Library & Archives

Hoover Library & Archives Reading Room Temporary Closure in 2019

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The Library & Archives reading rooms will be closed to researchers from December 24, 2018, to the early months of 2020.

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

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Hoover Library & Archives Reading Room Temporary Closure In 2019

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Silas Palmer Fellow Andrea Wright Examines Development Of The Oil Industry And Labor On The Arabian...

We Shot the War Exhibit Takes Spotlight in NY Times Article

Italian Diplomat’s Scrapbooks Received By The Hoover Archives

Alsos Mission Films Now Available For Streaming

The Art Of Diplomacy: Communication, Heritage And Technology In 1970’s Iran

Library & Archives Project Publishes Cold War Radio Research Guide

The Benefits Of Uncertainty--Reconstructing Northeast Asia's Contested Pasts And Futures

Announcement: Hoover Institution Digital Collections Launch On Calisphere University Of California

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

May. 24, 2018

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Upcoming Events

Events

Featured Events

Oct

Gallery Talk: Roger Steffens,

Oct 05, 2018

Oct

East Asia at Hoover & Hand and Eye

Oct 10, 2018

Nov

Gallery Talk: Brent Procter

Nov 02, 2018

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** The Library & Archives reading rooms will be closed Friday, September 14th, 2018 in preparation for their reopening as a combined reading room on Monday, September 17th. We apologize for any inconvenience.

** Starting September 17th, 2018 all Hoover Institution Library & Archives patrons will be served materials in the current Archives reading room, located at the courtyard level of the Herbert Hoover Memorial Building.