Defining Moments: The First One Hundred Years of the Hoover Institution

A century ago, amid the devastation of World War I, Herbert Hoover established a collection of library and archival materials at Stanford University devoted to the causes and consequences of war. Founded as the Hoover War Collection in 1919, the institution has evolved into one of the world's premier research centers devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and international affairs.

Defining Moments charts the origins and growth of what is today the Hoover Institution over th...