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Newly Cataloged Library Materials Summer 2025

Illustrations detailing How to Defeat the Enemy; background on the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963; poems from a Soviet perspective; and a Japanese -language transcription of a Romanian POW's diary from World War I are among the newly cataloged items from our collections. Reserve a seat in the Reading Room to view them. 

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Hoover Hosts Annual Summer Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan

The annual Hoover Institution Workshop on Modern China and Taiwan took place from July 28–August 1, 2025. The workshop featured experts who explored the Hoover Library & Archives’ historic holdings on China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

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Hoover Preserves Rare, Reformatted Footage Of The First Atomic Bombings

Now available through the Library & Archives' Digital Collections portal in higher resolution, this film serves as both vital scientific evidence and a profound visual testimony on the 80th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. 

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Hoover Makes Available The Newly Processed Papers Of Nancy’s Reagan’s White House Astrologer

The departure and landing times of Air Force One, the appropriate days for debates, and favorable times for summits with Gorbachev. Move over, Simon Says, and make way for what Joan Says. Explore how an astrologer's direction steered presidential travel, public appearances, and meetings. 

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Hoover Acquires Sándor Kopácsi Papers

Containing personal writings, correspondence, interviews, reports, and photographs, this collection is an essential resource for studying Hungary’s political history, including the 1956 revolution and its aftermath.

More Historic Materials on Contemporary Taiwan Come to Hoover

Two new collections provide valuable insights into the history of Taiwan from the 1970s to the 2010s.