Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949

Epithet: US journalist

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000092

Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette. His father was Henry Villard, railroad promoter and financier; his mother was Fanny Garrison Villard, social reformer, suffragist, and philanthropist; and his grandfather was the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

From the description of Oswald Garrison Villard papers, 1856-1949. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612371644

From the guide to the Oswald Garrison Villard papers, 1872-1949., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Eisner was a German journalist, politician and leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party. In Nov. 1918 he organized the Red Bavaria Revolution that overthrew the monarchy in Bavaria; he became first prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of the new Bavarian republic. He was assassinated in Munich in In Feb. 1919.

From the description of Collection of German newspapers concerning the assassination of Kurt Eisner : 1915-1919. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612845197

Villard was an American journalist (eventually inheriting both The Nation and the New York Evening Post), and a champion of civil rights, civil liberties, and birth control.

From the description of [Letter] 1940 Jul. 9, Thomaston, Conn. [to] Mrs. Wyckoff / Oswald Garrison Villard. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 464691870

Kimberley was secretary to Villard and writes on his behalf.

From the description of Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864708

Villard, a journalist and author, was president of the New York Evening Post (1897-1918), editor and owner of The Nation (1918-1932), publisher and contributing editor of The Nation (1932-1935), a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of Yachting Magazine, and owner of the Nautical Gazette.

From the description of Oswald Garrison Villard card files, ca. 1890-1949. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612835363

Oswald Garrison Villard, Harvard graduate (B.A. 1893; M.A. 1896), was an American editor and author.

From the description of Correspondence, 1926-1930. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79292789

From the guide to the Correspondence, 1926-1930., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Editor and publisher of The Nation.

From the description of Letters, 1921 June 4-1931 Sept. 17, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904393

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949) was an American journalist, pacifist, and liberal. Born in Wiesbaden in Germany, he attended Harvard University and upon his graduation in 1893 he began writing for the New York Evening Post and The Nation . He became editor of the latter in 1918. Both papers were owned by Villard's father, German-born journalist and railroad magnate Henry Villard; upon his father's death Villard became the owner.

Throughout his life he supported and promoted civil rights and civil liberties (his mother, Helen Frances Garrison, was the daughter of noted anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison). In 1910 he supported, and donated space in the New York Evening Post to advertise, the formation of what became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the same year he wrote and published a biography of abolitionist John Brown ( John Brown 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After ).

Villard's pacifism led him to become an early member of the anti-war America First Committee and a founder of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed American retention of territories captured during the Spanish-American War (in support of this he attempted to organize a third-party ticket in the 1900 presidential election). Villard believed so strongly in non-intervention that he sold the New York Evening Post in 1918 over its position on World War I and severed his ties with The Nation in 1935 when it too supported American intervention in Europe.

From the guide to the Oswald Garrison Villard Letters, 1919-1920, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

From the guide to the Oswald Garrison Villard [Collection of] John Brown Manuscripts, 1839-1943., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )