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Hoover Preserves Rare, Reformatted Footage Of The First Atomic Bombings

Now available through the Library & Archives' Digital Collections portal in higher resolution, this film serves as both vital scientific evidence and a profound visual testimony on the 80th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. 

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Hoover Makes Available The Newly Processed Papers Of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

The departure and landing times of Air Force One, the appropriate days for debates, and favorable times for summits with Gorbachev. Move over, Simon Says, and make way for what Joan Says. Explore how an astrologer's direction steered presidential travel, public appearances, and meetings. 

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Hoover Acquires Sándor Kopácsi Papers

Containing personal writings, correspondence, interviews, reports, and photographs, this collection is an essential resource for studying Hungary’s political history, including the 1956 revolution and its aftermath.

More Historic Materials on Contemporary Taiwan Come to Hoover

Two new collections provide valuable insights into the history of Taiwan from the 1970s to the 2010s.

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Newly Cataloged Library Materials Spring 2025

'Rebels' with a cause (and choir), scandalous children's coloring books, a beautifully illustrated Bohemia, and First World War photograph reproductions gifted by the Yugoslav Royal Consulate are among this spring's featured library materials. Reserve a seat in the Reading Room to explore them in-person. 

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The Typewriter That Launched National Review, Now At Hoover

Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–2008), has donated the typewriter that “launched the modern conservative movement”, among other materials, to the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.