Library & Archives

Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives are dedicated to documenting war, revolution, and peace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With nearly one million volumes and more than six thousand archival collections from 171 countries, Hoover supports a vibrant community of scholars and a broad public interested in the meaning and role of history.

Winter Closure

The Library & Archives and Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion will be closed from December 21, 2015–January 3, 2016

Workshop on Totalitarian Regimes

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Meet the international group of scholars studying Hoover's collections

Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, and Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet premier, on board the cruiser Ordzhonikidze, April 1956 (Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot Photographs, Box 1, Hoover Institution Archives)

Khrushchev's Cruise

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New Soviet collection revives a Cold War mystery

Das deutsche Reich: ungekurzte Sonderausgabe (1934)

A Secret Book

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by Paul Thomas via Behind the Scenes

Herbert Hoover Subject Collection, Envelope SSS, Hoover Institution Archives

Collections on Herbert Hoover

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Explore the life and career of the 31st president

Latest News:

“Sailed With A Kiss:” More Soviet Navy Photos Added To The Archives

National Review Article By Hoover L...

Declassified Materials Returned To Collections

More Of Polish Foreign Minister’s Papers Received By Hoover Archives

Hoover L&A Now Accepting Applications For The 2016 Workshop On Political Economy

Remembering Ramon Myers: One of Recent Decades’ Most Influential Scholars of US-Chinese Relations

Iraq Through The Lens Of A Silas Palmer Fellow

Film Featuring Shots Of Ivan Pavlov, Scenes Of Leningrad Preserved

Newly Processed Collections Now Available At Hoover Archives

Hoover Institution Opens Burmese Subject Collection

Upcoming Exhibition

double exposure: Russia's secret police under the last tsars

A new exhibition, Double Exposure: Russia’s Secret Police under the Last Tsars, is based on one of the most extraordinary collections held in the Hoover Library & Archives: the records of the Paris branch of the Russian Imperial secret police, known as the Okhrana.

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Explore our past and future exhibits, the Hoover Tower, and the Stanford campus

Upcoming Events

Events

Featured Events

Oct.

Double Exposure Exhibition

October 29, 2015-March 12, 2016

Dec.

Winter Closure of Reading Rooms and Exhibit Pavilion

December 21, 2015-January 3, 2016

Hours and Directions

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