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The front cover of the “Report from Heidelberg.”
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Report from Heidelberg: Collection of Materials on Americans in Post–World War II Germany Donated to Hoover Archives

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The post-WWII papers of Colonel Robert J. Benford (1905–1990), commander of the US Army Air Forces Aeromedical Center in Heidelberg, have been donated to Hoover Archives.

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Silas Palmer Fellow Niall Chithelen Examines the Lives of Foreign Journalists in Twentieth-Century China

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Silas Palmer fellow Niall Chithelen uses the archive of Randall C. Gould and Milly Bennett to better understand the lives of foreign journalists in twentieth-century China.

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Recent Visiting Fellow Uses Hoover Archives to Revisit the Field of Comparative Economic Systems and the Problem of Assessing Soviet Economies

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Visiting research fellow Paul Dragos Aligica uses the archives at Hoover for the comparative analysis of economic systems.

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The Challenge Of Dawa: Political Islam As Ideology And Movement And How To Counter It

Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Stanford

The Hoover Institution Press today released The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It by Hoover research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this free downloadable report, Hirsi Ali argues that the American public urgently needs to be educated about both the ideology of political Islam, dawa, and the organizational infrastructure that Islamists use to inspire, indoctrinate, recruit, finance, and mobilize those Muslims whom they hope to win over to the extremist cause.

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Johnny Cash performing for US soldiers in Vietnam in 1971.
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Newly Digitized Vietnam War Material Now Available Online

Monday, March 20, 2017

Hoover Library & Archives is pleased to announce that two newly digitized collections related to the Vietnam War are now available online through Hoover’s digital collections portal. Hoover now has a total of 1219 Vietnam-related materials online.

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Above: Library & Archives Director Eric Wakin, Ambassador Jones, and Maciej Siekierski, Senior Curator of European collections at Hoover Library & Archives
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United States Ambassador To Poland Paul W. Jones Visits The Hoover Institution

Friday, March 17, 2017

On March 13, 2017, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives hosted Paul W. Jones, US ambassador to Poland.   Jones was interested in learning more about Hoover’s world-famous Polish holdings, the largest and most-comprehensive documentation on modern Poland outside Poland. 

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Meet The 2016–17 Class Of National Security Affairs Fellows

Thursday, March 9, 2017

National security strategists, international relations experts, and high-tech innovators take for granted the ability to think about and discuss defense and diplomacy at a broad, conceptual level. Yet some of the most valuable participants in those conversations, the United States’ rising military and diplomatic leaders, find few gaps in the demands of their careers to participate. 

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Peter Berkowitz, The Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Stanford University, Hoover Institution Wins 2017 Bradley Prize

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Peter Berkowitz, a political scientist and the Tad and Diane Taube Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is one of four recipients of the 2017 Bradley Prize. The honor recognizes individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication who have made contributions in areas consistent with the mission of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

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Partner Institutions And Volunteers Describe Hundreds Of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcasts For The Hoover Archives

Thursday, March 2, 2017

The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Historical Recording Description Project, a hybrid effort whereby crowdsourcing augments established agreements with partner institutions, produced its 500th description this week. The project, which soft-launched in January 2016, seeks to provide English-language content summaries for over 5,500 (and counting!) digitized radio broadcasts from the RFE/RL collections.

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Kenneth Arrow, Nobel-Winning Economist, Dies At 95

Friday, February 24, 2017
Hoover Institution, Stanford University

It is with sadness that I share the passing of Kenneth Arrow, one of the leading lights of economic thought of the 20th Century.  The youngest-ever winner of a Nobel prize for economics, he will be remembered as one of the most consequential economists of the post war era.  Our thoughts and condolences are with his family and friends during this difficult time. - Tom Gilligan

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