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The US collections provide rich coverage of domestic political, social, and intellectual movements in the modern era, as well as US foreign policy and engagement abroad, especially of the two world wars and American/Soviet relations during the Cold War. Other collecting strengths are émigré communities—particularly Eastern European groups—within the United States and international education.
President of the United States, 1939–33
Miscellaneous printed matter, 1963––2004
US deputy attorney general, 1967–69; US secretary of state, 1993–97
Chief justice, US Supreme Court, 1986–2005
US economist; member of President’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, 1981–88
Assistant director, Los Alamos, 1949–52; director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1954–75
US diplomat
US army general in China-Burma-India theater
US educator and author
US longshoreman and author
US author and representative to the Communist International, 1928–29
US educator; director, Stanford International Development Education Center, 1963–68
Election campaign materials, 1976–83
Television program hosted by William F. Buckley, 1966–99
Jean M. Cannon is a research fellow and curator for North American Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University, where she specializes in acquisitions, education, exhibitions, and scholarly publications. She received a PhD in English L...
The Hoover Institution Archives is pleased to announce the opening of the Warren Christopher papers, which document the long career of this US statesmen and Stanford Law School alumnus.
The Hoover Archives is pleased to announce the opening of materials relating to the government service of Herbert Hoover Jr., the son of President Herbert Hoover. This recently declassified set of papers documents Hoover's time as undersecretary of state during the Eisenhower administration, covering the period 1954 to 1957. Among the issues addressed are US base rights in the Philippine Islands, US/Israeli relations, the Suez Canal crisis, and foreign policy in the Middle East more broadly.
As Stanford University sends off another graduating class into the world, students are faced with a bewildering array of questions: Should they continue on to graduate studies or immediately look for a job? Can a new graduate even find a job in this difficult economy? And what does the future hold in store for someone with a newly minted degree as he or she leaves “The Farm”?
More than two thousand sound recordings of speakers addressing the Commonwealth Club of California are housed at the Hoover Archives and described in a searchable database.
A guide to the paper documents in the Firing Line broadcast collection is available online.
Sixty Firing Line transcripts are available on Hoover’s Firing Line database, with more to come.
