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The collections on Finland contain significant materials on modern Finnish history; several relate to the Russo-Finnish War of 1939–40, especially US fund-raising efforts to provide civilian relief to Finland. Others pertain to Finnish foreign policy and domestic politics in the twentieth century.
"As the Clever Hopes Expired"
by Nicholas Siekierski via Hoover Digest
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Images of some of the baseball artifacts found in the archives, ranging from photographs of early baseball games at Stanford University through documents showing the various ways that baseball has surfaced in wartime, humanitarian relief activities in Finland, and politics throughout the twentieth century.
STANFORD—Next year marks the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. “Shattered Peace,” an exhibition by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, chronicles the events leading up to the war by drawing on their rich holdings.
