ABSTRACT
Archives as a general class of institution are, of course, the special interest of historians and another approach social science researchers use in locating pertinent ones is through historian compilations of archives, such as: National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS) Directory of Archives and Manuscripts Repositories in the United States. Social movements as a generic category of human action and in some specific forms have spawned organized circles of try-to-be-dispassionate scholars and information-collecting oppositional organizations. On the less dispassionate and more oppositional side, there are a number of associations that focus on "tracking" the activities of a movement or movement they dislike. In asserting realities that challenge mainstream constructions, social movements (SMOs) are highly intellectual affairs. They must develop rationales, defend against detractors, spell out preferred courses of action, and so on through the range of matters entailed in argumentation on the true, the moral, and the reasonable.
