The document provides information about publicly available collections materials (sound recordings, archival papers, photographs, publications) created by broadcasters during the years 1947-1991.
One of the most challenging tasks a historian faces is to recapture the "future-blindness" of historical actors. Major historical events like the outbreak of World War II or the fall of the Soviet Union seem inevitable in retrospect, but for people in the past the future was just as unknowable and murky as it is now.
We are pleased to announce the launch of linking Hoover digital site (https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/collections) with Calisphere. Calisphere is a gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums.
Another significant increment of materials generated a century ago by the Czechoslovak Legions on the Western Front and in Siberia has been added to the Hoover holdings. Among the trove’s notable items, acquired from sources in Germany and Turkey, are the memoirs of a Czech Legionnaire, Bohuslav Pekárek, as well as a number of ephemeral publications and imprints.
A detailed finding aid to the records of the Committee on the Present Danger has recently been completed. These voluminous records came to the Hoover Institution Archives a number of years ago. Because of their large size and lack of arrangement effective scholarly use of them has until now been impaired. After thorough arrangement and description this is no longer the case.
Robert Conquest, Hoover Institution research fellow and renowned historian of Soviet politics and foreign policy, will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George Bush on Wednesday, November 9, in Washington, D.C.
