Scope and Content Note The collection includes materials related to Bales and his family; his career as a teacher, writer, and polemicist; and research files. Series I-IV pertain to his personal life, writings, correspondence, and career at Harding College. Also included are materials related to Harding College president George S. Benson and the National Education Program. Series V-XIII consist of topical research files created by Bales, the contents of which were used to write books, articles, and class lectures....

Scope and Content Note The collection includes materials on a wide range of subjects with an emphasis on the menace of communism, both foreign and domestic. The research and correspondence files of Allen Zoll and the New York-based National Council for American Education (NCAE) constitute a large portion of the Hargis Papers. The NCAE was an anti-communist watchdog organization active during the 1940s and 1950s. It compiled numerous files on alleged “Reds” in educational institutions, agitating for their dismissal...