The Hoover Institution Archives has acquired the papers of Samuel Kelly, an electronic engineer involved in commercial negotiations and sales of US technology to the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s.
Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired two new collections related to its America First Committee Records. The America First Committee, active from September 1940 until the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, was the leading isolationist organization in the United States prior to America entering WWII.
Hoover has received a collection of materials created by Francis E. Stafford (1884–1938), an American lithographer and photographer who was one of very few Westerners to witness the turmoil of Chinese uprisings in 1911.
Vadim Krassovsky was a Russian émigré in China and the United States, active in émigré social, cultural, and religious institutions. These papers primarily document periods of his life and activity in China in the 1940s.
Hoover acquired the Dell and Garin Hood papers in November 2020. Mr. Dell graduated from the University of Texas in 1962 with a degree in Russian language and literature. He was accepted into the Peace Corps for ...