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Hoover Acquires Wartime Journals Of Imperial Japanese Navy Captain Shimoda

These materials contain firsthand accounts of Pacific War carrier operations - from Pearl Harbor to Tinian - including original maps and rare reflections from inside Japan's naval air forces. 

Hoover Acquires The Archives Of Award-Winning Biographer Heath Hardage Lee

This collection offers insights into the craft of modern biography, the recovery of women’s voices in American political history, and the transformation of archival evidence into public knowledge.

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Hoover Acquires Family Papers Of Yang Yongtai, An Influential Bureaucrat In Chiang Kai-shek’s Regime

Donated by Yang's descendants, these rare materials include family photographs and personal papers that shed new light on leadership, politics, ideology, and conflict in Republican China during the 1930s. 

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Newly Cataloged Library Materials Fall 2025

From Cold War accusations of biological warfare and debates over the role of journalism to the dynamics of postwar Yugoslav repression and the literary culture of Soviet intelligence, this fall's newly cataloged items cover a broad spectrum of 20th century history. Reserve a seat in the Reading Room to explore them. 

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Hoover Acquires Collections Documenting Lives Of Imperial Japanese Navy Aviators, Including Kamikaze Pilots, During Final Stages Of World War II

The newly acquired Yokaren collection offers a rare and human window into the lives of young Imperial Japanese Navy aviators — many of whom became kamikaze pilots. By making these materials accessible, Hoover enables the continued study of World War II in the Pacific.

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Hoover Acquires the Collection of Oral Historian Griffin Fariello

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello.