Library & Archives

We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam

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Rarely seen photographs take center stage for the Hoover Library & Archives’ new exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam.

Stephen Kotkin Author of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, Speaks at Hoover Institution

Stalin, Hitler, and the Dynamics of Power During World War II

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Hoover senior fellow and Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin on his recent publication Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1920–1941

Russia, Romanovs, Revolution

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Hoover Memorial past exhibition, The Crown Under the Hammer

The Hoover Library & Archives Year in Review

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We take a look back at the expansion, preservation, events, and exhibitions of 2017

Devotional Art and Rediscovered History

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Masuo Kitaji’s hand-illustrated Japanese translation Bibles acquired by Hoover

Collection Of World War II Christmas Cards Donated To The Hoover Archives

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Newly acquired albums by Rudy Kikel of German and American Christmas cards

Scholars Gather For First Annual Japanese Diaspora Initiative Workshop

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Hoover launches a new workshop featuring research in the Hoji Shinbun collection

U.S. Psychological Warfare in Korea and Vietnam

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Read about Silas Palmer fellow Katy Doll's research on American "psychwar"

Cold War Broadcasting

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Hoover scholars and staff discuss radio preservation in Washington D.C.

Race and Conservatism

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Harvard historian Leah Wright Rigueur on African Americans and the GOP

Inside the Atomic Bomb

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New Harold Agnew material reveals the history of the Hiroshima bombing

Hoover Archives 2017 high school interns, Sydney Durden and Ava Rose

A Summer in the Stacks

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Two high school interns at Hoover Archives reflect on their firsthand archival experiences

WWI Beyond the Western Perspective

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Stanford News features Stanford Teaching Festival's visit to Hoover Library & Archives

Introducing Aeon

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Hoover launches a new online request system

Historian Hew Strachan in conversation with Hoover staff members. Strachan delivered the keynote address for the 2017 "Hunger Draws the Map" conference.

The Geopolitics of Food Relief

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Hoover hosts the 2017 "Hunger Draws the Map" conference

From Capital Hill to Hoover

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Library & Archives hosts Hoover's 2017 Congressional Fellows

Friedman on the Free Market

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Hoover launches the world's largest digital hub of Milton Friedman materials

A dollar bill carried aboard and signed by the members of the bombing crew on July 1, 1946 (Beth Flippen Scheel collection, box 1)

Bombs Over Bikini

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Hoover marks the seventieth anniversary of the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests with the release of rare sound recordings

Participants of the 2016 Hoover Library & Archives Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes

"The Most Interesting Archives in the World"

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Hoover fellow and Stanford historian Norman Naimark addresses the 2016 Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes

Churchill in Cuba

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Hoover preserves and makes available new footage of Churchill's 1940s travel in Cuba

The Year in Review

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Read about Hoover Library & Archives' 2016 events, exhibitions, and publications

Firing Line at Fifty

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Hoover Library & Archives marks the fiftieth anniversary of the show with the exhibition Civil Discourse: William F. Buckley Jr.'s Firing Line, 1966-1999

Student delegates from the Stanford US-Russia Forum view documents and photographs from Russian collections at Hoover Archives

Students in the Archives

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Student delegates from Stanford's US-Russia Forum visit Hoover Library & Archives

Chief of State Pétain greets his supporters, Vichy, May 1944

The Lion of Verdun

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Hoover Archives acquires the family photographs of Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France

Herbert Hoover Subject Collection, Envelope SSS, Hoover Institution Archives

Collections on Herbert Hoover

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Explore the life and career of the 31st president

Russia on the Radio

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Hoover Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Russian Service archive now available online

Latest News:

History Matters: A Fellow Makes Sense Of China’s Present Through Its Past

‘Forward Ever’: Post-Colonial Capitalism And Socialism In Ghana, 1957-1966

Panel Discussion On The Vietnam War Opens New Exhibition

Hoover Institution Acquires Ashizawa Papers Highlighting The Hokubei Butokukai

Patriotic Education Literature From The Russian Federation

Professor Yuma Totani Discussed Recently Acquired Shigemitsu Sketchbooks

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty promotional films from the 1950s-60s now available on YouTube

485 Days At Majdanek By Jerzy Kwiatkowski

Polish Scholar Researching Ignacy Jan Paderewski In The Hoover Archives

Taiwan Former President Ma Ying-jeou Visits The Hoover Institution Library And Archives

Current Exhibition

We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam

Rarely seen photographs take center stage for the Hoover Library & Archives’ new exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam.

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Explore our past and future exhibits, the Hoover Tower, and the Stanford campus

Upcoming Events

Events

Featured Events

May

Exhibit Opening;

The Baltic Way; Munger Rotunda, Cecil H. Green Library

May

Exhibition Opening;We Shot the War, Herbert Hoover Pavilion

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Visiting the Hoover Library and Archives? The Hoover Institution is located on the campus of Stanford University. For full details please visit this page.

Hours and Directions

Visiting the Hoover Library and Archives? The Hoover Institution is located on the campus of Stanford University. For full details please visit this page.