Hoover Institution

{{Further|Hoover Institution Library and Archives}}

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In June 1919, Herbert Hoover, then a wealthy engineer who was one of Stanford University's first graduates, sent a telegram offering Stanford president Ray Lyman Wilbur $50,000 in order to assist the collection of primary materials related to World War I, a project that became known as the Hoover War Collection. Assisted primarily by gifts from private donors, the Hoover War Collection flourished during its early years. In 1922, the collection became known as the Hoover War Library, now known as the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and includes a variety of rare and unpublished material, including the files of the Okhrana and a plurality of government documents produced during the war.{{cite journal |last=Duignan |first=Peter |date=2001 |title=The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Part 1: Origin and Growth |journal=Library History |volume=17 |pages=3–20 |doi=10.1179/lib.2001.17.1.3 |s2cid=144635878}}{{Cite web |title=Hoover Timeline |url=https://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en |archive-date=June 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622163919/https://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |url-status=live }} It was housed originally in the Stanford Library, separate from the general stacks. In his memoirs, Hoover wrote:

I did a vast amount of reading, mostly on previous wars, revolutions, and peace-makings of Europe and especially the political and economic aftermaths. At one time I set up some research at London, Paris, and Berlin into previous famines in Europe to see if there had developed any ideas on handling relief and pestilence. ... I was shortly convinced that gigantic famine would follow the present war. The steady degeneration of agriculture was obvious. ... I read in one of Andrew D. White's writings that most of the fugitive literature of comment during the French Revolution was lost to history because no one set any value on it at the time, and that without such material it became very difficult or impossible to reconstruct the real scene. Therein lay the origins of the Library on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.{{Cite book |last=Hoover |first=Herbert |url=https://hoover.archives.gov/sites/default/files/research/ebooks/b1v1_full.pdf |title=The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920 |publisher=Macmillan |year=1951 |location=New York |pages=184–85 |access-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531091223/https://hoover.archives.gov/sites/default/files/research/ebooks/b1v1_full.pdf |url-status=live }}

{{Further|Hoover Tower}}

File:160919-D-SK590-091 (29170239914).jpg Ash Carter speaks about defense innovation at the institution in Washington, D.C., in September 2016]]

By 1926, the Hoover War Library was the largest library in the world devoted to World War I, including 1.4 million items and too large to house in the Stanford University Library, so the university allocated $600,000 for the construction of the Hoover Tower, which was designed to be its permanent home independent of the Stanford Library system. The 285-foot tall tower was completed in 1941 on date of the university's golden jubilee.{{cite web |url= http://0055d26.netsolhost.com/hila/history.htm |title= Hoover Institution Library and Archives: Historical Background |website= Hoover Institution |access-date= November 26, 2008 |archive-date= July 19, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080719080229/http://0055d26.netsolhost.com/hila/history.htm |url-status= live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/tower_power_hoover_institution_celebrates_100_years_of_ideas_defining_a_free_society-2019-stanford |title=Make A Gift |website=myScience |date=January 11, 2019 |access-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618123401/https://www.myscience.org/news/wire/tower_power_hoover_institution_celebrates_100_years_of_ideas_defining_a_free_society-2019-stanford |url-status=live }} The tower has since been a well-recognized part of the Stanford campus.{{cite web |url=https://stanfordpolitics.org/2019/05/11/100-years-of-hoover-a-history-of-stanfords-decades-long-debate-over-the-hoover-institution/ |title=100 Years of Hoover: A History of Stanford's Decades-Long Debate over the Hoover Institution |last=Bonafont |first=Roxy |date=May 11, 2019 |website=Stanford Political Journal |access-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715205433/https://stanfordpolitics.org/2019/05/11/100-years-of-hoover-a-history-of-stanfords-decades-long-debate-over-the-hoover-institution/ |url-status=live }}

In 1956, former President Hoover, in conjunction with the Institution and Library, began a major fundraising campaign that transitioned the organization to its current form as a research institution as well as archive.

In 1957, the Hoover Institution and Library was renamed the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, its current name.{{cite web |url= http://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |title= Hoover Institution – Hoover Institution Timeline |work= hoover.org |access-date= March 9, 2017 |archive-date= March 10, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170310193223/http://www.hoover.org/about/timeline |url-status= live }} In 1959, Stanford's Board of Trustees officially established the Hoover Institution as "an independent institution within the frame of Stanford University".

In 1960, W. Glenn Campbell was appointed director and substantial budget increases soon resulted in corresponding increases in acquisitions and related research projects. In particular, the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably. Despite student unrest during the 1960s, the institution continued to develop closer relations with Stanford University.{{cite journal |last=Duignan |first=Peter |date=2001 |title=The Library of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Part 2: The Campbell Years |journal=Library History |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=107–118 |doi=10.1179/lib.2001.17.2.107 |s2cid=144451652}}

In 1975, Ronald Reagan, who was Governor of California at that time, was designated as Hoover's first honorary fellow. He donated his gubernatorial papers to the Hoover library.{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0327/032756.html |title=Hoover Institution; Leaning to the right |last=McBride |first=Stewart |date=March 27, 1980 |website=The Christian Science Monitor |access-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233157/https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0327/032756.html |url-status=live }} During that time the Hoover Institution had a general budget of $3.5 million a year. In 1976, one third of Stanford University's book holdings were housed at the Hoover library. At that time, it was the largest private archive collection in the United States.

For his presidential campaign in 1980, Reagan engaged at least thirteen Hoover scholars to assist the campaign in multiple capacities.{{cite web |last=Fitzgerald |first=Patrick |date=February 1, 2008 |title=At Stanford, Hoover Debate Still Rages |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-stanford-hoover-debate-still-rages/ |access-date=July 17, 2019 |website=CBS News |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717121152/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-stanford-hoover-debate-still-rages/ |url-status=live }} After Reagan won the election, more than thirty current or former Hoover Institution fellows worked for the Reagan administration in 1981.

In 1989, Campbell retired as director of Hoover and replaced by John Raisian, a change that was considered the end of an era.{{cite web |date=April 2002 |title=The Man Behind the Institution |url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-man-behind-the-institution |access-date=July 18, 2019 |website=Stanford Magazine |archive-date=July 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190709173328/https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-man-behind-the-institution |url-status=live }} Raisan served as director until 2015, and was succeeded by Thomas W. Gilligan.{{cite web |date=January 28, 2020 |title=Condoleezza Rice to lead Stanford's Hoover Institution |url=https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/28/condoleezza-rice-lead-stanfords-hoover-institution/ |access-date=February 2, 2020 |website=Stanford News |archive-date=March 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312174712/https://news.stanford.edu/2020/01/28/condoleezza-rice-lead-stanfords-hoover-institution/ |url-status=live }}

File:Secretary Tillerson Participates in a Q&A Session at Stanford University (24883290627).jpg Condoleezza Rice and Rex Tillerson during a Hoover forum in January 2018]]

In 2001, Hoover Senior fellow Condoleezza Rice joined the George W. Bush administration, serving as National Security Advisor from 2001 to 2005 and as Secretary of State from 2005 to 2009. In 2006, President George W. Bush awarded the National Humanities Medal to the Hoover Institution.{{Cite web |title=President Bush Awards the 2006 National Humanities Medals |url=https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2006-11-08 |access-date=June 20, 2022 |website=The National Endowment for the Humanities |language=en |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233159/https://www.neh.gov/news/press-release/2006-11-08 |url-status=live }}

In August 2017, the David and Joan Traitel Building was inaugurated. The ground floor is a conference facility with a 400-seat auditorium and the top floor houses the Hoover Institution's headquarters.{{cite news|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/19/hoover-opens-new-david-joan-traitel-building/|title=Hoover opens new David and Joan Traitel Building|last=Martinovich|first=Milenko|date=October 19, 2017|work=Stanford News|access-date=June 20, 2022|archive-date=June 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620232144/https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/19/hoover-opens-new-david-joan-traitel-building/|url-status=live}}

At any given time, as of 2017, the Hoover Institution has as many as 200 resident scholars known as fellows. They are an interdisciplinary group studying political science, education, economics, foreign policy, energy, history, law, national security, health and politics. Some have joint appointments as lecturers on the Stanford faculty.{{cite news|url=https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/20/hoover-scholars-tackle-urgent-issues/|title=Through research and education, Hoover scholars tackle some of the most urgent issues of our time|last=Martinovich|first=Milenko|date=October 20, 2017|work=Stanford News|access-date=June 20, 2022|archive-date=June 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630165534/https://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/20/hoover-scholars-tackle-urgent-issues/|url-status=live}}

The first Trump administration maintained relations with the institution during his presidency, and several Hoover employees became senior advisors or were hired for jobs in his administration, including Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, who was the Davies Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover from 2013 to 2016, where he studied leadership, national security, strategy, innovation, and the effective use of military force.See [https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/1055835/james-n-mattis/ "James N. Mattis" U.S. Department of Defense (2023)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618181519/https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/1055835/james-n-mattis/ |date=June 18, 2023 }}.

In March 2019, Mattis returned to his post at Hoover.See "Former Secretary Of Defense, General Jim Mattis, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Returns To The Hoover Institution At Stanford University" [https://www.hoover.org/press-releases/former-secretary-defense-general-jim-mattis-us-marine-corps-ret-returns-hoover online press release March 19, 2019] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618182811/https://www.hoover.org/press-releases/former-secretary-defense-general-jim-mattis-us-marine-corps-ret-returns-hoover |date=June 18, 2023 }}. Distinguished Visiting Fellow Kevin Hassett became the first chairman of Trump's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). The CEA chief principal economist, Josh Rauh, took leave from his Hoover Institution fellowship. After the third CEA chairman Tyler Goodspeed resigned in 2021, he went to Hoover.See "Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Holds Meetings in Washington, DC, Featuring Senior Trump Administration Officials" News from the Hoover Institution February 24, 2020 [https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-institution-board-overseers-holds-meetings-washington-dc-featuring-senior-trump online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618181521/https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-institution-board-overseers-holds-meetings-washington-dc-featuring-senior-trump |date=June 18, 2023 }}

In February 2020, the Hoover board of trustees brought in senior Trump economic officials for off-the-record forecasts. According to The New York Times, "The president’s aides appeared to be giving wealthy party donors an early warning of a potentially impactful contagion at a time when Mr. Trump was publicly insisting that the threat was nonexistent." The board members spread the bad news and the stock market had a selloff.{{Cite news|last1=Kelly|first1=Kate|last2=Mazzetti|first2=Mark|date=2020-10-14|title=As Virus Spread Early On, Reports of Trump Administration Briefings Fueled Sell-Off|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-investors.html|access-date=2020-10-15|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=October 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015023337/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-investors.html|url-status=live}}

In 2020, Condoleezza Rice succeeded Thomas W. Gilligan as director.

In November 2020, Scott Atlas, a Hoover fellow, was known for opposing public health measures as a major Trump advisor during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was condemned by a Stanford University faculty vote in November 2020.{{Cite web |date=November 20, 2020 |title=Stanford faculty votes to condemn Scott Atlas, White House coronavirus adviser and Hoover Institution fellow |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/20/stanford-faculty-votes-to-condemn-scott-atlas-white-house-coronavirus-adviser-and-hoover-institution-fellow |access-date=June 20, 2022 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233205/https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/20/stanford-faculty-votes-to-condemn-scott-atlas-white-house-coronavirus-adviser-and-hoover-institution-fellow/ |url-status=live }}

In January 2021, during Stanford University faculty senate discussions on closer collaboration between the university and the Institution in 2021, Rice "addressed campus criticism that the Hoover Institution is a partisan think tank that primarily supports conservative administrations and policy positions" by sharing "statistics that show Hoover fellows contribute financially to both political parties on an equal basis", according to the university's newsletter.{{Cite web |last=University |first=Stanford |date=January 29, 2021 |title=Stanford's relationship to the Hoover Institution highlights Faculty Senate discussion |url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/01/29/stanfords-relationship-hoover-institution-highlights-faculty-senate-discussion/ |access-date=June 19, 2022 |website=Stanford Report |language=en |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233201/https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2021/01/stanfords-relationship-hoover-institution-highlights-faculty-senate-discussion |url-status=live }}

According to DeSmog, the Hoover Institution accepts scientific consensus on climate change, but has long opposed climate action.{{cite web |url=https://www.desmog.com/hoover-institution/|title=Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace |publisher=DeSmog |accessdate=September 22, 2024 }} Some Hoover fellows downplay climate change.

The Institution has libraries which include materials from both World War I and World War II, including the collection of documents of President Herbert Hoover, which he began to collect at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.{{cite web |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Stanford-s-secrets-Decades-of-surprises-11049494.php |title=Stanford's secrets: Decades of surprises stashed in Hoover Tower |last=Niekerken |first=Bill van |date=April 4, 2017 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618123404/https://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/Stanford-s-secrets-Decades-of-surprises-11049494.php |url-status=live }} Thousands of Persian books, official documents, letters, multimedia pieces and other materials on Iran's history, politics and culture can also be found at the Stanford University library and the Hoover Institution library.{{cite web |url=https://en.radiofarda.com/a/Stanford-Libraries-Hoover-Institution-archival-materials-on-Iran/28480566.html |title=Spotlight On Iran |date=May 11, 2017 |website=Radio Farda |access-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618123400/https://en.radiofarda.com/a/Stanford-Libraries-Hoover-Institution-archival-materials-on-Iran/28480566.html |url-status=live }}

{{Wide image|Palo Alto WV banner.jpg|880px|View of the Hoover Institution's headquarters, including the Hoover Tower, among the Stanford University campus}}

{{Further|Policy Review}}

The Hoover Institution's in-house publisher, Hoover Institution Press, produces publications on public policy topics, including the quarterly periodicals Hoover Digest, Education Next, China Leadership Monitor, and Defining Ideas. The Hoover Institution Press previously published the bimonthly periodical Policy Review, which it acquired from The Heritage Foundation in 2001.{{cite web |title=Policy Review Web Archive |url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207125427/http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review |url-status=live }} Policy Review ceased publication with its February–March 2013 issue.

The Hoover Institution Press also publishes books and essays by Hoover Institution fellows and other Hoover-affiliated scholars.{{Cite web |title=Hoover Institution Press |url=https://www.hoover.org/publications/hooverpress |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Hoover Institution Press {{!}} Mineral-X |url=https://mineralx.stanford.edu/publications/hoover-institution-press |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=mineralx.stanford.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Books Published by Hoover Institution Press an Imprint of Hoover Institution Press |url=https://aalbc.com/imprint/Hoover+Institution+Press |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Hoover Institution Press - American Libraries Buyers Guide |url=https://americanlibrariesbuyersguide.com/Listing/Company/1104463 |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=americanlibrariesbuyersguide.com}}{{Cite web |title=Hoover Institution |url=https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/hoover-institution/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=Philanthropy Roundtable |language=en-US}}

The Hoover Institution receives nearly half of its funding from private gifts, primarily from individual contributions, and the other half from its endowment.{{cite web |title=Hoover Institution 2010 Report |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/52142814/Hoover-Institution-2010-Report |access-date=June 25, 2011 |website=Hoover Institution |page=39 |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112044807/http://www.scribd.com/doc/52142814/Hoover-Institution-2010-Report |url-status=live }}

Funders of the organization include the Taube Family Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Howard Charitable Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Walton Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the William E. Simon Foundation.{{cite news |last=Adeniji |first=Ade |date=April 21, 2015 |title=How the Hoover Institution Vacuums Up Big Conservative Bucks |work=Inside Philanthropy |url=http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/4/21/how-the-hoover-institution-vacuums-up-big-conservative-bucks.html |access-date=February 5, 2016 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306122502/http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/4/21/how-the-hoover-institution-vacuums-up-big-conservative-bucks.html |url-status=live }}

Funding sources and expenditures, FY 2022{{cite web|title=Financial Review 2022|url=https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/Hoover_2022_Annual_Report_Final_Web_v5.pdf|access-date=Feb 5, 2023|website=Hoover Institution|archive-date=February 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205200024/https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/2023-01/Hoover_2022_Annual_Report_Final_Web_v5.pdf|url-status=live}}

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In May 2018, the Hoover Institution's website listed 198 fellows. Fellowship appointments do not require the approval of Stanford tenure committees.{{Cite book |last=Wooster |first=Martin Morse |title=How Great Philanthropists Failed and You Can Succeed at Protecting Your Legacy |publisher=Capital Research Center |year=2017 |isbn=978-1892934048 |location=USA |pages=201}}

Below is a list of directors and some of the more prominent fellows, former and current.

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• Ephraim D. Adams, 1920–25
• Ralph H. Lutz, 1925–44
• Harold H. Fisher, 1944–52
• C. Easton Rothwell, 1952–59{{cite news |url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2004/september1/obit-rothwell-91.html |title=Yacht club to host celebration of Virginia Rothwell |work=Stanford Report |date=September 1, 2004 |access-date=March 25, 2008 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• W. Glenn Campbell, 1960–89{{cite news |url=http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/november28/campbellobit-1128.html |title=Glenn Campbell, former Hoover director, dead at 77 |first=Lisa |last=Trei |work=Stanford Report |date=November 28, 2001 |access-date=March 25, 2008 |archive-date=January 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129134557/http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/november28/campbellobit-1128.html |url-status=live }}
• John Raisian, 1989–2015
• Thomas W. Gilligan, 2015–2020
• Condoleezza Rice, 2020–present

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• Friedrich Hayek, philosopher and Nobel laureate in economics (deceased)
• Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States (deceased)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate in literature (deceased)
• Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom{{cite web |title = Margaret Thatcher |website = Hoover Institution |year = 2010 |url = http://www.hoover.org/profiles/margaret-thatcher |access-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-date = October 21, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201021001040/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/margaret-thatcher |url-status = live }} (deceased)

• George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State{{cite web |title = Distinguished Fellow |website = Hoover Institution Stanford University |year = 2010 |url = http://www.hoover.org/fellows |access-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-date = January 10, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170110171819/http://www.hoover.org/fellows |url-status = live }} (deceased)

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• Fouad Ajami, political scientist, former director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University (deceased){{cite web |title = Senior Fellows |website = Hoover Institution Stanford University |year = 2011 |url = http://www.hoover.org/fellows |access-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-date = January 10, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170110171819/http://www.hoover.org/fellows |url-status = live }}
• Scott Atlas, health care policy scholar and physician, former professor and former Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University School of Medicine
• Richard V. Allen, former U.S. National Security Advisor (deceased)
• Martin Anderson, former advisor to Richard Nixon and author of The Federal Bulldozer (deceased)
• Robert Barro, economist, Harvard University
• Gary Becker, 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate and professor, University of Chicago (deceased)
• Joseph Berger, theoretical sociologist, Stanford University (deceased)
• Peter Berkowitz, political scientist, Stanford University
• Russell Berman, professor, German Studies and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
• Michael Boskin, chairman, Council of Economic Advisers in the George H. W. Bush administration
• David W. Brady, political scientist, Stanford University{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/david-brady |title=David Brady |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=October 26, 2016 |archive-date=October 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016101247/http://www.hoover.org/profiles/david-brady |url-status=live }}
• Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, political scientist, professor at New York University
• Elizabeth Cobbs, historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker
• John H. Cochrane, economist, Stanford Graduate School of Business
• William Damon, professor of education, Stanford University
• Larry Diamond, professor of international studies, Stanford University
• Frank Dikötter, chair and professor of humanities, University of Hong Kong
• Sidney Drell, theoretical physicist and arms control expert, Stanford University (deceased)
• Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
• John B. Dunlop, expert on Soviet and Russian politics
• Richard Epstein, legal scholar, New York University
• Martin Feldstein, senior fellow at the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University (deceased)
• Niall Ferguson, historian and professor, Harvard University
• Chester E. Finn Jr., education and public policy professor, Vanderbilt University
• Morris Fiorina, political science professor, Stanford University
• Milton Friedman, economics professor, University of Chicago, and 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate (deceased)
• Timothy Garton Ash, European history professor, University of Oxford, and columnist, The Guardian
• Jack Goldsmith, legal scholar, Harvard Law School
• Stephen Haber, economic historian and political scientist, Stanford University
• Robert Hall, economics professor, Stanford University
• Victor Davis Hanson, classics professor emeritus, California State University, Fresno
• Eric Hanushek, economist
• David R. Henderson, economist
• Caroline Hoxby, economist
• Bobby Ray Inman, retired admiral
• Shanto Iyengar, professor of political science, and director of the Political Communication Laboratory at Stanford University
• Ken Jowitt, historian
• Kenneth L. Judd, economist
• Daniel P. Kessler, scholar of health policy and health care finance
• Stephen D. Krasner, international relations professor
• Edward Lazear, economist (Deceased)
• Gary D. Libecap, Bren Professor of Corporate Environmental Policy and of Donald R. Bren School of Environmental Science
• Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist (deceased)
• Harvey Mansfield, political scientist
• Michael W. McConnell, legal scholar, former judge, professor at Stanford University
• Michael McFaul, political scientist, United States Ambassador to Russia
• H.R. McMaster, former National Security Advisor
• Thomas Metzger, sinologist
• James C. Miller III, economist
• Terry M. Moe, professor of political science at Stanford University
• Kevin M. Murphy, economist
• Norman Naimark, historian
• Douglass North, 1993 Nobel laureate in economics (deceased)
• Lee Ohanion, economist
• William J. Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Paul E. Peterson, scholar on education reform
• Alvin Rabushka, political scientist
• Raghuram Rajan, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School
• Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State
• Henry Rowen, economist (deceased)
• Thomas J. Sargent, 2011 Nobel laureate in economics, professor at New York University
• Robert Service, historian
• John Shoven, economist
• Abraham David Sofaer, scholar, former legal advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State
• Thomas Sowell, economist, author, columnist
• Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel laureate in economics
• Richard F. Staar, political scientist, historian (Deceased)
• Shelby Steele, author, columnist
• John B. Taylor, former U.S. Undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs
• Eugene Volokh, professor of law emeritus at UCLA School of Law (effective July 1, 2024) {{cite web |title = My Move to the Hoover Institution |website = Reason |year = 2023 |url = https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/my-move-to-the-hoover-institution/ |access-date = September 21, 2023 |archive-date = September 20, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230920181701/https://reason.com/volokh/2023/09/19/my-move-to-the-hoover-institution/ |url-status = live }}
• Barry R. Weingast, political scientist
• Bertram Wolfe, author, scholar, former communist, (deceased; 1896–1977)
• Amy Zegart, political scientist

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• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author, scholar and former politician
• Clint Bolick, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona
• Jennifer Burns, historian
• Lanhee Chen, political scientist, health policy expert, former policy director for Mitt Romney{{cite web |title = Research Fellows |url = http://www.hoover.org/fellows |website = Hoover Institution |access-date = September 20, 2010 |archive-date = August 2, 2010 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100802201039/http://www.hoover.org/fellows |url-status = live }}
• Robert Conquest, historian (deceased)
• David Davenport, former president of Pepperdine University
• Williamson Evers, education researcher
• Paul R. Gregory, Cullen Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston
• Alice Hill, former federal prosecutor, judge, special assistant to the president, and senior director for the National Security Council
• Charles Hill, lecturer in International Studies (Deceased)
• Tim Kane, economist
• Herbert S. Klein, historian
• Tod Lindberg, foreign policy expert
• Alice L. Miller, political scientist
• Shavit Matias, former deputy attorney general of Israel
• Abbas Milani, political scientist
• Henry I. Miller, physician
• Elena Pastorino, economist
• Russell Roberts, economist, author
• Kori Schake, foreign policy expert, author
• Kiron Skinner, associate professor of international relations and political science, author
• Peter Schweizer, author (former fellow)
• Antony C. Sutton, author of Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (3 vol), fellow from 1968 to 1973
• Bruce Thornton, American classicist
• Tunku Varadarajan, writer and journalist

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• John Abizaid, former commander of the U.S. Central Command{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/news/press-releases/29287 |title=Former U.S. Central Command Chief General John Abizaid Appointed Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=March 6, 2012 |archive-date=November 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111071129/http://www.hoover.org/news/press-releases/29287 |url-status=dead }} (former fellow)
• Spencer Abraham, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Energy (former fellow)
• Pedro Aspe, Mexican economist, former secretary of finance
• Michael R. Auslin, American writer, policy analyst, historian, and Asia expert
• Michael D. Bordo, Canadian economist, professor of economics at Rutgers University
• Charles Calomiris, financial policy expert, author, and professor at Columbia Business School
• Arye Carmon, Founding President and senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI)
• Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
• James O. Ellis, former commander, United States Strategic Command{{cite web |title = Distinguished Visiting Fellows |website = Hoover Institution Stanford University |year = 2014 |url = http://www.hoover.org/fellows |access-date = January 4, 2017 |archive-date = September 13, 2024 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240913233311/https://www.hoover.org/fellows |url-status = live }}
• James Goodby, author and former American diplomat
• Jim Hoagland, American journalist and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia
• Raymond Jeanloz, professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy
• Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the German newspaper Die Zeit
• Henry Kissinger, former United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (Deceased)
• James Mattis, former commander, U.S. Central Command and former Secretary of Defense
• Allan H. Meltzer, American economist (Deceased)
• Edwin Meese, former U.S. Attorney General
• David C. Mulford, former United States Ambassador to India, former Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse
• Joseph Nye, American political scientist, co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism
• Sam Nunn, former United States Senator from Georgia
• George Osborne, British Conservative Party politician, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton
• Andrew Roberts, British historian and journalist, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London
• Peter M. Robinson, American author, research fellow television host, former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan
• Gary Roughead, former Chief of Naval Operations
• Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense (deceased)
• Christopher Stubbs, an experimental physicist
• William Suter, former Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Kevin Warsh, former governor of the Federal Reserve System
• Pete Wilson, former Governor of California

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• Alexander Benard, American businessman, lawyer, and commentator on U.S. public policy
• Charles Blahous, U.S. public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare programs
• Robert J. Hodrick, U.S. economist specialized in International Finance
• Markos Kounalakis, Greek-American journalist, author, scholar, and the Second Gentleman of California
• Bjørn Lomborg, Danish author, president of Copenhagen Consensus Center
• Ellen R. McGrattan, professor of economics at the University of Minnesota
• Afshin Molavi, Iranian-American author and expert on global geo-political risk and geo-economics
• Charles I. Plosser, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Raj Shah, former White House Deputy Press Secretary, former Deputy Assistant to the President
• Alex Stamos, computer scientist, former chief security officer at Facebook
• John Yoo, Korean-American attorney, law professor, former government official, author
• Glennys Young, American international relations scholar

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• Tom Bethell, journalist{{cite web |title = William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows |website = Hoover Institution Stanford University |year = 2010 |url = http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |access-date = November 9, 2010 |archive-date = September 27, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074110/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |url-status = live }}
• Sam Dealey, journalist, former editor-in-chief of Washington Times
• Christopher Hitchens, journalist (deceased){{cite web |url= http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |title= William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year |work= hoover.org |access-date= September 20, 2010 |archive-date= September 27, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074110/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |url-status= live }}
• Deroy Murdock, journalist{{cite web |url= http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |title= William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year |website= Hoover Institutio |access-date= September 20, 2010 |archive-date= September 27, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110927074110/http://www.hoover.org/fellows/by-title/media-fellows |url-status= dead }}
• Mike Pride, editor emeritus of the Concord Monitor and former administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes
• Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media

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• Mark Bils, macroeconomist, National Fellow 1989–90{{cite web |url= http://www.sas.rochester.edu/eco/people/faculty/bils_mark/assets/pdf/Bils%20-%20Vita.pdf |title= VITA Mark Bils |website= University of Rochester |access-date= May 31, 2018 |archive-date= September 13, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234210/http://www.sas.rochester.edu/eco/people/faculty/bils_mark/assets/pdf/Bils%20-%20Vita.pdf |url-status= live }}
• Stephen Kotkin, historian, National Fellow 2010–11{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/stephen-kotkin |title=Stephen Kotkin |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=September 29, 2016 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234211/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/stephen-kotkin |url-status=live }}

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• John H. Bunzel, expert in the field of civil rights, race relations, higher education, US politics, and elections (deceased){{cite web |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-h-bunzel |title=John H. Bunzel |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=November 25, 2019 |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213033546/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/john-h-bunzel |url-status=live }}
• Robert Hessen, historian (deceased){{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/robert-hessen |title=Robert Hessen |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=September 29, 2016 |archive-date=September 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913234212/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/robert-hessen |url-status=live }}
• James Stockdale, Navy Vice Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient, 1992 US vice presidential candidate (deceased) {{cite web |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/james-bond-stockdale |title=James Bond Stockdale |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=June 8, 2020 |archive-date=June 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609164319/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/james-bond-stockdale |url-status=live }}
• Edward Teller, physicist (deceased){{cite web |url=https://www.hoover.org/profiles/edward-teller |title=Edward Teller |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=March 7, 2018 |archive-date=March 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308041458/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/edward-teller |url-status=live }}
• Charles Wolf, Jr, economist (deceased){{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/charles-wolf-jr |title=Charles Wolf Jr. |website=Hoover Institution |access-date=September 29, 2016 |archive-date=December 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213073100/https://www.hoover.org/profiles/charles-wolf-jr |url-status=live }}

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• Dwyer, Joseph D., ed. Russia, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe: A Survey of Holdings at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Hoover Press, 1980) [https://books.google.com/books?id=uHurUy22XPwC&dq=%22Hoover+Institution%22&pg=PP13 online].
• Kiester, Sally Valente. "New Influence for Stanford's Hoover Institution." Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 13.7 (1981): 46-50. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00091383.1981.9936994?journalCode=vchn20 online], on role in Reagan administration
• Palm, Charles G., and Dale Reed. Guide to the Hoover Institution Archives (Hoover Press, 1980) [https://books.google.com/books?id=-7JxqQ8qRWUC&dq=%22Hoover+Institution%22&pg=PP11 online].
• Paul, Gary Norman. "The Development of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Library, 1919–1944". PhD dissertation U. of California, Berkeley. Dissertation Abstracts International 1974 35(3): 1682–1683a, 274 pp.
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