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.
Race and Conservatism
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Inside the Atomic Bomb
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A Summer in the Stacks
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Introducing Aeon
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![Historian Hew Strachan in conversation with Hoover staff members. Strachan delivered the keynote address for the 2017 "Hunger Draws the Map" conference.](https://swap.stanford.edu/was/20170911010949im_/http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/styles/page_main/public/news/hew_strachan.png?itok=dPx3axPA "Historian Hew Strachan in conversation with Hoover staff members. Strachan delivered the keynote address for the 2017 "Hunger Draws the Map" conference.")
Bombs Over Bikini
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Churchill in Cuba
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The Year in Review
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Firing Line at Fifty
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Students in the Archives
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The Lion of Verdun
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Russia on the Radio
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Current Exhibition
Our new exhibition,Weapon on the Wall: American Posters of World War I marks America’s entry into the First World War by exploring one of the most powerful tools the country used to persuade its public to support and sustain the war effort: the poster.
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