The John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs Archives, at times called the John M. Ashbrook Political Collection, is housed as an integral part of the Ashland University Archives.  The collections contains records which support the study of 20th Century conservative politics in the United States, and more specifically northeastern Ohio.

The entire record set is comprised of individual collections as delineated below.

The John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs hosts its own web site and is governed by a Board of Trustees composed of many prominent citizens and former legislators. The Center offers a curriculum of political studies under the umbrella of Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio.  Dedicated on May 9, 1983, by former President Ronald W. Reagan (1911-2004) the Center maintains the Ashbrook Scholar Program which to date has assisted those students pursuing undergraduate degrees with an emphasis on political affairs.