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The Institute for American Thought is a research center that supports the work of two renowned scholarly editions while providing a unique resource for students and scholars worldwide. The Institute's collections feature the largest consolidated accumulation of the extant papers of Peirce and Santayana, as well as all of the scholarly records deriving for over 25 years of textual study for both the Peirce Edition and the Santayana Edition. In 2005, the Frederick Douglass Papers, doing a critical edition of Douglass’ papers, joined the Institute. In 2007, the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies was created. This center is publishing critical editions of the writings of Ray Bradbury and gathering an archive of Ray Bradbury materials. The Institute houses two academic programs, an undergraduate minor in American Studies and a graduate certificate program in scholarly and professional editing, and edits a journal for the Association for Documentary Editing. At the center of the Institute is the Max H. Fisch Library, a 20,000 volume special collection devoted to American Thought. The Max Kade German-American Research and Resource Center is an affiliate of the Institute for American Thought.