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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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Polish Visitors to the Hoover Library and Archives
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Polish Visitors To The Hoover Library And Archives

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Hoover has welcomed several researchers from Poland this summer, in part thanks to the Silas Palmer Fellowship program inaugurated by the Library and Archives.  The Silas Palmer fellows included Maciej Milczanowski, Michał Przeperski and Nicholas Siekierski. 

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William Tonesk translating for General Dwight Eisenhower, Warsaw, 1945 (William John Tonesk Papers, Hoover Institution Archives)

New Finding Aids to Poland & Polish Émigré Collections Now Available

Monday, July 20, 2015

New finding aids to four collections relating to Poland and Polish émigrés are now available through the Online Archive of California. Highlights include case files from a Polish relief organization in Germany, documents about Radio Free Europe's 1993 closing of its Polish Service, and photographs of General Dwight Eisenhower in postwar Warsaw.

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Hoover Library & Archives And Citizen Film Collaboration Featured On National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”

Monday, July 20, 2015

On July 17th, National Public Radio host Robert Siegel interviewed eighty-nine-year-old violinist Stuart Canin. Canin holds the distinction of being a World War II veteran, a former concert master of the San Francisco Symphony, and the subject of the forthcoming documentary The Rifleman’s Violin, which tells the dramatic story of Canin’s musical performance, given at the age of 19, for Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill during the July 1945 Potsdam Conference. A collaboration between Hoover Library & Archives and Citizen Film, The Rifleman’s Violin tells the remarkable story of how the young GI bearing a “$2, cigar-box violin” came to play Pugnani and Tchaikovsky in front of the most powerful men in the world. 

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Magnolia Pictures And Academy Award-Winning Director Morgan Neville Release New Documentary About William F. Buckley Jr.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

On July 31, Magnolia Pictures and directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) will release Best of Enemies, a film based on the famous 1968 political debate between leftist writer and polemicist Gore Vidal and conservative TV host William F. Buckley Jr. The archive of William F. Buckley’s thirty-three-year-long television series Firing Line is among the most used collections at Hoover Library & Archives; it includes broadcasts, transcripts, and administrative files, some of which illuminate the notorious animosity between Buckley and Vidal.

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New Descriptions of US and Canada Collections Now Available

Monday, July 13, 2015

New finding aids to fifteen collections from the US and Canada are now available through the Online Archive of California. Highlights include an FBI agent's research on "subversives" in the US during the Cold War, memorabilia from Herbert Hoover's presidential campaigns, and poetry by a Canadian satirist.

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