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Hoover Acquires Samuel Kelly Papers

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

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.

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Hoover Acquires The Papers Of American Diplomat William C. Burdett

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Hoover Archives has acquired a collection of scrapbooks, photograph albums, documents, and ephemera belonging to American diplomat William C. Burdett.

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Wang Zuanxu in the 1930s.
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Hoover Acquires Personal Papers Of Wang Zuanxu, A Nationalist Chinese Military Leader From Sichuan Province

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Hoover has acquired the personal papers of nationalist Chinese military leader Wang Zuanxu.

 

 
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Hoover Acquires The Papers Of Economist Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.

Thursday, March 18, 2021

Hoover Archives has acquired a collection of materials related to the life and career of economist Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.

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Hoover Acquires the Papers of Economist June O’Neill

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Hoover has acquired the papers of free market economist and Hoover fellow June O’Neill.

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Wang Jingwei, one of the most controversial and complex political leaders in modern China.
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Hoover Acquires Personal Papers Of Wang Jingwei, A Top Leader Of The Chinese Nationalist Party And Prominent Political Figure In Modern China

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Hoover has acquired the papers of Wang Jingwei, one of the most controversial and complex political leaders in modern China.

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Hoover Acquires Two New America First Collections

Monday, February 1, 2021

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.

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The people of Shanghai declared their change of political allegiance by flying the new five-color republican Chinese flag, ca 1912.

Witnessing the Revolution: The Hoover Archives Acquires More Francis E. Stafford Rare Photos

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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.

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Hoover Institution Acquires Vadim Krassovsky Papers

Thursday, December 10, 2020

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.

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Hoover acquired the Dell and Gerin Hood papers in November 2020

Thursday, December 10, 2020

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 ...

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