The Department of Special Collections at the University of California Santa Barbara has created a digital archive of the recorded programs of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI). The archive is located at:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/csdi/.
CSDI was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Politicaland academic leaders, scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, theologians, labor and community leaders focused on topics such as peace and war, democracy, dissent, community action, ecology and the environment, elections and the electoral process, immigration, international relations, law and order, the media, race and ethnicity, and religion. Prominent participants included Senator Alan Cranston, Upton Sinclair, Milton Friedman, Mortimer Adler, Cesar Chavez, Aldous Huxley, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Sander Vanocur, and Gunner Myrdal among many others.
Edward C. Fields
Supervisor, Information Services
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-3062
fields@library.ucsb.edu
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/info.html
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