (1880-2019) house materials gathered by Goldberg while researching information for his books, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World, Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, and Barry Goldwater.
The materials for the book, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and Their World, are housed in boxes 1-4. Clarion was a Jewish agricultural settlement which existed from 1912 to 1915, with the last members leaving in the 1920s. It was led by Benjamin Brown and other Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Russia and Poland. The colony received homestead land from the state of Utah and tried to establish an agricultural Jewish community near Gunnison in Sanpete County. The small community failed shortly after being established because of poor soil, lack of water, physical hardships, and discontent among its members. Box 1 includes the initial research proposal, and the diaries, monographs, and transcripts of interviews used to form the basis of the book. Most of these papers are in Yiddish with English translations, and were written by the leaders of the agriculture experiment. Box 2 holds two drafts of Goldberg's book. Boxes 3-4 contain correspondence with and written recollections from the survivors of Clarion and or their family members. This material is organized alphabetically by family name.
The materials for Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America are housed in boxes 5-21. They consist of brochures, newsletters, newspapers, and membership applications from activist groups. Magazine articles and news clippings about the activities of these academic, political, religious, and or radical organizations from the 1960s-1970s era are also included. Some of the groups represented are the National Socialist White People's Party, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the National Organization for Women, and the Rainbow Family of Living Light. Box 5 has material on African American history and the civil rights movement from 1968 to 1972. Boxes 6-14 contain information on the various activist groups and are arranged alphabetically by group name. Box 15 houses information on activist causes prevalent in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Boxes 16-20 hold 110 different newspapers from this same era. The newspapers are from Cuba, China, Vietnam, and the activist syndicated underground press, as well as some established American newspapers. The newspaper publications are listed in alphabetical order by their published trade name with a cross reference to the publishing organization in the folder description.
Addenda to the collection includes other research and general materials.
The materials for the book, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and Their World, are housed in boxes 1-4. Clarion was a Jewish agricultural settlement which existed from 1912 to 1915, with the last members leaving in the 1920s. It was led by Benjamin Brown and other Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Russia and Poland. The colony received homestead land from the state of Utah and tried to establish an agricultural Jewish community near Gunnison in Sanpete County. The small community failed shortly after being established because of poor soil, lack of water, physical hardships, and discontent among its members. Box 1 includes the initial research proposal, and the diaries, monographs, and transcripts of interviews used to form the basis of the book. Most of these papers are in Yiddish with English translations, and were written by the leaders of the agriculture experiment. Box 2 holds two drafts of Goldberg's book. Boxes 3-4 contain correspondence with and written recollections from the survivors of Clarion and or their family members. This material is organized alphabetically by family name.
The materials for Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America are housed in boxes 5-21. They consist of brochures, newsletters, newspapers, and membership applications from activist groups. Magazine articles and news clippings about the activities of these academic, political, religious, and or radical organizations from the 1960s-1970s era are also included. Some of the groups represented are the National Socialist White People's Party, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Christian Anti-Communists Crusade, Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the National Organization for Women, and the Rainbow Family of Living Light. Box 5 has material on African American history and the civil rights movement from 1968 to 1972. Boxes 6-14 contain information on the various activist groups and are arranged alphabetically by group name. Box 15 houses information on activist causes prevalent in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Boxes 16-20 hold 110 different newspapers from this same era. The newspapers are from Cuba, China, Vietnam, and the activist syndicated underground press, as well as some established American newspapers. The newspaper publications are listed in alphabetical order by their published trade name with a cross reference to the publishing organization in the folder description.
Addenda to the collection includes other research and general materials.
Dates
- 1880-2019
Creator
- Goldberg, Robert Alan, 1949- (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical Sketch
Robert Alan Goldberg was born on August 16, 1949 in New York City. He received his bachelor of arts in 1971 from Arizona State University and his master of arts and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972 and 1977, respectively. A faculty member at the University of Utah since 1980, Goldberg has served on the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate, the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, the Teaching Committee, the Undergraduate Council and the Committee for the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. He is the Director of the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.
Goldberg has received several awards throughout his career, beginning in 1987 with the Ramona Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He has also received: the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991; the University of Utah Presidential Teaching Scholar Award in 1993; and the Honors Program Teaching Award in 1994. He was awarded the University of Utah's Hatch Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the history department's graduate students Virgil Award for Mentoring in 1994, 1997 and 2005. In 2003, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden and most recently, was recognized by the Mormon History Association as one of the premier defenders of religious tolerance at the University of Utah, awarding him the 2007 Thomas L. Kane Award.
He is the author of eight books, including: Hooded Empire, which concerns the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado during the 1920s; Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and their World, which traces a group of 200 Jewish immigrant families from Russia, through the eastern ghettos of America, to a socialist farm colony founded in the Utah desert in 1911; and Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America which considers such groups as the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party, the John Birch Society, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the National Organization for Women. In 1995 Goldberg completed Barry Goldwater, a biography of the Arizona senator and republican presidential candidate and in 2001, published Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, which analyzes the saturation of popular culture and cyberspace with conspiracy theories.
(Biographical sketch created from the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence.)
Goldberg has received several awards throughout his career, beginning in 1987 with the Ramona Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He has also received: the University of Utah Distinguished Teaching Award in 1991; the University of Utah Presidential Teaching Scholar Award in 1993; and the Honors Program Teaching Award in 1994. He was awarded the University of Utah's Hatch Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the history department's graduate students Virgil Award for Mentoring in 1994, 1997 and 2005. In 2003, he was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden and most recently, was recognized by the Mormon History Association as one of the premier defenders of religious tolerance at the University of Utah, awarding him the 2007 Thomas L. Kane Award.
He is the author of eight books, including: Hooded Empire, which concerns the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado during the 1920s; Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and their World, which traces a group of 200 Jewish immigrant families from Russia, through the eastern ghettos of America, to a socialist farm colony founded in the Utah desert in 1911; and Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America which considers such groups as the Industrial Workers of the World, the Communist Party, the John Birch Society, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the National Organization for Women. In 1995 Goldberg completed Barry Goldwater, a biography of the Arizona senator and republican presidential candidate and in 2001, published Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, which analyzes the saturation of popular culture and cyberspace with conspiracy theories.
(Biographical sketch created from the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence.)
Extent
45 Linear Feet (87 boxes and 5 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Robert Alan Goldberg papers (1880-2019) house materials gathered by Goldberg while researching information for his books, Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World, Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America, Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, and Barry Goldwater. Goldberg is a professor of history at the University of Utah whose specialities include American social movements and the American West.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Boxes 1-4 and 5-20 were donated in 1982 and 1996 (10.75 linear feet).
Boxes 21-42 were donated in 2001 (circa 11 linear feet).
Box 43 was donated in 2007 (0.5 linear feet).
Boxes 44-48 were donated in 2008 (2.5 linear feet).
Boxes 49-91 were donated in 2019 (21 linear feet).
Boxes 21-42 were donated in 2001 (circa 11 linear feet).
Box 43 was donated in 2007 (0.5 linear feet).
Boxes 44-48 were donated in 2008 (2.5 linear feet).
Boxes 49-91 were donated in 2019 (21 linear feet).
Separated Materials
See also the Robert Alan Goldberg photograph collection (P0658) and the Robert Alan Goldberg audio collection (A0415) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Jane Chesley in 1997.
Addenda processed by Henrietta Oyula, Elizabeth Rogers, and Julia Huddleston in 2002, 2008, and 2009.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.
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Addenda processed by Henrietta Oyula, Elizabeth Rogers, and Julia Huddleston in 2002, 2008, and 2009.
Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2020.
Click here to read a statement on harmful language in library records.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Sources
- African Americans -- Utah -- Sources
- Anti-communist movements -- Sources
- Anti-fascist movements -- Periodicals
- Antisemitism -- Sources
- Awards
- Biographies
- Black Muslims -- Periodicals
- Christian conservatism -- Sources
- Clarion Colony (Utah) -- Sources
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Conspiracy theories -- Sources
- Counterculture -- Periodicals
- Goldberg, Robert Alan, 1949- -- Archives
- Goldberg, Robert Alan, 1949- -- Grassroots resistance : social movements in twentieth century America
- Goldberg, Robert Alan, 1949- -- Back to the soil : the Jewish farmers of Clarion, Utah and their world
- Goldwater, Barry, 1938- -- Sources
- Hispanic Americans -- Periodicals
- Indians of North America -- Periodicals
- Interviews
- Jewish farmers -- Utah -- Clarion Colony -- History -- Sources
- Jews -- Colonization -- Utah -- Clarion Colony -- History -- Sources
- Jews -- Utah -- Clarion Colony -- History -- Sources
- Jews -- Utah -- Interviews
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Sources
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Sources
- Labor unions -- Periodicals
- Newsletters
- Newspapers
- Pamphlets
- Periodicals
- Personal papers
- Research (documents)
- Research (documents)
- Social Classes
- Social movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Social movements -- United States -- Sources
- Underground press publications -- United States
- Unidentified flying objects -- Sources
- University of Utah -- Faculty -- Archives
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Periodicals
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Sources
Creator
- Goldberg, Robert Alan, 1949- (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Robert Alan Goldberg papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Jane Chesley, Henrietta Oyula, Elizabeth Rogers, Julia Huddleston and Betsey Welland.
- Date
- 1997 (last modified: 2002-2019)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2002-2009: Finding aid revised and updated by Henrietta Oyula, Elizabeth Rogers, Julia Huddleston and Betsey Welland.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu