The Bob Stein collection of leftist political ephemera consists of newsletters, mailings, meeting agendas, and other printed ephemera and personal notes relating to U. S. leftist political organizations. Organizations and publications represented within the collection include the Students for a Democratic Society, POLIT, Student Representative Party (SRP), Maroon Chicago, and the Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) newsletter. Subjects include anti-McCarthyism, anti-nuclear weapons, peace, affordable college education, communism, socialism, academic freedom, anti-Vietnam war, and civil rights.