Papers of journalist and teacher James Aronson, who was best known (with James T. McManus and Cedric Belfrage) as a founder of the National Guardian, an independent left-wing news weekly. There are files about the newspaper, but the majority of the collection consists of correspondence, speeches and writings, and teaching materials dating from his post-National Guardian career (after 1967) as a free lance writer and teacher of journalism at Hunter College and China in 1979 and 1981. The National Guardian files consist of internal memoranda, organizational materials, and correspondence with supporters such as Anne Bauer, Louis E. Burnham, Wilfred Burchett, Emil Carlebach, Alexander L. Crosby, Julio Alvarez del Vayo, Tabitha Petran, Judy Polumbaum, John G. Roberts, Phyllis Rosner, Anna Louis Strong, Ursula Wasserman, Konni Zilliacus and Ed Zusi. There is also a recording of the paper's 5th anniversary in 1953 at which Pete Seeger sang and W.E.B. DuBois and Ring Lardner, Jr., spoke. Later correspondents include academic and working journalists such as Irgin Dilliard, Nat Hentoff, Lawrence Pinkham, Mark Pinsky and David Wesley and others including Alger Hiss and Claude Williams. Aronson's experiences in China are represented by correspondence with Israel Epstein and Elsie Cholmeley, Julian Schuman, and William Worthy, with students Li Lu and Chen Lung, the diary of Mrs. Aronson (the artist Grambs Miller), drafts of an unpublished book, and various other speeches and writings. Contacts with China expert Sidney Rittenberg are documented by correspondence and an interview. Also includes: from his World War II experiences, microfilm copies of the first free German newspapers licensed by the Allies and information on the Marburg journalism conference; drafts of three published books (Deadline for the media, The press and the Cold War, and Something to guard, the stormy life of the National guardian, 1948-1967); manuscripts for articles and speeches, editorial correspondence and book reviews; paper copies of class lectures, supplemented by tape recording of classes, guest lectures, conferences and WBAI broadcasts, some of which concern China; and a small amount of photographs.