Biographical items consist of official Smith College News Office and History Department releases, a curriculum vitae, letters to the editors of the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the Smith College Quarterly, and a 1986 feature article, "Max Salvadori - In the Name of Liberty" from Hampshire Life magazine. Of particular interest are several news articles from the New York Herald Tribune relating to Salvadori's 1956 lecture,"American Capitalism," at the School for International Studies of the U.S. State Department.

Photographs of Max Salvadori are from the Smith Faculty Quarterly. Two other photographs show Salvadori, professor of Italian Michele Cantarella (1929-1963), and an unidentified man. A fourth shows Salvadori seated at a panel with Smith College faculty members Klemens von Kemperer, professor of history; William Dennis Johnston, professor of theatre; Kenneth Connelly, professor of English; and Guenter Lewy, professor of government. All the photographs are undated.

Materials include essays, symposium and conference papers and copies of the shorter works. Publications are in both original languages and in translations, including French, Spanish, Italian and Taiwanese. Of special interest is a copy of Salvadori's 1939 doctoral thesis from the University of Rome and his 1949 war memoir, "Resistenza ed Azione, Ricordidi un Liberale."

Materials consist of typewritten, annotated manuscripts and galley proofs for various editions and drafts of Salvadori's major works, including the original manuscrips for Cavour and the Unification of Italy, Modern Socialism, and The Rise of Modern Communism.

This series consists of paper-bound lectures, lecture summaries and background notes for students in history classes taught by Professor Salvadori at Smith College. The majority of the course guides pertain to the Modern European history classes.

Papers include a detailed essay by Salvadori outlining the philosophy, history, and chief purpose of the Schools for Freedom, a 10-day forum for young liberals held each summer in a different country. Correspondence includes letters from the secretary general of the sponsoring World International to Smith College President Thomas C. Mendenhall and School for Freedom Director Max Salvadori. The letters discuss the selection of a Smith College student participant for the 1967 Ontario, Canada session. Also included is a program from the 1969 Congress held in Munich and "A Liberal's Answer to Communism" by Max Salvadori, published as a supplement by The Liberal International in London.