Hoover’s European collections have added a valuable item to its holdings, an album of thirty-five mounted photographs documenting the history of Checkpoint Charlie, the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.  Covering the years 1946 to 1989, the album was printed in 1990 from contemporary and earlier negatives, showing the wall, important moments in the wall’s history, noted visits to the wall by Willy Brant, JFK, Ronald Reagan, and others and other images of the Cold War icon and its context.

The Hoover Archives is pleased to announce the opening of the Edward Rozek papers that document the life and work of the Polish-born US political scientist and conservative thinker. Highlights of the collection include his unpublished memoirs, correspondence with key individuals within the conservative movement, and audio recordings from the Institute for the Study of Comparative Politics and Ideologies featuring Sidney Hook, Edward Teller, Walter Judd, and others.

The Hoover Institution Library and Archives are pleased to announce the opening of the Communist Chinese Political Movement Collection. 

Before the West became acquainted with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leszek Kołakowski, Lech Wałesa, or Vaclav Havel, it was introduced to the works of Milovan Djilas, the first prominent dissident in the history of communist Eastern Europe. Djilas’s books were published in English by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, which was then owned by the author’s friend, William “Bill” Jovanovich. The newly acquired papers contain Djilas’s manuscripts and typescripts sent by him to Jovanovich, both published and unpublished, along with correspondence and related materials.