This collection consists of activist publications from the 1960s and 1970s, including from the Stevens Institute of Hoboken, New Jersey, and from the Students for a Democratic Society, maintained by Fred Whitehead from when he was a student at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and Columbia University in New York.

The collection contains personal and family photos, family history and artifacts, Robert Burton's teaching materials and correspondence as Chair of two university departments, press clippings, and two historical outlines that represent Burton's research on China and the history of its Communist Party.

Kansas native Wint Smith, a lawyer by profession, served in the military and the United States Congress. This collection includes correspondence, records related to Smith's military and Congressional career, speeches, photographs, diaries, maps, and other related materials.