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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Learning from Experience: A Symposium Celebrating the Life, Work, and Ninety-Fifth Birthday of George P. Shultz
In December 2015, the Hoover Institution celebrated the ninety-fifth birthday of George P. Shultz, former secretary of state, secretary of labor, and secretary of the Treasury; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; and the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
New Books from Hoover Fellows:Initiative: Human Agency and Society By Tibor Machan
Michael McFaul, Peter and Helen Bing Research Fellow at Hoover Institution, begins new joint appointment with Hoover, Stanford
Eriks Jekabsons’ Magnum Opus On American Assistance To Latvia Released In Riga
Professor Eriks Jekabsons of the University of Latvia, a historian who has worked at the Hoover Institution several times during the past decade, has written an 800-page monograph on relations between Latvia and the United States, with special emphasis on the American aid to that country during 1918−22. The publication is based mostly on documentation found in the Hoover Archives and is richly illustrated with photographs from Hoover holdings.
Hoover Institution Hosts Conference on Promoting Global Entrepreneurship
U.S. secretaries of state George P. Shultz and Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University president John Hennessy were among the featured speakers at a conference at the Hoover Institution on the “How and Why of Promoting Entrepreneurship Abroad.”
Summer 2013 Board of Overseers’ Meeting at Hoover
The Hoover Institution hosted its annual Board of Overseers’ summer meeting during July 9–11, 2013.
The program began on Tuesday evening with before-dinner remarks by Paul D. Clement, a partner at Bancroft PLLC. Clement served as the forty-third solicitor general of the United States from June 2005 until June 2008. He has argued more than sixty-five cases before the US Supreme Court. During Clement’s speech, titled “Federalism in the Roberts Court,” he talked about the revitalization of federalism in the Rehnquist court “imposing some limits on the federal government’s power vis-a-vis the states.”
Hoover fellows, associates honored by AAAS for work to reduce threat of nuclear weapons
STANFORD – Three Hoover Institution senior fellows and two distinguished associates were honored on October 12 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their collaborative and ongoing efforts to reduce the global threat of nuclear weapons.
America and the Future of War: The Past as Prologue Examines What History Suggests about the Future Possibilities and Characteristics of War
The Hoover Institution Press today released America and the Future of War: The Past as Prologue, by Williamson Murray, explains why America must remain prepared to use its military power to deal with an unstable, uncertain, and fractious world.
Black History Month Profile: George P. Shultz and School Desegregation in America’s South
In this profile for Black History Month, the Hoover Institution looks back on how the late distinguished fellow George P. Shultz led efforts to dismantle the discriminatory and dual school system of the nation’s South fifty years ago.
New Finding Aids Posted Online
Finding aids to the collections described below are now available through the Online Archive of California.
Stanford Professor Wins Labor Economics Prize
Hoover Institution announces National Fellows for 1999-2000 academic year.
Hoover Joins National Review Institute In Celebrating The Golden Anniversary Of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Firing Line
In May and June, Hoover Library & Archives joined National Review Institute in hosting three fiftieth anniversary events in honor of William F. Buckley Jr.'s landmark television show, Firing Line. The events in Dallas, New York, and Washington DC coincided with Hoover's current exhibition, Civil Discourse: William F. Buckley Jr.'s Firing Line, 1966-1999, now on display in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion.
Silas Palmer Fellow Traces The Iranian Diaspora In The United States
The first wave of Iranian migration to the United States happened decades before the 1979 Revolution; many came to the U.S. as student sojourners looking to receive an American education. Many also used the opportunity to protest and distribute information about the Shah’s political policies, social conditions in Iran, and the lived realities of American imperialism. It is from this engagement that expressions of resistance among Iranians in the United States expanded to encompass a diverse array of political leanings.
Hoover Institution Fellow Arye Carmon Contends That Israel Needs A Constitution
In the seventy years since its founding, the state of Israel has built all the hardware of a thriving formal democracy—institutions, procedures, and elections—but has yet to fully install the software that will allow it to emerge as a substantive democracy, argued Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow Ayre Carmon in a discussion with SF Weekly writer Jonathan Curiel at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club.
George P. Shultz’s Lifetime of Service and Contributions Recognized at Symposium in His Honor
Memoirs of King Kong Director and War Hero at Hoover
Merian Caldwell Cooper would be a top candidate for the "Most Interesting Man in the World." Although Cooper is known for his 1933 production of King Kong, there were many more interesting episodes in his life in addition to that iconic movie. Indeed, in the words of the film historian Richard Schickel, “his career was larger than life.” Expelled from Annapolis in his senior year for advocating air power, a view the navy frowned on, in 1916 he joined the Georgia National Guard and served with General Pershing’s expedition against Pancho Villa.
Hoover Archives Research Fellow Investigates the Hyperinflation and Collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s China, 1944-1948
Hoover Archives research fellow Parks M. Coble, of the University of Nebraska, describes his research on the economic conditions in Chiang Kai-shek’s China in the 1940s.
The Status of the Welfare State in a Free-Market Society: A Review of Intellectual Controversies since World War Ⅱ
In the Western world, it is widely acknowledged that the Welfare state has gradually eroded since the end of the 1970s due to a range of liberalization and deregulation policies, such as the privatization of social insurance schemes, the decentralization of Welfare services or increases in competition between Welfare providers.
Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Summer 2008 Meeting
In an overview of the Hoover Institution at this year’s Board of Overseers summer meeting, John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director, spoke of Hoover’s accomplishments and plans for growth.