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November 12, 2008
Rehnquist Papers: Finding Aid for Materials from 1947 to 1974 Available to Researchers on November 17, 2008
STANFORD – Materials from the papers of the late Justice William H. Rehnquist involving his work from 1947 to 1971 and Supreme Court cases from the 1972 to 1974 terms will be opened to researchers on November 17, 2008, at the Hoover Institution.
October 28, 2008
HOOVER INSTITUTION ANNOUNCES DATES FOR ACCESS TO THE PAPERS OF CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST
STANFORD – The papers of Supreme Court justice William H. Rehnquist for the 1972 and 1973 Supreme Court terms will be opened to researchers at the Hoover Institution Archives on November 17. Papers from the 1974 Supreme Court term in the Rehnquist Collection and his correspondence files from 1972 through 2005 will be opened by January 5, 2009.
October 24, 2008
A sound recording from May 3, 1952, of retired admiral Harold B. "Min" Miller
A sound recording from May 3, 1952, of retired admiral Harold B. "Min" Miller was recently discovered in Hoover's Radio Free Europe archives...
October 22, 2008
PAPERS OF LATE U.S. CHIEF JUSTICE WILLIAM REHNQUIST DONATED TO HOOVER INSTITUTION
STANFORD – The papers of Supreme Court justice William H. Rehnquist for the 1972 and 1973 Supreme Court terms will be opened to researchers at the Hoover Institution Archives on Monday, November 17, 2008. Rehnquist's papers from the 1974 term and his correspondence files from 1972 through 2005 will be opened by January 5, 2009.
October 9, 2008
New Finding Aids Posted Online
September 24, 2008
New Finding Aids Posted Online
September 11, 2008
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.
A select group of television broadcasts from the Firing Line collection held in the Hoover Archives is now available as DVDs.
September 8, 2008
Agnes F. Peterson, longtime Hoover Institution curator, dies at 85
Agnes F. Peterson, who served as reference librarian and curator at the Hoover Institution for 41 years, died in Los Altos on September 1, 2008, after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Professor John Peterson.
August 29, 2008
Hoover Institution Associate Archivist Bradley Bauer
Hoover Institution Associate Archivist Bradley Bauer chaired the session “Ethnic Archives: Collecting within Cultural Contexts” at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists held in San Francisco in August 2008.
August 13, 2008
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Materials in the Hoover Institution Archives
The large crowds visiting the Frida Kahlo exhibit now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art testify to the enduring interest in the life and works of this unusual artist, whose fame now eclipses that of her husband, Diego Rivera, the celebrated Mexican muralist.
August 13, 2008
Selected Firing Line Programs Available on Amazon.com
DVDs of fifty programs of William F. Buckley's Firing Line television series are available for $10 each at Amazon.com. Most of the programs date from 1966 to 1968, with such guests as Allen Ginsberg, Dick Gregory, Hugh Hefner, Timothy Leary, Clare Booth Luce, Malcolm Muggeridge, Ronald Reagan, and Dame Rebecca West.
July 28, 2008
New Finding Aids Posted Online
July 17, 2008
Postwar Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on July 18, 2008
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1946 to 1955 are available to researchers at the Hoover Library and Archives as of July 18, 2008. They join earlier Chiang diaries from 1917 to 1945, which were opened in 2006 and 2007.
July 8, 2008
Digital Images of Hoover's China Posters Are Online; Russian and Soviet Posters to Follow
Several hundred images of posters from China are available in a searchable catalog of the Hoover Archives poster collection. About three thousand posters from Russia and the Soviet Union are being scanned and added to the database in July. More than one thousand poster images are already online.
June 17, 2008
Saddam papers come to Bay Area
Amid the chaos of the U.S. lead invasion of Iraq there was discovery. There are volumes of records found in the basement of the Baath Party's regional headquarters in Baghdad. Go to the story
June 5, 2008
Juan Domingo Perón Papers
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives have long collected materials relating to Peronism, a movement, founded by Argentine leader Juan Domingo Perón...
June 5, 2008
Scheduled web server maintenance June 16, 2008 through June 18, 2008
Some of Hoover's web servers will be undergoing maintenance beginning on Monday, June 16, 2008. Some content will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
May 23, 2008
Vaira Vike-Freiberga’s Visit to the Hoover Institution Library and Archives
As part of her visit to the Stanford campus, former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga visited the Hoover Institution Library and Archives on May 15, 2008, where she was shown items connected to the history of her country.
May 19, 2008
Major Addition to the Milton Friedman Papers
The Hoover Institution Archives has recently acquired an addition to the papers of economist Milton Friedman. A guide to the papers is now available describing both original and new materials.
May 14, 2008
Statement Regarding the Robert L. Capp Collection
A recently released book, Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan, by Professor Sean L. Malloy of the University of California, Merced...
May 12, 2008
New Finding Aids for Pictorial Collections Posted Online
April 29, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
April 24, 2008
Hoover Institution News Release: Hoover Institution Library and Archives Open Exhibit Highlighting the Role of Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters in the West
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives exhibition To Choose Freedom: Soviet Dissidents and Their Supporters offers a glimpse into the era of repression against Soviet human rights activists, focusing on the years that followed Khrushchev’s “thaw” in the late 1950s up through the era of perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s.
April 4, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
March 7, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
February 27, 2008
Hoover Institution News Advisory: Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of William F. Buckley Jr's. Show Firing Line
The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. In addition to the television show he hosted, Buckley, who died today, was a columnist, author, and founded National Review in 1955.
February 13, 2008
The Hoover Institution and the Lithuanian Archives Department Agree to Exchange Documents
The Hoover Institution and the Lithuanian Archives Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, have entered an agreement under which they will exchange documents with each other.
January 30, 2008
From Hoover Press: Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives by Paul R. Gregory
In Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives(Hoover Institution Press, 2008) Hoover fellow Paul R. Gregory has written 14 tales drawn from the Hoover Institution’s collections on the Soviet state and party archives.
January 15, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
January 8, 2008
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
December 18, 2007
Hoover Publishes Lost Verbatim Records of the Politburo
In November 2007 a four-year cooperative project between the Russian State Archives of Socio-Political History and the Hoover Institution was marked by publication of three volumes of verbatim records (stenograms) of the Politburo of the Russian (later All-Union) Communist Party Central Committee. The volumes, edited by Hoover fellow Paul Gregory and Russian scholars Oleg Khlevnyuk, and Alexander Vatlin, were published by the Russian Political Encyclopedia Publishing House.
November 26, 2007
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
November 9, 2007
New and Updated Finding Aids Posted Online
October 26, 2007
Searchable Database of Hoover Archives Posters Now Available
More than one hundred thousand political posters from around the world are available in the Hoover Archives Poster Collection. Thirty-three thousand of these are cataloged in a searchable database.
October 25, 2007
Lei Zhen Papers Acquired by Hoover Archives
The personal papers of Lei Zhen (1897–1979), human rights activist, liberal thinker, and vigorous political opponent of Chiang Kai-shek and Kuomintang rule in post-1949 Taiwan, were recently acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
October 17, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
October 15, 2007
Digital Archive of Pasternak Family Papers Now Available
The first segment of the Pasternak Family Papers digital archive is available in the Hoover Archives reading room.
October 12, 2007
The Life of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago Culture and the Cold War
Held on Stanford campus October 19-20, 2007, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Doctor Zhivago, the symposium was sponsored by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution.
October 1, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
September 21, 2007
2008 Presidential Candidates Recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California
The speeches of the 2008 presidential hopefuls are well represented among the thousands of sound recordings of Commonwealth Club of California events stored at the Hoover Archives.
September 7, 2007
New Finding Aids Posted Online
August 28, 2007
Janusz Krupski, Polish minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression, visits Hoover
Janusz Krupski, minister from the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression in Poland, visited the Hoover Institution on August 27, 2007.
February 20, 2007
Commonwealth Club Radio Program Collection
More than two thousand sound recordings of speakers addressing the Commonwealth Club of California are housed at the Hoover Archives and described in a searchable database.
March 31, 2006
Earliest Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek Open for Research on March 31, 2006
The diaries of Chiang Kai-shek from 1917 to 1931 will be opened on March 31, 2006. The remainder of the diaries will be opened sequentially during the next few years.
January 20, 2006
Arnold Rüütel, president of Estonia, visits the Hoover Institution
Before delivering a policy address at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies on January 20, 2006, His Excellency Arnold Rüütel, president of Estonia, visited the Hoover Institution.
October 19, 2005
"Revolutionary Eye" Exhibition Artist Speaks on Life, Art, and the Former East Germany
The Hoover Library and Archives hosted a wine and cheese reception for Wolfgang Janisch, the featured artist in the exhibition 'Revolutionary Eye: The Political Poster Art of Wolfgang Janisch: 1979-1999.
September 27, 2005
Digital Collection: Survey of Race Relations Records available online
In the early 1920s, a group of scholars set out to make a complete investigation of economic, religious, educational, civic, biological, and social conditions among the Chinese, Japanese, and other non-white residents of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada. Extension of the study into northern Mexico and Hawaii was contemplated as well.
September 21, 2005
Latvian Foreign Minister Visits Hoover Institution
Latvia's Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks visited the Hoover Institution on September 21, 2005, where he viewed library and archival materials relating to Latvian history.
November 29, 2004
Archivist Offers a Look at a Day in the Life of the Hoover Archives
'A Day in the Life of the Hoover Archives,' a presentation by Hoover research fellow and project archivist Anatol Shmelev, November 4 and 5, offered a rarely seen look into the internal workings of the Hoover Library and Archives.
October 15, 2004
Hoover Institution, Woodrow Wilson Center Organize Conference on Impact of Cold War Broadcasting
International researchers and former officials are meeting at the Hoover Institution to address the impact of Western broadcasting - especially Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - during the Cold War.
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