Correspondence, mostly of the chief executives of the school, concerning routine matters such as inquiries about course offerings or jobs, business, invitations to speakers, arrangements for courses or lectures and fund raising; minutes (1919-1921) of the school's Educational Council; student term papers; internal memoranda on reorganization plans for the school; material relating to the school's publications, including Institute of Social Science Bulletin (1951-1955), and correspondence and manuscripts. from Feliks Gross, Harry W. Laidler, Max Nomad, James Oneal, Upton Sinclair, Mark Starr, and other contributors; correspondence courses given by the school, including courses on socialist history or thought by David Berenberg, Nathan Fine, Algernon Lee, Anna A. Maley, and Scott Nearing; stenographic report of a debate (1928) between Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas on "Communism vs. Socialism in the U.S."; mimeographed data on unemployment organization in the U.S. (1933); and other papers. Subject files (1930-1955) consist of course outlines, attendance records, biographical data on teachers, press releases, fund raising documents, additional correspondence, financial records, reports, monographs on topical issues, and transcripts of lectures and debates. Records of the school's Labor Research Department, which published American Labor Year Book from 1916-1932, include reports to American Socialist Society;
