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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives holds more than 6,000 archival collections that document war, revolution, and peace that shaped our world in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our archival collections related to Popular Culture.

Archival Collections

Buckley, William F. Jr. papers: William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), American author, editor, and political commentator, was best-known as host of the television show Firing Line and founder of conservative editorial magazine "National Review". His collection includes mixed materials such as a typewriter, photographs, film reels, a DVD, and a hard drive of Buckley Jr.'s home videos. 

Center for the Study of Popular Culture records, 1988-2003: Various materials related to conservatism and the mass media. This collection consists mostly of the papers of David Horowitz, creator and founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. 

Frumkin, Vladimir papers, 1968-1994: Vladimir Frumkin was a musician and musicologist born in the USSR in 1929. Frumkin later immigrated to the United States in 1974 and taught Russian at Oberlin College. Much of the Frumkin papers revolve around Bulat Okudzhava, a Soviet-era poet-singer who became one of Frumkin's interests. Other material pertaining to cultural dissidents in the USSR can also be found in this collection. 

Greene, Felix films, 1965-1976: Felix Green (1909-1985) was a 20th century British journalist and documentary filmmaker affiliated with the British Broadcasting Corporation and San Francisco Chronicle. Greene's work centered on subjects related to East Asia, Vietnam and the Vietnam war, and China. 

Gibson Fuller, Kenneth collection, 1960-1994: Kenneth Gibson Fuller collected ephemera and other archival materials related to the New Left and other countercultural movements in the San Francisco Bay Area, mostly between 1965 and 1970. Much of the collection focuses on activities at an around Berkeley, with some material from surrounding areas such as Stanford University, San Jose, and San Francisco. Materials concerning radical activism in other parts of the United States can also be found in this collection. 

New Left collection, 1923-2004: The New Left collection focuses on political and social movements between 1923 and 2004 that pushed for radical political and social change. The movements featured in this collection include, but are not limited to, the movement against the Vietnam war, the civil rights movement, and the women's liberation movement. 

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