Richard Drinnon papers, 1901-2012

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Drinnon, Richard
Title
Richard Drinnon papers
Dates
1901-2012 (inclusive)
1960-1990 (bulk)
Quantity
3.42 cubic feet (4 boxes)
Collection Number
5779
Summary
Papers of academic, author and anarchist Richard Drinnon
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to all users.

Additional Reference Guides

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Richard Drinnon (1925-2012) was an academic, author, and anarchist. Drinnon received his PhD in History from the University of Minnesota in 1957. In 1961, while a professor at the University of California, Berkeley it was discovered that Drinnon was the second target of a shooter attempting to kill those associated with communism. During the 1968 anti-Vietnam protests taking place at colleges and universities across the country Drinnon participated in a walkout on Vice President Hubert Humphrey's speech at Bucknell University where Drinnon spent most of his career as a professor of history. With wife and occasional co-author Anna Maria, Drinnon had two children, Donna and Jon. Drinnon died in 2012 in Port Orford, Oregon.

Drinnon's best known works include Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman (1982), and Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism (1987), working to chronicle the life of Myer, chief of the Japanese internment effort as the director of the War Relocation Authority. Other books include Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (1997).

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Correspondence, writings, notes, research, academic administrative and book project files from 1960 to 1990.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Accession No. 5779-001: Richard Drinnon papers, 1901-2012 (bulk 1960-1990)Return to Top

3.42 cubic feet (4 boxes)

Scope and Content: Correspondence, writings, notes, research, academic administrative and book project files from 1960 to 1990.

Restrictions on Access: Open to all users

Restrictions on Use: Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Acquisition Info: Donor: Donna Drinnon; transferred by Mark and Deirdre Lankton, Port Orford, Oregon, June 1, 2013.

Processing Info: Minimally processed by Alexandra Rihm, summer 2013.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder Accession
1/1-8 5779-001
Correspondence, sorted alphabetically
Restrictions on Access:
1/9 5779-001
History 205: History of the American West
1/10 5779-001
Vietnam Talk
1983
1/11 5779-001
Vietnam Talk
c. 1967-1971
1/12 5779-001
Vietnam Talks, etc.
1969
1/13 5779-001
Pentagon sit-in
1967
1/14 5779-001
Vietnam Clippings
1/15 5779-001
Strike
1970
1/16 5779-001
Moratorium/Mobilization
1/17 5779-001
History 245: The Sixties
1/18 5779-001
Consensus and Resistance
1/19 5779-001
Countercultures: Old and New Lefts
1/20 5779-001
Clippings: Book Reviews
1/21 5779-001
Michael Drosnin, "Citizen Hughes"
1/22 5779-001
Chessman
1960
1/23 5779-001
Farmer, John Harrison
1961
1/24 5779-001
Dialectics of Liberation
Berkeley Firing
Box/Folder Accession
1/25 5779-001
Status
1/26 5779-001
UC Grad Students
1/27 5779-001
The 'Plot' Trial, R. Drinnon
1971-1972
Box/Folder Accession
1/28 5779-001
Hobart-Bucknell
1966
1/29 5779-001
Convocation/Humphrey Repercussions
May 4, 1968
1/30 5779-001
Humphrey
1968
1/31 5779-001
Juvenilia
1/32 5779-001
Manuscript- General
1/33 5779-001
Drinnon Family Record/Genealogy
2/1 5779-001
Offprints; MSS
2/2 5779-001
Recommendations
2/3 5779-001
Fellowships/grants (graduate)- NEH
2/4 5779-001
Civil Disobedience
University Free Speech and Free Press
Box/Folder Accession
2/5-6 5779-001
Students
2/7 5779-001
Education
2/8 5779-001
Academic Freedom
2/9 5779-001
Students, misc
Box/Folder Accession
2/10 5779-001
Slate Reunion
2/11 5779-001
Dogs
2/12 5779-001
Northwest Indians
Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism
Box/Folder Accession
2/13 5779-001
Letters
2/14 5779-001
Notices, Reviews, and Advertisements
2/15 5779-001
Letters about Keeper...
2/16-17 5779-001
University of California Press
Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
Box/Folder Accession
2/18 5779-001
Facing West: University of Oklahoma Press
3/1 5779-001
Facing West: Pantheon/Schocken
1990
3/2 5779-001
Facing West: University of Minnesota Press
3/3 5779-001
Facing West: New American Library (NAL) and Harper & Row
3/4 5779-001
Correspondence
3/5 5779-001
Reviews
3/6 5779-001
Style sheet and illustrations
Box/Folder Accession
3/7 5779-001
Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman clippings and articles
some 1961, mostly recent
Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile
Box/Folder Accession
3/8 5779-001
Reviews, letters, and current Emma Goldman/Alexander Berkman
3/9 5779-001
Correspondence and corrections
Box/Folder Accession
3/10 5779-001
White Savage: The Case of John Dunn Hunter Reviews and Letters
3/11 5779-001
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America Reviews
3/12-13 5779-001
Schocken Correspondence
1971-1979
Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman
Box/Folder Accession
3/14 5779-001
Reviews and Letters
3/15 5779-001
Rights, corrections, Harper contract, Chicago licensing agreement, 1989 copyright renewal
Box/Folder Accession
3/16 5779-001
Living My Life New American Library (NAL) contract
3/17 5779-001
University of Chicago Press: reprints and contracts
1967-1983
3/18 5779-001
University of Chicago Press correspondence
pre 1967
3/19 5779-001
Dancing Tribes/Crazy Horse
3/20 5779-001
Meeropol/Radosh
3/21 5779-001
About Sacco and Vanzetti
3/22 5779-001
Emma Goldman
3/23 5779-001
The Kansas City Weekly Journal featuring article "Behind the Bars" about Emma Goldman's arrest
General Notes: This newspaper is meant to serve as an artifact in this collection. To read the article please see the scanned copy in the folder 24.
Thursday September 12, 1901
3/24 5779-001
Emma Goldman article "Behind the Bars" copied from The Kansas City Weekly Journal
3/25-29 5779-001
Miscellaneous papers and clippings
4 5779-001
Marginalia and Miscellany
Scope and Content: This box contains articles, notes, and other items placed by Drinnon in the books used in his research, as well as copies of significant marginalia and notes written by Drinnon in the back of these books. Sorted by topic, these items cover Drinnon's research on Native Americans, Japanese internment, and Emma Goldman. Also included in this box is, left intact, the most heavily notated of the books, Drinnon's copy of Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II by Roger Daniels. Additionally, this box contains a copy of The Massachusetts Review, vol. 16, no. 4 (Autumn 1975) with Drinnon's "The Metaphysics of Empire-Building: American Imperialism in th Age of Jefferson and Monroe."

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Drinnon, Richard--Archives