Howard Bernard Gotlieb, Ph.D. (October 24, 1926 – December 1, 2005) was an American archivist, and the founding director of Special Collections at Boston University, which was established as an archive center in 1963. In 2003, the center was renamed The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center in his honor. Gotlieb acquired substantial holdings to the archive from individuals who played a significant part in the fields of journalism, literature, film, and political and religious movements. The archive includes historical documents donated by individuals such as letters written by Bette Davis, important papers from Martin Luther King Jr. donated before the Selma to Montgomery marches, jokes written by Groucho Marx, Fred Astaire’s tap dancing shoes, hundreds of documents from Dan Rather, and