The Moakley Archive offers patrons a variety of tools to assist research. Please contact the Archive for help with any of our research tools. 

Finding Aids and Research Tools

Finding aids:

Describe archival collection and help researchers understand who created the records and how they were originally used, what kind of information is available and how it is organized, special considerations such as restrictions, and a box and folder list.

• MS 100 Congressman John Joseph Moakley Papers: 740 pages (.pdf)
• MS103 Jamaica Plain Committee on Central America Collection (.pdf) 
• MS 105 Mary P. Burke U.N. Women’s Conference Collection(.pdf)
• MS 106 Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Papers(.pdf)
• MS 108 Gleason Leonard Archer Personal Papers(.pdf)
• MS 109 Margaret Collins Weitz Papers(.pdf)
• MS 110 Frederick Wilkins Papers (.pdf)

Research guides:

Cross-collection subject based guides listing where a particular topic can be found throughout all our holdings. Currently the Archive has:

• Early Law School Student Profiles
• El Salvador Research Guide
• Fire-Safe Cigarette Research Guide
• Garrity Decision Research Guide

Index:

• Professor David L. Robbins’s A History of Suffolk University 1906-1996. (.pdf)

Bibliographies:

• El Congresista Moakley: A Bibliography on Congressman Joe Moakley and El Salvador
• Suffolk University History (.pdf)
• Gleason Archer's radio addresses (.pdf)
• Gleason Archer's published works (.pdf)
• Gleason Archer's unpublished works (.pdf)

Research Topics

Research topics are areas of strength within our holdings patrons may wish to consult for research.

Boston and Massachusetts Ninth Congressional District

• Economic Development (Big Dig, Waterfront, Taunton Industrial Park, etc.)
• Fair Housing - Anti-snob Zoning
• Forced Busing/Boston Public Schools Desegregation
• Historic Preservation (Dorchester Heights, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, U.S.S. Constitution, Old South Meeting House, etc.)

Campaigns

• Grassroots activism
• State Representative
• State Senate
• Boston City Council
• Congress

Congressman John Joseph Moakley

• Congress, 1973-2001
• Massachusetts politics
• Constituent Services
• House of Representatives
• Leadership
• Rules Committee

Consumer Affairs/Health and Medical Research

• Fire-safe Cigarettes
• Food Labeling Act
• Organ Donation

Drama and theatre studies

• Eugene O’Neill Society
• Eugene O’Neill, 1883-1953

Environmental Issues

• Boston Harbor Islands
• Boston Harbor Clean-up
• Hazardous Waste sites

Feminism, France

Great Pond, Maine

History of Radio

History of Suffolk University

Human Rights

• Congresses
• France
• Moakley Commission on the Jesuit Murders in El Salvador
• U.S. Policy towards Cuba
• Immigration Issues
• Chinese Immigration
• Salvadoran Refugee Legislation

U.S. Foreign Policy

• Military Aid to El Salvador
• U.S. Policy towards Cuba

War

• Resistance movements
• World War, 1914-1918 – Women
• World War, 1939-1945 – France
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, French
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements – France
• World War, 1939-1945 – Women

Women

• Development
• France, bibliography
• French
• History, 20^th Century
• International development 
• World Conference on Women
• United Nations-- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women

SMART Catalog

The SMART catalog allows patrons to locate research materials in all our collections. Results and types of searches include: keyword and advanced searches; browsing topic terms; lists of folder titles; photographs and digitized files; and collection description information.  

SMART Catalog