Hoover Institution history

He served as an analyst and observer for the American Relief Administration, which supplied millions of Russians with food during the famine of the early 1920s.

The Hoover Institution began publishing its bibliographical series in 1926, beginning with A Catalogue of Paris Peace Conference Delegation Propaganda in the Hoover War Library.

Other notable campus locations are the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (housing the university museum) and its adjacent sculpture garden, containing works by Auguste Rodin, and Hanna House (1937), designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Great Depression, however, made fund-raising nearly impossible; it was not until 1938 that Stanford decided $600,000 was sufficient for the building.

In the spring of 1939, Hoover, anticipating another war, sent then-library director Ralph Lutz (who had collected initial materials for the Library almost two decades earlier) to Europe, with instructions to collect materials from every totalitarian state.

In 1940, the Stanford Listening Post was established in the archives of the Library to record and study radio broadcasts from the Far East.

Azim Premji, in full Azim Hasham Premji, (born July 24, 1945, Bombay [now Mumbai], India), Indian business entrepreneur who served as chairman of Wipro Limited, guiding the company through four decades of diversification and growth to emerge as a world leader in the software industry.

Adjacent to the campus is the Stanford Research Park (1951), one of the world’s principal locations for the development of electronics and computer technology.

The year 1959 was the most significant in the history of the Hoover Institution since its founding.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), established in 1962, is one of the world’s premier laboratories for research in particle physics.

The last directorial appointment to be approved by Herbert Hoover, whom Campbell worked directly with until Hoover's death in 1964.

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.

Current senior fellow Michael J. Boskin served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1989 93).

(Source: Larry Gordon, New Director Is Named for Hoover Institution, LA Times, May 15, 1990.)

Uncommon Knowledge first aired in February 1997 on PBS member station KTEH with guests Martin Anderson and John Ellwood discussing the budget deficit.

At the time of her appointment to the Hoover Institution, Rice was an award-winning Stanford political science professor in the process of moving to her position as Stanford University's provost, a post she held until 1999.

In 2001 he established the nonprofit Azim Premji Foundation, through which he aimed to improve the quality of elementary education in rural regions throughout India.

Market and policy antecedents and repercussions of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Recession began long before and lasted long after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in September 2008.

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic 2011 was awarded jointly to Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims "for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy."

In 2012 his rule became a Hoover Press book entitled The Taylor Rule and the Transformation of Monetary Policy.

The Johnson Center officially opened its doors on November 4, 2013.

Thomas W. Gilligan assumed the role of the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution in September of 2015.

The opening day of Hoover's 2017 Fall Retreat featured a milestone event in Hoover's nearly hundred-year history: the dedication of the David and Joan Traitel Building.

A series of presentations and discussions held during the fall of 2018 delved into the causes, but also examined the actions and interventions taken during the crisis and the recession, and to draw policy lessons for the future.

On April 22, 2019 the Hoover Institution celebrates 100 years.