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These collections focus on political, social, and economic conditions in Afghanistan in the modern period. Particularly well documented are the Soviet invasion, the civil war of 1992, and US military operations during the war in Afghanistan beginning in 2001. Other topics include US economic assistance and development of education.
Four thousand individual issues of twenty-nine newspapers, journals, and magazines relating to political conditions and warfare in Afghanistan
Miscellaneous materials
Materials related to Afghanistan from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
Associated Press photographer in Afghanistan, 2002–4
Afghan women’s association, 1990–2001
Materials related to the civil war in Afghanistan, 1993–97
Photojournalist and author, A Taste for Hot Steel: Frontline Encounters of a Foreign Correspondent
Journalist and author, Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager’s Story
Digital Collections: Radio Free Afghanistan sound recordings
Born-digital photographs depicting US National Guard units deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and images of leaflets and flyers distributed in those countries, are available for research at the Hoover Archives.
