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Jazz at Liberty
November 3, 2009 Recently I asked a colleague, “How many times have you gone looking for John Kennedy’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate and wound up listening to Phil Woods blowing sax?”

Hoover Institution acquires Melita Norwood papers

November 2, 2009 Kim Philby was part of the Cambridge Five, who were arguably the most notorious Soviet spies operating in Great Britain from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Hero Land
October 28, 2009 Working with Hoover’s poster collection, I came across a poster with a striking image of a bazaar and “Hero Land” in a huge typeface reminiscent of a movie poster, illustrated by J. Carl Mueller.

Landslide—a portrait of President Herbert Hoover on PBS

October 23, 2009 This documentary explores the facts and fictions behind the presidency of Herbert Hoover, including the Great Depression and its lasting impact on government.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Tape Boxing Project Completed

Tapes had been stored individually on the shelves

Images of the ambitious project to box, label, and accurately count the 80,000 seven-inch open-reel audiotapes.

Hoover Making History since 1919

In celebration of the Hoover Institution’s 90th anniversary, this slide show features photographs, posters, memorabilia, and documents from the Institution’s beginning as a library in 1919 to the influential public policy and research institution that it has become today.

Images from the Hoover Institution’s Firing Line collection

William F. Buckley Jr. hosted Firing Line on television from 1966 to 1999. The show is a window on twentieth-century American culture, politics, and television; one can see such guests as Ronald Reagan, Clare Booth Luce, Barry Goldwater, Malcolm Muggeridge, David Susskind, and Hugh Hefner discuss topics as varied as liberalism, religion, Alger Hiss, feminism, and the U.S. presidency.

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A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History since 1919

In celebration of the Hoover Institution’s ninetieth anniversary, this exhibition of photographs, posters, memorabilia, audiovisual materials, documents, and books from its library and archives traces the Institution’s development from its origin in 1919 as a special collection at Stanford’s main library to the influential public policy and research institution that it is today.