Commonwealth Club of California records: Minutes, correspondence, reports, studies, speech transcripts, membership and financial records, printed matter, and sound and videotape recordings, relating to international, national, state and local public issues.
Firing Line broadcast records: Videotape film and transcripts of television series hosted by William F. Buckley and produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, relating to conservative thought, especially in the United States, and to American foreign and domestic policy. Includes background research file, sound recordings, and still photographs.
The Hoover Institution, in collaboration with many global partners, has preserved a comprehensive archive of newspapers published by Japanese and Nikkei communities outside of Japan.
Journalism Poster Collection: Posters relating to journalism from various geographic regions.
Overseas Weekly Photographs: Negatives and contact sheets, depicting scenes from the Vietnam War and American servicemen in Vietnam. Overseas Weekly was a military tabloid at once beloved by troops and reviled by the Pentagon for its controversial content. Featured in the 2019 Hoover Institution exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam
The Hoover Institution, in collaboration with many global partners, has preserved a comprehensive archive of newspapers published by Russian communities outside of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. To date, 154 titles, comprising 681,886 pages, have been made available in the online collection.
Past Exhibition:
Rarely seen photographs took center stage for the Hoover Library & Archives’ 2018 exhibition We Shot the War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam. Exploring the interrelationships between art, journalism, and politics, the exhibition featured photographs submitted to the Overseas Weekly’s Pacific edition–a military tabloid at once beloved by troops and reviled by the Pentagon for its controversial content.
HISTORIES:
See "The Media" section: The overwhelming public fascination with the Watergate scandal owes much to the work of persistent pioneering journalists as well as the ubiquity of home televisions by the 1970s.
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