Archival Sources
University of Michigan Records, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor Michigan
ICPSR Records
Allen, H., 1967a, “Memo from Director of Data Recovery, Subject: ‘Availability of historical election data’, February 24”, Folder: Historical Archive, 1967, Box 14.
Allen, H., 1967b, “Memo from Director of Data Recovery, Subject: ‘Progress Report on Historical Data Projects May 30”, Folder: Historical Archive, 1967, Box 14.
Bisco, R. L., 1964, “Information Services for Political Science: Progress and Prospects”, Paper delivered at 1964 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Folder: Development Activities and Plans, 1963-1965, Box 14.
Converse, P. E., 1962a, “Letter to Karl Deutsch, Member of Committee of Eight, October 26”, Folder: Committee of Eight, Correspondence and Minutes, 1962, Box 1.
Converse, P. E., 1962b, “Memo to Committee of 8, ‘Background, Issues & Tentative Agenda for Meeting, December 1-2’, November 8”, Folder: Committee of Eight, Correspondence and Minutes, 1962. Box 1.
Converse, P. E., 1963a, “Toward the Development of an Inter-University Data Archive System for Comparative Research”, Proposal labeled “First Draft, January, 1963”, hand-dated “1.31.63.”, Folder: Organization and Administration, Committee of Eight, Proposals, 1963, Box 1.
Converse, P. E., 1963b, “Letter to Charles Glock, Survey Research Center, U.C. Berkeley, May 2”, Folder: Organization and Administration, Committee of Eight, Correspondence and Minutes, 1963, Box 1.
Converse, P. E., 1963c, “Memo to Committee of 8, June 28”, Folder: Organization and Administration, Committee of Eight, Correspondence and Minutes, 1963, Box 1.
Geda, C., N.d., “Basic Glossary of Data-Processing Terms”, Box 14.
Grant Proposal, 1964, “A Proposal for a Study of the National Electorate, 1964”, No Author, May 13, Box 16.
Grant Proposal, 1967, “To Ford Foundation for Funds to Support an Expansion of Archival Resources”, No Author, Box 16.
Grant Proposal, 1968, “Proposal to NSF for Funds for Supplementary Support of a Specialized Facility for Social Science Research”, No Author, Box 16.
Hofferbert, R., 1975, “Memo to Jerome M. Clubb, ‘Supervision of Data Acquisition’”, Folder: Correspondence and Memoranda folder, 1964, 1966, 1974-75, Box 14.
Hofferbert, R., N.d., “Archiving of Machine-Readable Policy Data: Activities of the ICPR”, Folder: Resource Development and Services, Archival Activities, Reports and Reviews, 1962-1978, Box 15.
Lane, R., 1964, “Letter to Miller, November 7”, Folder: Correspondence To/From ICPSR Executive Directors, 1964-2001, 1 of 3, Box 3.
Lowi, T., 1964, “Memo to Miller and John Wahlke: ‘Anti- Inter-University Cooperation’, November 2”, Folder: Correspondence To/From ICPSR Executive Directors, 1964-2001, 1 of 3, Box 3.
Miller, W. E., 1962a, “Memo to ICPR Council, ‘Estimated cost of establishment of data repository’, October 18”, Folder: Resource Development and Services, Archival Activities: Formation of a Data Repository, 1962, Box 14.
Miller, W. E., 1962b, Memo to ICPR Council, “Conversations with Peter Rossi and Jack Feldman of NORC, October 4, 1962” n.d. Folder: Resource Development and Services, Archival Activities: Formation of a Data Repository, 1962, Box 14.
Miller, W. E., 1964a, Memo to Official Representatives, ICPR, re. “Inter-archival cooperation,” September 1964. Folder: Correspondence To/From ICPSR Executive Directors, 1964-2001, 1 of 3, Box 3.
Miller, W. E., 1964b, “Proposed Principles for Inter-Archive Cooperation,” n.d.; attached to Miller, 1964a. Folder: Correspondence To/From ICPSR Executive Directors, 1964-2001, 1 of 3, Box 3.
Miller, W. E., 1997, “Oral history interview. Oral history interview. (Erik Austin, interviewer). July 20”, VHS tape and typed transcript, Institute for Social Research (ISR) Oral History project.
NSF Grant Proposal (no author), 1964, “A Proposal for Funds to Support the Addition of Data to the Inter-University Consortium for Political Research Data Repository”, February, Box 16.
Wahlke, J., 1964, “Council, ICPR, to Official Representative, ICPR, Subject: ‘Proposed Principles for Inter-Archival Cooperation’”, Draft, n.d., Folder: Correspondence To/From ICPSR Executive Directors, 1964-2001, 1 of 3, Box 3.
W. E. Miller’s Personal Papers
Miller, W. E., 1966. “Proposal Rating Sheet, Proposal S 70163-P (An African Social Science Data Archive)”, Folder: Correspondence, Topical—Proposal Reviews, NSF: Miscellaneous, 1962-67. Box 3.
Special Collections, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Office of the President Records (President James P. Baxter)
Baxter, J. P., 1959, “Baxter to Joel I. Brooke, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, March 12”, Box 69 (Roper Center Correspondence).
Baxter, J. P., 1960, “Baxter to Henry Heald, Ford Foundation, February 22”, Box 69 (Roper Center Correspondence).
Hastings, P. K., 1957, “Hastings to Elmo Roper, July 11”, Box 69. (Roper Center Correspondence).
Statement of Purpose, N.d., “Roper Public Opinion Research Center at Williams College”, Box 69 (Roper Center Correspondence).
Roper Public Opinion Research Center (Subject File)
“Williams Newsletter”, 1962, Fall.
Published and Online Works
Aronova, E., 2017, “Geophysical Datascapes of the Cold War: Politics and Practices of the World Data Centers in the 1950s and 1960s”, Osiris, 32, p. 307-327.
Austin, E., 2011, “ICPSR: The Founding and Early Years”, ICPSR website, online: https://page.hn/28vphd
Bisco, R. L., 1966, “Social Science Data Archives: A Review of Developments”, The American Political Science Review, 60 (1), p. 93-109.
Bisco, R. L., 1967, “Social Science Data Archives: Progress and Prospects”, Social Science Information, 6 (1), p. 39-74.
Bouk, D., 2018, “The National Data Center and the Rise of the Data Double”, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 48 (5), p. 627-636.
Converse, J. M., 1987, Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence, 1890-1960, Berkeley, The University of California Press.
Converse, P. E., 1964, “A Network of Data Archives for the Behavioral Sciences”, Public Opinion Quarterly 28 (2), p. 273-286.
De Chadarevian, S., Porter, T. M., 2018, “Introduction: Scrutinizing the Data World” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 48 (5), p. 549-556.
Farber, K. A., Beck, C., 1971, “Council of Social Science Data Archives (CSSDA)”, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.
Frantilla, A., 1998, Social Science in the Public Interest: A Fiftieth-Year History of the Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, Bentley Historical Library.
Garfinkel, S., 2000, Database Nation. The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, Sebastopol, O’Reilly and Associates.
Geiger, R. L., 1993, Research and Relevant Knowledge. American Research Universities Since World War II, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Glaser, B. G., 1963, “Retreading Research Materials. The Use of Secondary Analysis by the Independent Researcher”, American Behavioral Scientist, 6 (10), p. 11-14.
Hastings, P. K., 1963, “The Roper Center: An International Archive of Sample Survey Data”, Public Opinion Quarterly, 27 (4), p. 590-598.
Hastings, P. K., 1964, International Survey Library Association of the Roper Center, Public Opinion Quarterly, 28 (2), p. 331-333.
Hauptmann, E., 2016, “‘Propagandists for the Behavioral Sciences’: The Overlooked Partnership between the Carnegie Corporation and the SSRC in the mid-20th century”, The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 52 (2), p. 167-187.
Hauptmann, E., 2020, “Why They Shared. Recovering Early Arguments for Sharing Social Scientific Data”, Science in Context, 33 (2), p. 101-119.
Hauptmann, E., 2022, Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970, Lawrence, The University Press of Kansas.
Igo, S. E., 2007, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Igo, S. E., 2018, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Kraus, R. S., 2013, “Statistical Déjà Vu: The National Data Center Proposal of 1965 and its Descendants. Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings”, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 5 (1).
Larsen, O. N., 1992, Milestones and Millstones. Social Science at the National Science Foundation, 1945-1991, New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers.
Lemov, R., 2015, Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity, New Haven, Yale University Press.
Lepore, J., 2020, If Then. How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, New York, W.W. Norton Publishing.
Loughnane, C., Aspray, W., 2018, “Rethinking the Call for a US National Data Center in the 1960s: Privacy, Social Science Research, and Data Fragmentation Viewed from the Perspective of Contemporary Archival Theory”, Information & Culture, 53 (2), p. 203-242.
Lucci, Y., Rokkan, S., and Meyerhoff, E., 1957, A Library Center of Survey Research Data: A Report of an Inquiry and a Proposal, New York, Columbia University School of Library Service.
Miller, A. R., 1971, The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press.
Moustafa, T., 2024, “Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline”, Perspectives on Politics, online: https://page.hn/2aesfh.
Ribes, D., Jackson, S. J., 2013, “Data Bite Man”, p. 147-166, in Gitelman, L. (ed.), “Raw Data” Is an Oxymoron, Cambridge, MIT Press, online: 10.7551/mitpress/9302.001.0001.
Riecken, H. W., 1986, “Underdogging: The Early Career of the Social Sciences in the NSF”, p. 209-226, in Klausner, S. Z., and Lidz, V. M. (eds), The Nationalization of the Social Sciences, Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania Press, online: 10.9783/9781512803013-011.
Rohde, J., 2011, “The Last Stand of Psychocultural Cold Warriors: Military Contract Research in Vietnam”, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 47 (3), p. 232-250.
Rohde, J., 2017, “Pax Technologica: Computers, International Affairs, and Human Reason in the Cold War”, Isis, 108 (4), p. 792-813.
Rokkan, S., 1976, “Data Services in Western Europe. Reflections on Variations in the Conditions of Academic Institution-Building”, American Behavioral Scientist, 19 (4), p. 443-454.
Scheuch, E. K., 2003, “History and Visions in the Development of Data Services for the Social Sciences”, International Social Science Journal, 177, p. 385-399.
Solovey, M., 2013, Shaky Foundations. The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press.
Solovey, M., 2020, Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation, Cambridge, MIT Press.
Truman, D. B., 1991, “Oral history interview”, p. 135-151, in Baer, M. A., Jewell, M. E. and Sigelman L. (eds), Political Science in America: Oral Histories of a Discipline, Lexington, The University of Kentucky Press.



