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The Hoover Institution was founded on the idea that historical study is the indispensable foundation for the study of war, peace and revolution, as well as for the preservation of a free society: that is why it was, from the outset, an institution with an archive of historical manuscripts and publications.  However, historians in the United States have increasingly recoiled from addressing contemporary issues, while policymakers are rarely trained as historians.

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Niall Ferguson’s Networld

In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to explore the history of social networks. From the Reformation and 17th century witch-hunting, through the American Revolution and to the nightmare visions of Orwell’s 1984, Ferguson explores the intersection of social media, technology and the spread of cultural movements. Reviewing classic experiments and cutting-edge research, Ferguson demonstrates how human behavior, disruptive technology and profit can energize ideas and communication, ultimately changing the world.
 

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The Hoover Institution History Working Paper Series Allows Authors To Distribute Research For Discussion And Comment Among Other Researchers. Working Papers Reflect The Views Of The Author And Not The Views Of The Hoover Institution.

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The Hoover Applied History Working Group holds a seminar series on consequential and timely subjects and conducts interviews with leading historians.

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Sir Niall Ferguson

Milbank Family Senior Fellow

Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times bestseller and also adapted for television by PBS as Niall Ferguson’s Networld. In 2020 he joined Bloomberg Opinion as a columnist. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle LLC, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of Ualá, a Latin American financial technology company, and a trustee of the New York Historical Society, the London-based Centre for Policy Studies, and the newly founded University of Austin. His latest book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, was published in 2021 by Penguin and was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize.

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Joseph Ledford

Hoover Fellow

Joseph Ledford is a Hoover Fellow and the Assistant Director of the Hoover History Lab at the Hoover Institution, where he also serves as the Vice Chair of the Applied History Working Group. A historian of US foreign relations, his research and writing focus on the exercise of American power in the world, with a particular emphasis on the Western Hemisphere. He’s also concerned with the role of the presidency and the domestic politics of foreign policy, broadly construed. Other interests include the uses and abuses of history in policy-making. Ledford is presently finalizing the manuscript of a new comprehensive history of the Iran-Contra affair. The book will examine the scandal from its origins in the politics of the 1970s through its resolution in the mid-1990s. He is also conducting research for another book project that will explore the misuses and abuses of history in the making of American foreign policy. In addition to his historical research, he frequently provides analysis and commentary on US foreign policy and current topics in American politics for popular and policy outlets.  Ledford received his PhD in history from the University of California–Berkeley. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, he was an America in the World Consortium (AWC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an AWC Predoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.

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