Politics and government
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Part of TARO subject browse terms
Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:
Rice University Center for Civic Leadership records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0367
Overview
This collection consists of materials from the Center for Civic Leadership offices. It includes office files and journals and scrapbooks created by students.
Dates:
1990 - 2015
HIV/AIDS local and national research files
Collection
Identifier: MS 0891
Overview
This collection contains newspaper clippings, reports, and other items related to the LGBTQ community and/or the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Dates:
1984 - 1993
Importance of Women's Votes by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, broadside
Collection
Identifier: MS 0605
Overview
Small broadside written by U.S. Representative Edith Nourse Rogers articulating an appeal to women voters to use their votes to "stabilize...this extraordinary era of experimental administration under which we have been living during the past four years."
Dates:
ca. 1936
James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions and family photographs
Collection
Identifier: MS 0008
Abstract:
James Stephen Hogg letter transcriptions date from 1836-1906 and were copied from original manuscripts in the Texas State Library through the courtesy of the heirs of James S. Hogg. Family photographs date from circa 1890-1903 and include James S. Hogg, his parents, his wife Sallie Stinson, and various Hogg homes (including Varner-Hogg Plantation) and friends.
Dates:
1836 - 1906
Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0252
Overview
The Jesse H. Jones Family and Personal Papers, consisting of 92 boxes, detail the lives of individual Jones family members and are highlighted by the Jesse H. Jones personal papers consisting of correspondence, photographs, financial, legal, speeches and business records, as well as the political, civic-related and public service records for which Jones is well known.
Dates:
1841 - 2000
John F. Kennedy Space Effort Speech at Rice University records
Collection
Identifier: UA 0109
Abstract:
This record group consists of printed material and audio covering both John F. Kennedy's visit and speech on the Nation's Space Effort at Rice University on September 12, 1962.
Dates:
1961 - 1962
Kaufman family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 769
Overview
The collection includes certificates, correspondence, family photos, publications, a Bellaire High School commencement program, speeches, a scrapbook, an oral history, and memorabilia from the 1960 Democratic National Convention that document the activities of Stephen Kaufman, primarily, and to a lesser extent his wife, Ann, and both of their families.
Dates:
1900 - 2021
Lee P. Brown professional papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0509
Abstract:
This collection contains the professional papers of Dr. Lee P. Brown. The papers reflect his professional career as Mayor of Houston (1998-2004), Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (1993-1995), New York City Police Commissioner (1990-1992), Police Chief of Houston, Texas (1982-1990), Public Safety Commissioner of Atlanta, Georgia (1978-1982), and Professor and Scholar at Rice University. Also included in the collection are newsclips, photographs, awards and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1954-2013
Liberty Hall collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0658
Overview
This collection mainly consists of memorabilia and ephemera from the music venue Liberty Hall.
Dates:
1971-2016
Macedonia Troubles correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS 0128
Abstract:
This is a collection of 31 letters dated variously between 1882-1913, regarding the troubles in Macedonia, written to A. G. Symonds and others of the National Reform Union.
Dates:
1882 - 1913