If you would like to access the collections in our reading room, please register for access through Aeon. For more details, please see our web page Plan a Research Visit. Reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Researchers must select materials and reserve a seat at least 7 calendar days in advance for the Stanford campus reading room and L&A in DC.
This guide provides in-depth information on Hoover Library & Archives’ online resources and how to use them to search for materials.
Research guides offer thematic entry points to our collections. They are created by librarians and archivists and compile resources relevant for specific topics, thematic and disciplinary fields, and academic courses. A typical research guide contains a brief overview over our materials on a given subject or theme, links to finding aids to select archival collections, library items, video and photo resources, and recommendations on search strategies. We distinguish two types of research guides: subject/topic guides and course guides.
The Hoover Institution Stories, or HISTORIES, emerge from the collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives and the fellows, staff, and researchers who study them. They are an assortment of digital experiences intended to spark curiosity in some of the most important material on war, revolution, and peace of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These stories bring to light a vast array of topics in new and readily accessible ways to encourage the study and discoveries that can happen in repositories such as Hoover.
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
(by reservation)
Exhibitions & Observation Deck
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
We are closed for major holidays, Stanford home football games, and campus winter closure.