Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4290334k/entire_text/
[0509] Center for Popular Culture Records, 1988-2003, Coll. 2005C25
Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010
Description: The Center for the Study of Popular Culture aims to promote traditional conservative values, particularly regarding racial and social issues, and mold public opinion by challenging opposing points of view. Contains writings, correspondence, memoranda, schedules, legal and financial records, printed matter, sound recordings, and video tape, relating to conservatism and the mass media in the United States. Includes papers of David Horowitz, founder and president of the Center. Files on American Enterprise Institute, Americanism Educational League, Dick Armey, Bill Bennett, black anti-Semitism, Robert Bork, CATO Institute, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Inc., Dinesh D'Souza, Eagle Forum, Jerry Falwell, Newt Gingrich, Charlton Heston, Immigration (Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster, by Peter Brimelow, 1995), Jack Kemp, Alan Keyes, Bill Kristol, Laurel Foundation, Rush Limbaugh, Frank S. Meyer Society, Oliver North, Paul Revere Society, and George Will. Audio recordings of Dick Armey, William Kristol, and Tom Delay. A copy of The Limbaugh Letter.
Websites with information:
http://www.hoover.org/news/new-finding-aids-posted-online-14
http://www.hoover.org/news/29085
Finding aids:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3489q98b/entire_text/
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/hoover/ctrpopcu.pdf
[0509a] Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Collection, Series 12: Audio-Visual, ca. 1956-1987, Mss 18 [audio recordings; partly digital collection]
Location: Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Description: The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, established in 1959, grew out of the 'Basic Issues' program of the Fund for the Republic, a grant-making institution designed to combat the rampant abuses of American civil liberties that characterized the McCarthy era. 'Basic Issues' included "the current status" of corporations, trade unions, the common defense, religion, the mass media, political parties, pressure groups, and professional associations. The CSDI was a residential center in Santa Barbara, California, for a core of full-time participants and invited experts to spend extended periods of time examining the issues. Contains ca. 3,500 audio tapes of Center conferences, convocations, meetings and interviews. Also 127 reels of film, and 57 videotapes in various formats. Series 12: Audio-visual Materials. Sub-series A18-1201: Audiotapes. Sub-subseries 12.01.01: Taped Programs ca. 1961-1978, contains copies of A Matter of Genes (July 1, 1969): Educational psychologist Arthur Jensen, of the University of California at Berkeley, discusses his controversial theory that "genetic factors are strongly implicated in the average black-white intelligence difference" in this interview with the Center's Donald McDonald; Population Control Begins at Home (Oct. 30, 1969): Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich, of Stanford University, offers a plan that he sees as a realistic solution to the progressive destruction of life on earth due to overpopulation, a problem compounded by the Western world's avaricious consumption of non-renewable resources; and Foreign Policy - The Kissinger View (Oct. 8, 1973): Secretary of State Henry Kissinger discusses recent changes in the international scene and gives his views of the realities and limits of foreign policy. With an introduction by Robert M. Hutchins. Sub-subseries 12.01.02: Transcription Tapes 1965-1987, contains copies of Jim Garrison - The Assassination, Nov. 16, 1967; Michael Novak - The Church in Society, Feb. 8, 1968; Thomas O'Dea and Michael Novak - The Church in Society, Feb. 9, 1968; Arthur R. Jensen - How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement, Mar. 28, 1969; William Gorman, John Wilkinson - Discussion of a paper by Arthur R. Jensen entitled "I.Q. And Academic Achievement," May 13, 1969; William Gorman, John Wilkinson - Discussion of a paper by Arthur R. Jensen entitled "I.Q. And Academic Achievement," May 14, 1969; Arthur R. Jensen, Donald McDonald (Library Conversation Interview by McDonald), July 1, 1969; Bertrand de Jouvenel - Discussions - 1970 Plans for Associates, Nov. 21, 1969; Prof. Paul Marx - The Problems of Abortion, Aug. 16, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel, John Wilkinson - Library Conversation, Oct. 23, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel, Harvey Wheeler, Barnard Norris - Library Conversation, Oct. 26, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel- Concentrations, Oct. 26, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel- The Role of the Intellectual, Oct. 27, 1972; Michael Wright - Gobineau: Alive and Well in the Promised Land, Dec. 29, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel - Is the United States Turning Away from Europe, Feb. 28, 1978; Garrett Hardin - A National Population Policy, Nov. 9, 1978; and Seymour Lipset - The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in the United States, 1790-1977, Mar. 5, 1979. Sub-subseries 12.01.05: Chronological ca. 1953-1983, contains copies of Hank Greenspun (publisher of Las Vegas Sun News) - Comments by and about Joseph McCarthy, [ca. 1953]; David Horowitz (3 tapes), Jan. 15, 1962; Story of the Center - Chicago Symposium, June 1963 (Bertrand de Jouvenel - For Story of the Center, June 1963); Michael Novak - Political Morality (2 tapes), Jan. 10, 1972; Bertrand de Jouvenel - Is the United States Turning Away from Europe, Feb. 28, 1978; and Bertrand de Jouvenel interviewed by Donald McDonald, Feb. 28, 1978.
Websites with information:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/research/general-manuscripts-collections
http://libraries.ucsb.development-preview.com/special-collections/collections/cguides
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3s2006vg/entire_text/
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4n39s1z9/entire_text/
Finding aid for Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Audio Archive:
http://digital.library.ucsb.edu/collections/show/15
[0509b] Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions / Princeton University Files, 1957-1969 (bulk 1962-1965), Mss 253
Location: Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Description: The collection mainly contains post-1961 administrative files which the Center had microfilmed, then shipped to Princeton University, and which subsequently were transferred from Princeton University to UCSB in 1999. Series I: Administration, 1962-1965, contains correspondence, financial statements, mailings, membership lists, memoranda, minutes, papers, press clippings, press releases, proposals, reports, and speeches. Files on American Right Wing – Hallock Hoffman; Americans for Freedom; William Benton ("The Economics of a Free Society"); M. Bertrand de Jouvenel; Fund for the Republic; Barry Goldwater; Garrett Hardin – "A Second Sermon on the Mount"; Henry R. Luce; Mass Media – William Benton; Mindszenty Foundation; National Council for Civic Responsibility; John Nef; Wright Patman; Press Clippings (Anatomy of Extremism, John F. Cronin, Right to Work, Edith Kermit Roosevelt); Press Clippings (William F. Buckley, Jr., Ford Foundation, John Birch Society, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Alice Widener); Press Clippings (American Right Wing, Hugo L. Black, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ford Foundation, Foundations, A Conservative Looks at War and Peace – John De Blois Wack, Prayer in Schools, Race – Miscellaneous Items, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Alice Widener); Race Relations; George Santayana – "Spirit in the Sanctuary"; Robert Strausz-Hupé; Technology Symposium, Dec. 19-23, 1965 - Participants ( Marshall McLuhan); and [Birch] John Birch Society.
Websites with information:
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections/research/general-manuscripts-collections
http://libraries.ucsb.development-preview.com/special-collections/collections/cguides
Finding aid:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt309nf2jn/entire_text/
[0509c] Collection of the Center for the Study of Political