Patriotism

Scope and Contents This collection includes a collection of certificates, newsletters, pamphlets, postcard, and circular letters compiled by the American Legion Department of Indiana in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1943 to 1963 and undated, regarding World War II war work, conservative Americanism, and a Richmond, Indiana labor union. There are seven newsletters from the Local No. 118 union, a member of the Farm Equipment Division of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a report from Lucile Meisel in South Bend, Indiana in 1932 regarding that year's work of the organization and a scrapbook of newspaper articles ranging from 1932 to 1939 regarding the work of the organization and the lives and deaths of the Civil War veterans living locally.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a press release folder compiled by the National Council for the Encouragement of Patriotism, Inc. to promote the April 20, 1977 kickoff of their national project to "Help Bring a Little Bit More of America Back into the Schools, Libraries, Institutions and Homes" by getting copies of the 12-volume record set, "A History of the United States," placed in schools across America. The promotional packet includes several press releases; a March 9, 1977 form letter signed by...

Scope and Contents This collection contains one broadside published by Humphrey Phelps in 1847 called "Tree of Liberty." It depicts the history of the United States and individual states in a tree format.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a program for Patriotic Day, observed on November 5, 1897 in Indiana public schools and held in connection with the 86th anniversary of the Battle of Tippecanoe. Also included is a typewritten historical sketch regarding the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), with information taken from Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic by W.H. Ward and "The Grand Army of the Republic," an article by G.S. Merrill that was...