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Slide Shows
Most Recent Slide Shows
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.
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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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New Increment of the Papers of Friedrich von Hayek
Some of the last remaining papers of the economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992) arrived at the Hoover Institution Archives in May.
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Hoover Institution May 2009 Retreat
The focus at the retreat was on the economy. Many of Hoover’s top economists spoke on the causes of the financial crisis and its consequences.
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Hoover Institution April 2009 Retreat
Reflecting the issues and challenges that dominate the news, the retreat offered presentations on a wide array of topics, international and domestic, including education, government, national security issues, terrorism, and the economy.
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Hoover Digest 2009 No. 2
Art and images from the latest edition of the Hoover Digest
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Workshop on the Future of Central Banking
On March 30, the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Global Markets convened a one–day policy workshop on the future of central banking.
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Lacquer disc preservation at the Hoover Archives
The Hoover Institution Archives holds, among its many collections, more than a thousand instantaneous lacquer discs. Predating the invention of magnetic audiotape, lacquer dics were cut by the radio broadcast industry to record programs and transmissions. These discs consist of a base material (usually aluminum or glass), a coating of nitrocellulose (lacquer), and a binder (adhesive) that holds them together. Over time, the nitrocellulose becomes brittle and the binder breaks down, making lacquer discs universally fragile. Worse, discs from the World War II era are even more delicate because aluminum was replaced by glass during the war effort. Among Hoover’s lacquer disc holdings are the planning sessions for the United Nations, recordings of the United States Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and the earliest recorded programs of the Commonwealth Club of California.
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