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The collections cover peace movements in the United States and Europe during World War I and the interwar period. Among them are the papers of pacifist Alice Park and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Alfred Fried. The library holds many rare pamphlets issued by peace organizations. Other archival collections concern disarmament and peace movements in the Vietnam War era.
Discover how the Hoover Institution Library & Archives became a world-renown destination for the study of Peace. Part of our HISTORIES series Voices from the Archives.
US educator; director, foreign service training, American Friends Service Committee, 1943–46
Unofficial adviser to President Woodrow Wilson
Miscellaneous materials related to pacifist groups in the United States and Germany
US nonprofit organization that promoted peace
US nondenominational pacifist organization
East German artist and peace activist
US pacifist and feminist; member, Henry Ford Peace Ship expedition, 1915
Miscellaneous materials
Austrian pacifist; winner, Nobel Peace Prize, 1911
US educator and pacifist; president, Stanford University, 1891 –1913
Hungarian pacifist and feminist
Library materials and archival collections
“I Ring Only For Peace” by Elena Danielson via Hoover Digest
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.
A documentary exhibit on Nobel Prize winners based on the holdings of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Archives and History Office, and the Stanford University Archives.
