Americas

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U.S. World War I poster. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

General Claire Lee Chennault in China with a group of 14th Air Force pilots. Claire Lee Chennault Collection

Argentine president General Juan Domingo Peron inaugurating a leadership school in 1954, a year before the military forced him into exile. Juan Domingo Peron Collection

From one of the dozens of letters Juan Peron wrote to supporters during his years of exile in Madrid. Juan Domingo Peron Collection

Ernesto ('Che') Guevara. Cuba. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collections

Fidel Castro. Chile. Artist: Romero, A. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collections

Caricature of Daniel Ortega, signing a Contadora peace accord with a modified machine gun. Costa Rica, 1986. Artist: Arcadio. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collections

Guatemalan peasant Rigoberta Menchú's biography, published in 1983, resulted in her winning the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all indigenous peoples in the Americas. Michael Collopy Collection, Hoover Institution Library and Archives

World War I U.S. Treasury Department war bonds appeal poster. Artist: Joseph C. Leyendecker. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

Distinguished Service Medal awarded to General Albert C. Wedemeyer. Albert C Wedemeyer Collection

Maggie's Farm: A Radical Guide to Stanford, 1969. New Left Collection

Back row left to right: Nathan Mendelson, Bertram Wolfe, Jay Lovestone Front row left to right: Esther Mendelson, Sasha Zimmerman, Ella Wolfe. Bertram D. Wolfe Collection

Think American Institute World War II poster. Artist: C.R. Miller. Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection

The Americas Collection contains materials from North and South America. Its primary purpose is to document political, economic, and social developments in the Western Hemisphere. Collecting on the United States has focused on the history of this country during the two world wars and the Korean and Vietnam Wars and on U.S. foreign policy and relations with other countries throughout the twentieth century. The South American Collection encompasses political and, to a lesser degree, economic and social developments in selected countries. Over the decades the selecting of materials on North and South America has been flexible, focusing on varying subjects and periods: individual governmental, political and military leaders; official, unofficial, and clandestine organizations; and the papers of pacifists, scientists, journalists, engineers, missionaries, and others involved as individuals or organizations in making, implementing, and influencing domestic and international policy.

Curator(s)
William Ratliff