{"id":11921,"date":"2019-07-30T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:15:09","slug":"100-years-of-the-hoover-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/100-years-of-the-hoover-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of the Hoover Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year marks the centennial anniversary of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or at least, in theory, it sort of does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1919 Herbert Hoover \u2014 then a 45-year-old multimillionaire, mining engineer, and veteran of efforts to save the starving of Europe and Russia following World War I \u2014 gave $50,000 (about $600,000 today) and his million-document collection on the war and its detritus to his beloved alma mater, Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1921, the expanding \u201cHoover War Collection\u201d \u2014 hardly a \u201cthink tank\u201d \u2014 had become formalized as Stanford\u2019s prestigious Hoover War Library, with some 1.4 million documents and books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two decades, the iconic 285-foot Hoover tower was built in 1941 on Stanford\u2019s 50th anniversary. And by 1947 the library and its staff were formally renamed the \u201cHoover Institute&nbsp;and Library on War, Revolution and Peace\u201d \u2014 still embedded within Stanford University, but perhaps not yet even a true think tank \u2014 and in theory not necessarily to be ideologically part of Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/07\/hoover-institution-100-year-anniversary-conservative-stronghold\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review This year marks the centennial anniversary of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Or at least, in theory, it sort of does. In 1919 Herbert Hoover \u2014 then a 45-year-old multimillionaire, mining engineer, and veteran of efforts to save the starving of Europe and Russia following World War I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-36h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12747,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/denigrating-hoover\/","url_meta":{"origin":11921,"position":0},"title":"Denigrating Hoover","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Stanford Daily Matt Larson (\u201cHoover has gone too far,\u201d Nov. 19, 2020) cited me among others\u00a0in his Stanford Daily angry attack on\u00a0Hoover Institution scholars. 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