Call Number:

DG.297

Repository:

Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Extent:

4.5 linear ft. (13 document boxes)

Language Note:

Materials are in English.

Preferred Citation:

Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Michael S. Foley Research Files (DG 297), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Date:

1965-2007 (inclusive)

Creator:

Foley, Michael S.

Abstract:

Michael S. Foley is an author, primarily about the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.

Michael S. Foley is the author of Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War (2003), and of Dear Dr. Spock: Letters About the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor (2005).

The collection contains correspondence with participants in the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BDRG), who Foley contacted for research on his dissertation, and later book, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003). In addition to the correspondence, the collection includes questionnaires, transcripts of interviews, and secondary source research material. Some original flyers and publications from the 1960s are found with the research materials.

This collection consists first of 11 boxes arranged by correspondence; then a series of transcripts of interviews of BDRG members, between 1997 and 2001, organized alphabetically by the last name of the interviewee; questionnaires used by Foley for the interviews, organized by an internal numbering system; some Boston Support Committee records; and a set of reference files covering the BDRG, local Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts issues during the Vietnam war, and items by or about BDRG members. Two boxes were added in 2017.