Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Research library in Stanford, United States.
The Hoover Institution Library and Archives is a research library on the campus of Stanford University in California, focused on political, economic, and social changes of the 20th century. The holdings include books, archival collections, photographs, and personal papers open to both researchers and the general public.
Herbert Hoover founded the institution in 1919, shortly after the end of World War I, to gather documents on war, revolution, and peace. Over the following decades, the collection grew through donations and acquisitions from around the world.
The institution regularly presents exhibitions with rare documents, photographs, and personal papers tied to wars, revolutions, and political upheavals of the 20th century. Visitors can see original objects that belonged to people who lived through those events firsthand.
The reading room is located in Hoover Tower on the Stanford campus and is open to the public, though access to some archival materials requires advance registration. Visiting on a weekday and arriving early in the day makes it easier to find your way through the collections.
The collection holds an extensive body of materials on Russian emigration after 1917, including diaries, letters, and newspapers from people who fled after the collapse of the Russian Empire. Equally rare are the holdings covering people who moved from southern China to Hong Kong and Macau during periods of political upheaval.
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