University Archives & Special Collections

This collection includes homemade and official campaign materials, along with some voting materials and items related to the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Delegate and attendee materials from the California Democratic Party's 2017 annual convention in Sacramento, California.

Collection of research papers on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade created by former faculty Cameron Stewart.

The DNC 2016 Collection largely consists of Convention materials held and handled by Sanders and Clinton delegates on the Convention Floor. Materials include protest signage, official DNC rally signs, campaign buttons, and official Delegate items.

A vast and unique collection of political campaign materials, newsletters, newspapers, journals, books, pamphlets, videos, flyers, and posters for the study of 20th Century alternative political, social, and religious movements.

The Liberation News Service was founded in 1967 by Marshall Bloom and Raymond Mungo. Two or three times a week, printed packets were sent to hundreds of underground press subscribers, providing news and information on the radical, New Left, anti-war, and counter-culture movements. LNS staff writers and editors also promoted activism in social change, including homosexual rights, third world liberation movements, and feminism. In covering racism, sexism and homophobia issues but also the prison reform movement, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, South African apartheid, and U.S. interventions in Latin America, LNS definitively contributed to spur new generations of activists. The LNS was most active in the late-1960s and early-1970s and continued to send material to subscribers till it ended operations in 1981.

The Benedict Collection was originally called University of Nevada’s Contemporary Issues Collection and it was founded and curated by Russell G. Benedict. He collected periodicals, clippings, pamphlets, brochures and books focusing on the Civil Rights Movement, organized labor activities anti-Communist groups and extremist groups on either side of the political spectrum who targeted particular racial or religious groups or activities in hate literature and/or violent actions.

This collection highlights a few materials from the post-primary presidential campaigns. Included is Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party (former secretary of state), Donald Trump of the Republican Party (real estate mogul), Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party (former Governor of New Mexico), and Jill Stein of the Green Party (activist).