 Greetings to all of the friends and supporters of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
This Memorial Day, as we do every year, we honor United States military personnel who have lost their lives in defense of our nation. We thank them for their service and for making the ultimate sacrifice so we may remain free.
We have news of two significant collections of American veterans below: Admiral James Stockdale, who spent over seven years as a POW in North Vietnam; and Richard Hubert, who worked on the propaganda campaign against the Japanese Empire during WWII. We also celebrate a number of related activities around our Bread + Medicine exhibit, including teaching, scholarship, and our newest publication, Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 (Hoover Institution Press), which is the capstone marking the completion of the project.
Wishing good health to you and yours.
-Eric Wakin, Director
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[“Memorial Day, May 30, 1917. In memory of American soldiers of the wars of ... Honor the brave.” US 5365]
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Richard S. R. Hubert
The papers of Richard Samuel Rene Hubert (1901–82) document the US anti-Japanese propaganda campaign that targeted both Japanese soldiers and civilians in Japan in the last days of World War II. The Hubert papers contain many examples of leaflets that were printed by the US Office of War Information in Saipan and dropped by B-29 over the Japanese skies, as well as photographs and statistical details about the campaign.
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Kamil Bena
Kamil Bena was a Czech exile and an active participant in many Czech émigré organizations. He fled Czechoslovakia after the Communist takeover in 1948, working in refugee camps in Germany for several years until joining Radio Free Europe in 1952. The Bena papers reflect the activities of political, cultural and youth organizations, and contain significant correspondence with other Czech exiles and Czech National Social Party leadership.
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James B. Stockdale
Researchers may now read the letters of James B. Stockdale, who was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam from 1965–73, in tandem with those of his wife Sybil Bailey Stockdale, and gain rare insight into POW/MIA issues and to conditions at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison, where Stockdale was held during the Vietnam War. Stockdale was a US Navy vice admiral and aviator, Stanford graduate, and Hoover Institution Fellow
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Reconnecting with Taiwan
Library & Archives Director Eric Wakin and Curator of Modern China and Taiwan Hsiao-ting Lin recently visited Taiwan at the invitation of several institutions and organizations in the island nation. Many hosts in Taiwan expressed their strong intention to deepen scholarly exchanges and cooperation with the Library & Archives.
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“Window on a Revolution”
In the Spring edition of the Hoover Digest, Hoover Fellow Matthew K. Lowenstein offers an insider’s view into the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through the personal papers of Li Rui. Li (1917–2019) was a senior cadre in the CCP who held a number of roles, including serving as the personal secretary to Chairman Mao Zedong, but throughout his life he was also a strong critic of the Communist Party, and was jailed and exiled internally for his views.
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Bread + Medicine, the Book
Available for preorder! Bread + Medicine: American Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, 1921–1923 (Hoover Institution Press), by Bertrand Patenaude and Joan Nabseth Stevenson, will be available June 1. Click here to place your order. The publication, a companion to the exhibition, is richly illustrated with photographs, posters, and documents from the Library & Archives, and focuses on the lesser-known story of the medical dimension of the American relief mission, which included a large-scale vaccination drive and other measures to combat famine-related infectious disease.
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What's New in the Library
This month’s list of newly cataloged items contains World War I and World War II-era information on topics such as welfare, population statistics, travel routes and geography, Soviet aircraft characteristics, offensive battle and campaign information, and details from the Thalerhof concentration camp.
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Dynamic Designs: Transforming Posters at Hoover
A new Hoover Institution Library & Archives exhibition explores posters that have been used as Hoover Digest covers and also the potential that posters have to be transformed.
June 28, 2023 – Dec. 20, 2023 | Open daily - 10 am - 4 pm
Lou Henry Hoover Gallery, Hoover Tower, Stanford University
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Featuring Our Collections
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