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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.

75th Jan Karski Medal Awarded to Hoover Curator Maciej Siekierski

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Dr. Maciej Siekierski, Curator of the European Collections of the Hoover Institution has been awarded the Medal of the 75th Anniversary of Jan Karski's mission

Satellite Reading Room for Digital Content Opens in DC Office

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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the Hoover Institution Washington, DC office are pleased to announce the opening of a satellite reading room for digital content.

The Library & Archives Year In Review 2018

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In the past year, the Library & Archives has honored and fulfilled our founder’s mission by continuing to acquire the world’s most significant archival materials on war, revolution, and peace

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

2018 Workshop on Authoritarianism and Democratic Breakdown

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Scholars from across the globe to discuss authoritarian regimes and research with Hoover senior fellow and Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin

Devotional Art and Rediscovered History

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

Inside the Atomic Bomb

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New Harold Agnew material reveals the history of the Hiroshima bombing

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

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Group of Dutchmen and Allied aviators crossing the Pyrenees in February of 1944

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John Henry Weidner Papers Opening For Research In The Hoover Archives

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Hoover Library & Archives is opening the John Weidner collection documenting one of the major efforts to resist the Nazis in Western Europe by organizing the rescue of Jews from arrest, helping downed Allied fliers, and assisting resisters, civilians dodging the forced labor draft, as well as those wanting to join the Allies.

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Andrew Nagorski at the Berlin Wall, early 1990, shortly after it fell

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Andrew Nagorski Interviews Available In The Hoover Library & Archives

Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Hoover Institution has acquired an oral history collection of 130 interviews, most of them with major political and cultural figures and dissident activists from Central and Eastern Europe, recorded between 1976 and 2008. Andrew Nagorski, an award-winning journalist and author...

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

Thursday, September 13, 2018

My research examines the development of the oil industry on the Arabian Peninsula and Iran from 1908 to the present. Using archival and ethnographic materials, I ask how labor relations in the oil industry shaped contemporary understandings of rights, citizenship, and state sovereignty.

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A medic area designed by Food Machinery Corporation. July 28, 1969

We Shot the War Exhibit Takes Spotlight in NY Times Article

Thursday, August 30, 2018

For more than four decades, Art Greenspon kept his recollections of photographing the Vietnam War for Overseas Weekly tucked away deep in his memory, as inaccessible as the images themselves.

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Count Mauro Tosti Valminuta, Uruguay, 1925

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Italian Diplomat’s Scrapbooks Received By The Hoover Archives

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Two albums containing an eclectic mix of materials gathered by Mauro Tosti di Valminuta, one of Benito Mussolini’s trusted diplomats, were added to Hoover holdings. The collection covers Tosti’s assignments from 1919 until 1933 in Europe and South America. The albums offer interesting vignettes from the daily life of a career Italian foreign service officer.

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