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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss B 133 Smith, Melvin T. Melvin T. Smith Papers, 1964-1984 0.5 lin. ft. (1 box) Professor of history at Dixie College, director of Utah State Historical Society. Correspondence, essays, speeches, notes on the radical right. Topics: Conservatism. Historians. Historiography. Mormons and Mormonism -- History. Right (Political Science). Persons: Marston, Otis R. Organizations: Dixie College (St. George, Utah). Background Biographical Note

Professor of history at Dixie College, director of Utah State Historical Society.

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Correspondence, essays, speeches, notes on the radical right.

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Melvin T. Smith Papers, 1964-1984, Utah State Historical Society.

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 Container list Box Folder Contents Miscellaneous records 1 1 Correspondence, 1964-1980 1 2 Correspondence with Otis "Dock" Marston, 1966-1972 1 3 Speech, "Dominquez-Escalante, 1776-1976," 1974 1 4-5 Manuscripts 1 4- 5 1 "Faithful History/Secular Faith," 6 May 1983 1 4- 5 2 Undated mss., galleys of mss., Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1983 1 4- 5 3 "History - As a Quality of the Present," 22 June 1982 1 4- 5 4 "Basic Reality - Perception," 25 August 1982 1 4- 5 5 " The Believing Mormon Historians' Dilemmas, May 1984 [abstract] 1 4- 5 6 "The Believing Mormon Historians' Dilemmas," undated 1 4- 5 7 Thomas Alexander, "Comment on Smith and Underwood Papers," 6 May 1984 1 4- 5 8 Accompanying correspondence, 1982-1984 1 6 Dixie College Young Democrats 1 6 1 Correspondence, 1966-1969 1 6 2 Democrat, Provo, Utah, Vol. 1, No. 3, 25 April 1966, Vol. 1, No. 4, 11 May 1966 1 6 3 An open letter to Mr. Dixie Leavitt 1 6 4 1967 YDCA National Committee Meeting — Host Club Assignments 1 6 5 Utah Young Democrats: presidents, vice presidents, state officers 1 7 Democratic Central Committee 1 7 1 Correspondence, 1968 1 7 2 Dixie College Faculty 1 7 3 List of supporters, contributions 1 8 Southern Utah Teachers Association 1 8 1 Announcement of candidacy for vice- president 1 8 2 Southern Utah Teachers Board list of members 1 8 3 Utah Education Association notes 1 8 4 Program for S.U.T.A., 6 May 1967 1 9-10 Public History Conference 1 9- 10 1 Summary, purpose and rationale 1 9- 10 2 Public Policy M- 446, Uses of History: General Information, Spring 1980 1 9- 10 3 M-446 - Uses of History, Assignment for Session 2 1 9- 10 4 Johnson, G. Wesley, "The Need to Develop a Special Curriculum for Public History," draft for presentation at the National Conference on Public History, 1980 1 9- 10 5 Stearns, Peter, "An Undergraduate Focus for Applied History" 1 9- 10 6 Solberg, Carl E., "Building a Public History Program in a Metropolitan University," undated 1 11-15 "Utah" WBTS seminar, 1984 [transcript] 1 16 Melvin T. Smith introduction of W. Turrentine Jackson, David E. Miller Lecture, "Salt Lake City: Transportation Depot During the Stagecoach Era," 18 April 1984 1 17-18 Radical Right 1 17- 18 1 Correspondence, 1963 1 17- 18 2 "Ezra Taft Benson's Support of John Birch Society is Criticized," Speech of Hon. Ralph Harding, Congressional Record, 25 September 1963 1 17- 18 3 Benson, Ezra Taft, "A Race Against Time," Speeches of the Year," 10 December 1963 1 17- 18 4 Miscellaneous editorials, newspaper clippings, ca. 1960s 1 17- 18 5 Perkins, Van L., "The Liberal Left: Road to Communism or Bulwark of Defense?" The Western Humanities Review, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Winter 1963 1 17- 18 6 Program for Reed Benson, Washington Report, 1966, Dixie College Auditorium, 20 June 1966 1 17- 18 7 "The Trumpet Gives an Uncertain Sound: A Review of W. Cleon Skousen's The Naked Communist by Richard D. Poll," 1962 1 17- 18 8 "My Reply to Dr. Richard D. Poll and His Critique of The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, undated 1 17- 18 9 W. Cleon Skousen, "The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society,"1963 1 17- 18 10 "The Alien and Sedition Acts: Bastion Against Communism, or when the Red Carpet was still in the pink" 1 17- 18 11 Newspaper clippings 1 17- 18 12 Miscellaneous promotional materials