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NEWS
May 14, 2008
Statement Regarding the Robert L. Capp Collection
A recently released book, Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan, by Professor Sean L. Malloy of the University of California, Merced...
May 12, 2008
New Finding Aids for Pictorial Collections Posted Online
April 29, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
April 24, 2008
Hoover Institution News Release: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Open Exhibit Highlighting the Role of Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters in the West
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives exhibition To Choose Freedom: Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters offers a glimpse into the era of repression against Soviet human rights activists, focusing on the years that followed Khrushchev’s “thaw” in the late 1950s up through the era of perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s.
April 4, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
March 7, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
February 27, 2008
Hoover Institution News Advisory: Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of William F. Buckley Jr's. Show Firing Line
The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In addition to the television show he hosted, Buckley, who died today, was a columnist, author, and founded National Review in 1955.
February 13, 2008
The Hoover Institution and the Lithuanian Archives Department Agree to Exchange Documents
The Hoover Institution and the Lithuanian Archives Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, have entered an agreement under which they will exchange documents with each other.
January 30, 2008
From Hoover Press: Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives by Paul R. Gregory
In Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives(Hoover Institution Press, 2008) Hoover fellow Paul R. Gregory has written 14 tales drawn from the Hoover Institution’s collections on the Soviet state and party archives.
January 15, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
January 8, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
December 18, 2007
Hoover Publishes Lost Verbatim Records of the Politburo
In November 2007 a four-year cooperative project between the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History and the Hoover Institution was marked by publication of three volumes of verbatim records (stenograms) of the Politburo of the Russian (later All-Union) Communist Party Central Committee. The volumes, edited by Hoover fellow Paul Gregory and Russian scholars Oleg Khlevnyuk, and Alexander Vatlin, were published by the Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishing House.
November 26, 2007
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
November 9, 2007
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
October 26, 2007
Searchable Database of Hoover Archives Posters Now Available
More than one hundred thousand political posters from around the world are available in the Hoover Archives Poster Collection. Thirty-three thousand of these are cataloged in a searchable database.
October 25, 2007
Lei Zhen Papers Acquired by Hoover Archives
The personal papers of Lei Zhen (1897–1979), human rights activist, liberal thinker, and vigorous political opponent of Chiang Kai-shek and Kuomintang rule in post-1949 Taiwan, were recently acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
October 17, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
October 15, 2007
Digital Archive of Pasternak Family Papers Now Available
The first segment of the Pasternak Family Papers digital archive is available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
October 12, 2007
The Life of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago Culture and the Cold War
Held on Stanford campus October 19-20, 2007, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Doctor Zhivago, the symposium is sponsored by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution.
October 1, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
September 21, 2007
2008 Presidential Candidates Recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California
The speeches of the 2008 presidential hopefuls are well represented among the thousands of sound recordings of Commonwealth Club of California events stored at the Hoover Archives.
September 7, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
August 28, 2007
Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, visits Hoover
Janusz Krupski, minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression in Poland, visited the Hoover Institution on August 27, 2007.
March 26, 2007
World War II Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on April 2, 2007
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1932 to 1945 will become available to researchers in the Hoover Archives reading room on April 2, 2007. They join earlier Chiang diaries from 1917 to 1931, which were opened last year.
February 20, 2007
Commonwealth Club Radio Program Collection
More than two thousand sound recordings of speakers addressing the Commonwealth Club of California are housed at the Hoover Archives and described in a searchable database.
April 25, 2006
The History of Stalin's Gulag awarded 2005 Silver Medal for Human Rights by the Russian Federation
On December 9, 2005, the editors and publisher of the seven-volume The History of Stalin's Gulag were awarded the 2005 Silver Medal for Human Rights by Vladimir Lukin, plenipotentiary for human rights in the Russian Federation.
March 31, 2006
Earliest Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on March 31, 2006
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1917 to 1931 will be opened on March 31, 2006. The remainder of the diaries will be opened sequentially during the next few years.
January 20, 2006
Arnold Rüütel, president of Estonia, visits the Hoover Institution
Before delivering a policy address at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies on January 20, 2006, His Excellency Arnold Rüütel, president of Estonia, visited the Hoover Institution.
October 19, 2005
"Revolutionary Eye" Exhibition Artist Speaks on Life, Art, and the Former East Germany
The Hoover Library and Archives hosted a wine and cheese reception for Wolfgang Janisch, the featured artist in the exhibition 'Revolutionary Eye: The Political Poster Art of Wolfgang Janisch: 1979-1999.
September 27, 2005
Digital Collection: Survey of Race Relations Records available online
In the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make a complete investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among the Chinese, Japanese, and other non-white residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada. Extension of the study into northern Mexico and Hawaii was contemplated as well.
September 21, 2005
Latvian Foreign Minister Visits Hoover Institution
Latvia's Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks visited the Hoover Institution on September 21, 2005, where he viewed library and archival materials relating to Latvian history.
November 29, 2004
Archivist Offers a Look at a Day in the Life of the Hoover Archives
'A Day in the Life of the Hoover Archives,' a presentation by Hoover research fellow and project archivist Anatol Shmelev, November 4 and 5, offered a rarely seen look into the internal workings of the Hoover Library and Archives.
October 15, 2004
Hoover Institution, Woodrow Wilson Center Organize Conference on Impact of Cold War Broadcasting
International researchers and former officials are meeting at the Hoover Institution to address the impact of Western broadcasting - especially Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - during the Cold War.
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