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Rare Russo-Dutch Red Cross Field Hospital Photo Album Comes to Hoover
New archival album reveals the untold story of a Russo-Dutch Red Cross field hospital on the brutal front lines of the Russo-Japanese War.
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Hoover Acquires the John S. Widdicombe Papers
A compelling archive detailing early postwar Poland from the perspective of an American UN worker shortly before the descent of the Iron Curtain.
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Hoover Acquires Rare Photograph Archive of a U.S. Army Commander’s Controversial 1944 Tour of Saipan and the Marshall Islands
This unique window into Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson's 1944 tour of Saipan during the Pacific War illuminates the consequences of battle and the Army-Marine rivalry that threatened to undermine the Allied victory.
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The Impossible Choice
Five years after the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, a general returns to war, and three voices in the Hoover archive explain what that kind of decision actually costs.
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Hoover Hosts Annual Summer Workshop On Modern China And Taiwan
Held at the Hoover Institution on August 3–7, 2026, this year's workshop featured five speakers, explored Hoover’s unique archival collections, and evaluated how these primary source materials help to reshape our understanding of modern China and post-1949 Taiwan.
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Hoover Acquires the Papers of Chiang Chung-ling, a Key Figure of the Nationalization of Armed Forces and Military Reform in Taiwan
The newly acquired Chiang Chung-ling papers document the career of a key military figure who helped transform Taiwan's armed forces from instruments of authoritarian rule into defenders of democratic governance during the island-state's transition in the 1990s.
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