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Americans Now Live Farther From Their Employers
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How Election Rules Affect Who Wins
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FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
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Strategika

Strategika

An online journal that analyzes ongoing issues of national security in light of conflicts of the past.

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The United States Really Can Deter Iran, But Only If It Really Wants To
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How To Stop Iran
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The Caravan

The Caravan

The Caravan is a quarterly publication on the contemporary dilemmas of the Greater Middle East

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October 7 And American Grand Strategy
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Defense Of The Middle East
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California on Your Mind

California on Your Mind

Analysis, politics, and the economics of the Golden State

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California’s New Fast-Food Law Shows How Bankrupt The State’s Regulatory Process Has Become
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California’s Primary Results: Polemics 1, Policy Debates 0
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Birmingham, 1963: Three Witnesses To The Struggle For Civil Rights

Mary Bush, Freeman Hrabowski, and Condoleezza Rice grew up and were classmates together in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, in the late 1950s and early ’60s. We reunited them for a conversation in Birmingham’s Westminster Presbyterian Church, where Rice’s father was pastor during that period.

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US Labor Markets Since March 2020: A Conversation With Ayşegül Şahin

Join Steven Davis and Ayşegül Şahin to learn how the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic spurred remote work, instigated the “great resignation,” drove job vacancy rates to all-time highs, restrained overall wage growth, altered the structure of wages, and made it harder for the Fed to assess the state of the labor market. Don’t miss this deep dive into the extraordinary behavior of US labor markets since March 2020.

The State of the Union . . . and a Biden-Trump Rematch

The State of the Union… And A Biden-Trump Rematch | GoodFellows With Victor Davis Hanson

Following Super Tuesday’s results, with the US presidential election still the better part of eight months away, a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is all but certain. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover senior fellow and author of the soon-to-be-released book The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, joins Hoover senior fellows John Cochrane and H.R. McMaster to discuss.

Matters of Policy & Politics

California Update - Proposition 1 Wasn’t The Yeast Of The Governor’s Worries

Election results, the controversy over Panera Bread and a gubernatorial chum seemingly exempted from a California minimum-wage increase for fast-food chains, and more.

Library & Archives
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A World-Class Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is home to some of the world's most renowned collections documenting war, revolution, peace, and political, economic, and social change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. 

Free and open to all, discover how to search the collections, arrange a research visit, or explore exhibitions by clicking below.

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Exhibitions | Now On View

The exhibitions Un-Presidented: Watergate and Power in America (February 12–August 11, 2024) and Hoover@100: Ideas Defining A Century (ongoing) are open and free to all visitors to Hoover Tower, at the heart of Stanford University campus.

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Research Services

Planning an onsite visit to the reading room? Conducting your research from afar? Staff are ready to connect you with the most relevant materials through reference consultations, assisting with registration and material requests, digitization, and more.

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The Collections

Acquiring, preserving, and making accessible collections of enduring value, including more than one million library volumes and over six thousand archival collections.

Digital First Initiative

Our aim is to make full archival collections accessible to researchers around the world through the digitization of textual, graphical, sound, and moving-image materials.

Engagement & Outreach

Building connections to our collections by sparking curiosity in audiences interested in the meaning and role of history through exhibitions, classes, tours, and special programing.

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This week in 1859, the opera Faust – the tale of a man who makes a deal with the Devil – premiered in Paris. A modern-day Faustian bargain

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