Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Library & Archives
Since 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University has been an international center for documentation and research. It serves as a learning organization and a repository of knowledge holding more than one million volumes and nearly 7,000 archival collections pertaining to war, revolution, and peace.
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For over 100 years, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives has served as a platform for a vibrant community of scholars and a broad public interested in the meaning and role of history. We collect, preserve, describe, and make available for research the most important library material and archival collections on war, revolution and peace from across the globe. We build connections to these records through a robust program of fellowships, workshops, exhibitions, and outreach.
The activities of the Library & Archives are carried out with Herbert Hoover’s words in mind:
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The overall mission of this Institution is, from its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life. This Institution is not, and must not be, a mere library. But with these purposes as its goal, the Institution itself must constantly and dynamically point the road to peace.
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Hoover Acquires Wartime Journals Of Imperial Japanese Navy Captain Shimoda
January 20, 2026
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Kaoru Ueda
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Kaoru Ueda
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Hoover Daily Report
Digital Publishing Efforts Advance, Seven Historic Collections Now Available for Research at Hoover
April 2, 2026
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Court Rules Li Rui Collection To Remain At The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
A district court in Oakland, CA, has ruled to uphold the expressed wishes of Li Rui, a former…
March 31, 2026
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Condoleezza Rice
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Hoover Daily Report
Fighters of Both Hot and Cold Wars: Hoover Acquires Personal Papers of Nationalist Chinese Military Leaders
February 2, 2026
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Hsiao-ting Lin
featuring the work of
Hsiao-ting Lin
Hoover Acquires the Papers of Shuja Nawaz, Distinguished Journalist and Advisor on South Asian and Middle Eastern Affairs
March 3, 2026
By
Eric Wakin
featuring the work of
Eric Wakin
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Hoover Daily Report
Russia Abroad Digital Collection Surpasses One Million Pages Digitized In First Year
November 18, 2025
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Hoover Daily Report
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September 9, 2025 to May 10, 2026
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Eastern Europe And Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed
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September 23, 2026 to September 24, 2026
第4 回ジャパニーズ・ディアスポラ国際ワークショップ
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September 23, 2026 to September 24, 2026
Fourth International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora
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June 12, 2025
Film Screening: The Barbie Tapes
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July 13, 2025
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Traversing The Socio-Economic Frontiers Of The Empire Of Japan And The Pacific World
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November 4, 2025
Book Talk: "The Man Who Invented Conservatism" By Daniel Flynn
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February 12, 2026
Wilson Bentley’s Army Of Souls: A Photographic Requiem Of The American Civil War
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March 24, 2026
Wargaming The Pacific: Lessons From The Naval War College's Interwar Games
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April 9, 2026
The Afghanistan Oral Histories Launch: War, Aftermath, And Memory
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February 13, 2025
Fragmented Visions: Civil War China In Lost Films By American Jesuit Missionaries, 1947–1948
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March 4, 2025
Archives Uncovered: Revealing The Third Reich And The Inner Lives Of Extremists
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June 3, 2025
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life Of Xi Zhongxun, Father Of Xi Jinping
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November 20, 2025
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Gallery Talk: Behind The Scenes Of "Eastern Europe And Beyond"
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April 30, 2026
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Hoover’s “Photographic Albums Revealed”: Looking Back And Ahead
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November 7, 2024
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Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project To Microfilm And Publish The Soviet Archives
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December 10, 2024
Gallery Talk: Mounting Flat Paper Objects For Display By Laurent Cruveillier
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April 22, 2025
Journey Through Hoover’s Past And Present: The Origin And Operations Of The Library & Archives
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September 10, 2024
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Crafting Japanese Immigrant Nationalism In 1930s’ Hawai‘i
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