What I found striking (besides some of the contents) was that no one had checked them out since the 30s, if I remember correctly. (Possibly the 50s -- several decades, at least.) That such essential documents about a major movement in recent American history were untouched suggested a serious deficiency in academic fashion about what is worth studying.
Considering the number of people that would identify themselves as Fundamentalists I find it's amazing how few have read the seminal works on fundamentalism. We had to read them as part of Sacred Studies back when I was in High School.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion