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Hoover hosts the largest single collection of digitized publications from Afghanistan

Picture of Nationalist Chinese special unit stationed on the island of Saipan

The discovery of new archival materials brings findings and interpretation to modern Chinese history.

In efforts to expand to online audiences, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ proudly present “HI Stories.”

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is excited to announce that the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection now has global coverage

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

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Ivan Pavlov and associates posing for the camera during a brief pause from their game of gorodki.
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Film Featuring Shots Of Ivan Pavlov, Scenes Of Leningrad Preserved

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

A film shot in Soviet Russia in 1930 by American medical researcher Francis Bishop was preserved with funding from a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

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Documents of deceased Polish deportees
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Newly Processed Collections Now Available At Hoover Archives

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Hoover Archives has processed and made available four new collections.

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A safe conduct pass issued in the early 1970s by the Parliamentary Democratic Party, a group led by U Nu, who had also led an armed resistance group on the Thai-Burmese border against the military rule of General Ne Win. (Burmese Subject Collection, Hoove
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Hoover Institution Opens Burmese Subject Collection

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The Hoover Institution’s newly created Burmese Subject Collection includes historical materials ranging from the British colonial period to the post-1948 independent era. Among the valuable documents are brochures, issuances, and investigative reports by the British authorities, documents pertaining to the Burmese ruling military junta and antigovernment forces from the 1950s to the 1970s, and the campaign materials of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy under her leadership.

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Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście near the Church of the Holy Cross, circa September 1944
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Central Europe In Ruins: More World War II Photographs Received By The Archives

Monday, November 9, 2015

The Hoover Archives has received 208 original black-and-white photographs taken between 1943 and 1945 in Germany and the occupied territories. The photos are a gift from History San Jose (HSJ), Silicon Valley’s largest and most comprehensive historical organization, which acquired them along with the papers of the late John H. Drieger. 

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Lindon Bates, Jr., also known as "Rox"
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Lindon Bates, Jr. “Hero Of The Lusitania” Collection Comes To The Hoover Archives

Thursday, November 5, 2015

A new collection of materials relating to Lindon “Rox” Bates, Jr., a first-class passenger on the Lusitania’s final crossing in 1915, is now open to the public at the Hoover Archives.

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