Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd papers
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Materials relating to Dowd's career and writings. Includes correspondence, publications and articles by Dowd and others on various political economic topics, book drafts, book reviews written by Dowd and reviews by others of Dowd's books, materials relating to Dowd's activism some relating to anti-Vietnam war activities and other injustices, including copies of FBI and CIA files. CDs, video, and audio materials relating to Dowd's career. Also, items relating to Thorstein Veblen. Also digital files containing documents, papers, articles, photographs, correspondence of Dowd's as well as audio and video of Dowd's talks and course material. Also copies of the content that appeared on dougdowd.org website managed by Michael Slaughter before it was shut down.
Dates
- 1947-2007.
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Political economist and activist. He taught at Cornell University and served as advisor to the Students for a Democratic Society. In the 1968 US presidential election he was one of the nominees for Vice President as a member of the Peace and Freedom Party.
Extent
4.4 cubic feet. (4.4 cubic feet.)
230 gigabytes. (230 gigabytes.)
Abstract
Materials relating to Dowd's career and writings. Includes correspondence, publications and articles by Dowd and others on various political economic topics, book drafts, book reviews written by Dowd and reviews by others of Dowd's books, materials relating to Dowd's activism some relating to anti-Vietnam war activities and other injustices, including copies of FBI and CIA files. CDs, video, and audio materials relating to Dowd's career. Also, items relating to Thorstein Veblen.
Physical Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, newspapers, publications, legal documents, audio/visual recordings.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- June 2017
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, December 2017
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- June 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu