The Robert Godfrey collection contains papers, correspondence, films, drafts, course materials, publications and photographs on mountaineering, environmentalism and local political issues. Over his career, 1968 to 1988, Godfrey was a staff member of the Outward Bound Mountain School in Colorado, an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado and a documentary filmmaker.

Robert L. Stearns was the sixth President of the University of Colorado at Boulder and served from 1939 until 1953. Before he became President, he served as the Dean of the Law School at CU-Boulder. This collection includes financial and legal information, congratulatory correspondence for his appointment as President, documents concerning his military service, as well as correspondence from his later years.

Robert Greene was a former graduate student at the University of Colorado. Greene was an activist in the Boulder area during the late 1960’s and the early 1970’s. The collection includes material on Anti-Vietnam War, activism of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and WFM/IUMMSW.

Robert Niver (1832-1906) was an early pioneer of Boulder County in the mid 1850’s along with being a farmer and rancher. He was married to Rosalia M. Spear. Robert Niver lived in Boulder County on Coal Creek. Around the time of 1860, he along with his wife formed a growing dairy business which expanded in the following decades to livestock and agriculture. He held the title of the Superintended of Office during the development an irrigation ditch conjoining

Robert W. "Red" Fenwick was a Colorado/Wyoming newspaperman for 5 decades. A Wyoming native, he became a columnist for the Denver Post. The collection consists of a 3 hour tape of KOA Radio 85 programming for April 30, 1980, with conversation and telephone calls featuring talk show host Tony Larson as he interviewed "Red" Fenwick. Also included is a program of the tape.

Robert F. Rockwell (1886-1950) moved to Colorado in 1907 and engaged in cattle raising and fruit growing. State legislature (1916-24 and 1938-41), Lt. Governor and Congressman (1941-49). Collection contains correspondence concerning political life; ranch and Rockwell businesses. There are numerous senate and house bills, reports and legislative materials. Also there are some scrapbooks containing mainly newspaper clippings about campaigns and politics.

Robert Schwantes was a graduate of the US Navy Japanese Language School, before and a long time employee of the Asia Foundation, working in San Francisco and Japan. He was also author of “Japanese and Americans: A Century of Cultural Relations” published in 1955. The collection includes: research notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, conference papers, book drafts, and notecards.

Robert Sheeks graduated from the US Navy Japanese Language School, which was located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. It contains memoirs on life journeys, science reports and photos on Asian aquaculture, declassified World War II operations, speeches from Harvard University, and material surrounding "One Marines War,' a biography of Sheeks.

The Robert Starr Kinsman Collection contains the papers of Robert S. Kinsman, who graduated from the US Navy Japanese Language School, which was located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. The collection contains materials related to his WWII service.

The Robert T. Engles Collection contains the papers of Robert T. Engles, who graduated from the US Navy Japanese Language School, which was located at the University of Colorado in Boulder from 1942-1946. The collection contains materials related to his WWII service.

Robert K. Tweedell worked for the Denver Post from 1949 to 1983. His collection contains all of his columns and correspondence from 1964 to 1980.

This collection contains McKown's research notes and draft manuscripts for "Lumumba: A Biography" published in 1969. Lumumba is a biography about the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

After teaching for two years at Southwestern College in Kansas, Robley Rhine (b. 1930) came to the University of Colorado as a speech instructor at the Denver Center in 1958. He later became professor of Communications and Theater, and Assistant Dean of Arts and Humanities at the Denver Campus.

The Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments was a cooperative governmental organization consisting of seven local governments representing constituencies that lived in areas adjacent to the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.

The Rocky Flats Stewardship Council, the follow-on organization after the Rocky Flats Coalition of Local Governments, continues the oversight of the Rocky Flats area, after the Federal and State cleanup efforts.

Organized in 1890, the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company purchased the properties of the Northern Coal and Coke Company in 1911, making it one of the three largest coal companies in Colorado. Shortly after a bitter strike in 1927, the company came under the administration of Josephine Roche, who recognized the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The depression of the 1930s and the changing patterns of fuel use in the 1940s forced the closing of the company's mines in the late 1940s.

The Rocky Mountain Llama and Alpaca Association is a breeders and owners organization interested in the care, raising, uses, and promotion of llamas. The group disseminates information on llama health care, reproduction, packing techniques, marketing, herd management, and hands-on demonstration of care and training techniques. Guide available in Special Collections and Archives.

This collection contains art posters and publications of musical performances in the Rocky Mountain region, reflecting a range of musical styles and performances by groups considered to be part of the counterculture.

Contains official time tables of all railroads throughout the inter-mountain west for assorted months from 1893 to 1928. Also included in the guides are connections, tourist rates, sleeping car fares, Shippers' Express Guide and distances.

The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center is a grassroots activist organization for anti-nuclear and peace issues. The collection holds materials from the Center, the Boulder Peace Consortium, WILPF, and Shutdown of Rocky Flats, projects which were active in the late 1980s. Also included are files relating to the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), Rocky Flats monitoring, and other peace issues.

Roger H. Davidson, a longtime University of California political science professor and prolific scholar of the U.S. Presidency, Congress and American public policy, donated research in political science, including printed and unpubished reports on Congressional activities.

Papers relate to the history of the teaching of Japanese in the U.S. Navy and particularly the Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado at Boulder, from 1941 to 1945. Included is correspondence and photographs from former students called JLO’s, instruction materials, as well as research information gathered by Pineau to write a history of Japanese instruction in the U.S. Navy.

Roger Dingman was a history professor at the University of Southern California whose area of study was US Japan relations, intelligence and the Pacific War. His collection contains research materials from his books in those areas. Included are video cassette interviews prepared for his book Deciphering the Rising Sun, microfilm of original documents from a variety of archives, as well as notes and photocopies of primary sources.