Transgender Tapestry, a run of 13 magazines spanning 1983 to 2002, trace the editorial and political development of a major U.S. transgender periodical from the Tiffany Club era of “the magazine for persons interested in transvestism & transsexualism” to the later IFGE-era language of “Celebrating the Diversity of Gender Expression.”.....
[Counterculture] Open City underground newspaper archive, an iconic Los Angeles countercultural journalism during the late 1960s expansion of the underground press and New Left activism. Open City was a weekly alternative newspaper covering politics, counterculture, and arts during the Vietnam War era. The paper gained national visibility through the involvement.....
Burroughs, William S. Junkie, 1953, published under the name William Lee, documents mid twentieth century American drug culture through a first person narrative drawn from the author’s experience with heroin use and distribution in New York. The work establishes Burroughs within the emerging Beat literary circle and precedes his later.....
[Counterculture] [LGBTQ] [Print Culture] Various editors. The Southern California Oracle (Issues 5–7, 1967) documents the Los Angeles branch of the psychedelic underground press and provides direct evidence of the ideas, aesthetics, and social experiments associated with the late 1960s counterculture following the Summer of Love. Modeled after the San Francisco.....
2600: The Hacker Quarterly which document the technical practice of hacking ranging from telephone and computer systems, networks, encryption, consumer hardware to the legal and political questions it raised, from the status of code as speech to state surveillance. Archive of 10 issues. This run of ten issues, spanning Fall.....
New York Peace Action Coalition. National Antiwar Convention poster. 1971. Produced in the immediate aftermath of the May Day protests, this poster documents antiwar organizing at a moment of intensified confrontation between activists and federal authority, when mass arrests in Washington, D.C. drew national attention to draft resistance and civil.....
2600: The Hacker Quarterly archive of issues documenting the technical practice of hacking, ranging from phone phreaking, telephone and network investigation, encryption, and consumer hardware to the legal and political questions it raised, from the status of code as speech to state surveillance, as the magazine moved from the analog.....
Haight-Ashbury Free Press; Haight-Ashbury Eye; Haight Ashbury Tribune. Group of three underground newspapers published between 1967 and 1970, documenting countercultural communication systems and grassroots organizing in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. The material documents the system of alternative press networks through tabloid-format publications, revealing how activists, artists, and community members disseminated.....
New York antiwar protest press archive documenting mass demonstrations, sit-down actions, police removals, and public opposition to war and militarization from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The archive records the city as a major stage for peace activism, where demonstrators used marches, occupations, and passive resistance to challenge nuclear.....
Stecyk, C.R.; Ancell, Kevin; Rodriguez, Spain; et al. Thrasher Comics. Six issues published between 1988 and 1990, documenting the convergence of skateboarding culture, punk aesthetics, and underground comics in late twentieth-century San Francisco. Produced as an extension of Thrasher Magazine, the series reflects a distinct countercultural sphere defined by anti-authoritarian.....
OZ Magazine. Archive of six issues from the London edition of the influential underground periodical published between 1967 and 1973, documenting the visual culture, political radicalism, and anti-authoritarian ethos of the international counterculture movement. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the convergence of psychedelic art, antiwar activism.....
CoEvolution Quarterly magazines, 16 issues spanning 1980 to 1984, document the Whole Earth network as it moved from Catalog era tool culture into sustained argument over ecology, social theory, technology, gender, religion, global politics, and emerging information systems. The issues carry Ivan Illich’s “Vernacular Gender,” “Silence is a Commons,” and.....
Overthrow. Archive of eight issues of the underground newspaper published by the Youth International Party (YIP) between 1980 and 1985, documenting systems of radical protest, anarchist organizing, underground journalism, and countercultural activism during the Reagan era. The material documents how the Yippies used independent print networks, graphic propaganda, satire, and.....
Drug education pamphlets issued across the late twentieth century recording the shift from the publicization of recreational drug use in the 1960s into the broader drug crisis language of the crack era and the AIDS years, when intoxication, dependency, overdose, and injection risk became central subjects of school and public.....
Florida antiwar protest press archive documenting demonstrations in Miami Beach during the 1972 Republican National Convention, when activists targeted President Richard Nixon’s renomination after years of bombing, troop deployments, and stalled peace negotiations in Vietnam. Protesters gathered outside convention sites, government buildings, and public streets to oppose the war, challenge.....
CoEvolution Quarterly Collection, Stewart Brand’s experimental 1970s periodical for the post-Whole Earth counterculture, a Sausalito-based forum where ecology, science, technology, land use, alternative energy, feminist thought, systems theory, and media criticism were argued in print media. This 13 issue run captures the magazine’s strongest late-1970s editorial range, with Gregory Bateson’s.....
Student Peace Union, SANE, Women Strike for Peace, and Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Vietnam antiwar ephemera archive, 1965 and 1966, documents the early system of Vietnam War opposition before mass antiwar demonstrations became the movement’s dominant public form. The archive shows the mechanisms of early peace mobilization.....
California protest press photo archive documenting antiwar, anti nuclear, and student civil disobedience demonstrations during the height of Cold War anxiety and the emerging student protest culture of the 1960s. The group captures demonstrators participating in nuclear disarmament activism, mass public protest, and sit in actions connected to broader fears.....
Mary Jane Superweed. The Marijuana Consumer’s and Dealer’s Guide; The Complete Cannabis Cultivator; Drug Manufacturing for Fun and Profit. These late 1960s to early 1970s underground publications document illicit drug knowledge dissemination networks within the American counterculture, specifically the informal systems through which cannabis use, cultivation, and psychedelic drug production.....
Archive of anti-Vietnam War organizing literature documenting systems of grassroots protest coordination, student mobilization, and peace coalition activism in Ohio between 1969 and 1971. The material documents how antiwar organizations, student groups, clergy, labor activists, and peace coalitions coordinated demonstrations, conferences, transportation logistics, and public outreach campaigns opposing United States.....
Blacklisted! 411 archive of eight periodicals produced as part of a countercultural shared conviction that the telecommunications and computing systems proliferating through the 1990s should be understood by their users rather than treated as closed corporate property. The West Coast publication discusses phone phreaking (manipulating the telephone network), bulletin-board networks.....
Dunker, Thomas W., and Robert M. Dunker. Horseshit: The Offensive Review. Archive of the complete four-issue run of the underground countercultural magazine published in Hermosa Beach, California between 1965 and 1969. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the confrontational aesthetics, anti-authoritarian politics, and underground publishing culture associated.....
[Propaganda][Counterculture] Ты / Uncle Sam Wants You! New York: International Poster Corp., 1968. Offset lithographic poster in red, black, and cream tones, measuring 21 x 29 inches. A striking Cold War-era visual pastiche that fuses Soviet revolutionary imagery with American military propaganda, this poster was issued during a peak moment.....
[Anti-War][Vietnam War] [Counterculture] Stop the War poster, c. 1970. Lithographic print. Measures approx. 23" x 34". Dated in pen in upper right corner "5/9/70". Powerful anti-war protest poster from the Vietnam War era, featuring bold red brushstroke-style text reading "Stop the War." above a large peace symbol integrated into the.....
[Counterculture] Archive of five 1966 issues of The Realist, the groundbreaking satirical and political magazine founded by Paul Krassner. Known for its radical, leftist stance and boundary-pushing commentary, The Realist was a critical voice in the countercultural movements of the 1960s, blending investigative journalism with dark humor and unflinching critiques.....
