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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:
"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 Rare Collections on Eastern European Guerrilla Movements During the Second World War
Two collections documenting partisan and guerrilla activity in Eastern Europe during the final…
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Our collections contain rare and unique library materials and archives that include posters, photographs, texts, sound recordings, moving images, and art and memorabilia.
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Featured Events
September 9, 2025 to February 8, 2026 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PT
Eastern Europe And Beyond: Photographic Albums Revealed
July 13, 2025 9:00 AMJST
Traversing The Socio-Economic Frontiers Of The Empire Of Japan And The Pacific World
November 4, 2025
Book Talk: "The Man Who Invented Conservatism" by Daniel Flynn
February 13, 2025
Fragmented Visions: Civil War China In Lost Films By American Jesuit Missionaries, 1947–1948
March 4, 2025
Archives Uncovered: Revealing The Third Reich And The Inner Lives Of Extremists
June 3, 2025
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life Of Xi Zhongxun, Father Of Xi Jinping
November 7, 2024 4:30 PMPT
Documenting Communism: The Hoover Project To Microfilm And Publish The Soviet Archives
December 10, 2024
Gallery Talk: Mounting Flat Paper Objects For Display By Laurent Cruveillier
April 22, 2025
Journey Through Hoover’s Past And Present: The Origin And Operations Of The Library & Archives
September 10, 2024 12:00 PMPT
