Alternative Press Collection University of Connecticut. Library (Collector) Underground press publications Social movements Social change Student movements The Alternative Press Collection in Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library, is one of the oldest and largest collections of alternative press materials in the United States. The Alternative Press Collection (APC) was founded in the late 1960s out of student participation in activist movements for social, cultural and political change. The library from the Radical Education Project of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was added to the collection in 1972. Currently, the APC includes thousands of national and international newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations, spanning from the 1800s to the present. The collection contains more than 7,000 newspaper and magazine titles with 90 still on subscription, 5,000 books and pamphlets, 1,800 files of ephemera from activist organizations throughout the country, plus miscellaneous posters, broadsides, buttons, calendars and manuscripts. Subjects represented in the APC include (but are not limited to): Anti-War Movements/Peace and Solidarity (Particularly from the Vietnam Era) Publications by and for Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Women’s Liberation/Feminist Publications Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer publications Student Protests and Activism Political Movements (Communism, Socialism, Anarchism, Radical Politics on the Left and Right) Environmental Movements The Alternative Press Collection was founded in the late 1960s as a repository for publications emanating from activist movements for social, cultural and political change. The collection contains thousands of newspapers, serials, books, pamphlets, ephemera and artifacts documenting activist themes and organizations. The strength of the collection pertains to the Vietnam era and related unrest. One manuscript collection of note is the Hoffman Family Papers, donated in 2000 by Jack Hoffman, the younger brother of activist Abbie Hoffman, the co-founder of the Yippie movement and co-defendant in the Chicago 7 Trial. The Alternative Press Collection (APC) was founded in the late 1960s out of student participation in activist movements for social, cultural and political change. The library from the Radical Education Project of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was added to the collection in 1972. Ownership Statement: Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries buttons (information artifacts) alternative publications books realia manuscripts (documents) printed ephemera pamphlets newsletters 20002:19920001 local: MSS 1992.0001 http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:19920001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, CC BY-NC.