Hoover History Lab Director Stephen Kotkin recently sat down with Dan Wang to discuss how historians work. Here's two hours of Steve breaking down the historian's craft: youtube.com/watch?v=myi0FW…

"An Americas First Case for Reauthorizing the Development Finance Corporation" DFCgov Read CSIS' latest on how DFC could be amended through the reauthorization process and become the most important counter-#China institution for the US in #LatinAmerica.csis.org/analysis/ameri…

Richard Nixon on the editorial practices of the New York Times. (Richard Nixon Foundation)

One way to examine the thinking and ruling style of Chinese President Xi Jinping is through his father's role in the rise and evolution of Chinese-brand communism. Hoover Research Fellow Joseph Torigian, author of the recently released The Party's Interests Come First: The Life

Is this a new era for US policy toward the Americas? I spoke to the UK Forum on a Multipolar World about US engagement in the Western Hemisphere: forummultipolarworld.co.uk/2025/07/30/dr-…

Is this a new era for US policy toward the Americas? Hoover Fellow and History Lab Asst. Director Joseph Ledford spoke to the UK Forum on a Multipolar World about US engagement in the Western Hemisphere. Read more below: forummultipolarworld.co.uk/2025/07/30/dr-…

We are excited to share that the HistoryAtState has released Volume XLIV, Part 1, the U.S. National Security Policy during President Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute's administration. A special thank you to James Graham Wilson, the Supervisory Historian in the Office of the Historian at the

I’m pleased Panama continues to take steps to reduce Chinese Communist Party influence that undermines their sovereignty and our obligations under the Panama Canal Treaties. reuters.com/business/retai…

Stanford historian and Hoover Research Fellow @ProfBurns has been awarded the 2025 Age of Reagan Conference Book Prize by the Ronald Reagan Institute (RRI) for her landmark biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative. Read more about the book and award here: reaganfoundation.org/reagan-institu…

Hoover History Lab Dir. Stephen Kotkin contrasts two caricatures: historians who know one case but avoid generalization and political scientists who generalize from shallow knowledge of many cases. Full discussion w/ @DanWWang: x.com/HooverInst/sta… YT: youtu.be/myi0FWQs0nY

Jerusalem.

August 15, 2025, is the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender to Allied forces in the Pacific, ending World War II. To mark the occasion, @P_M_Robinson sits down with Jonathan Horn and Ian W. Toll on @UncKnowledge to examine the most contested decision of WWII: the use of atomic

🇵🇦 NEW: In Panama, Trump's fight with China is expanding beyond the canal. Can its shaken leaders hang on? I traced Panama's quieter moves away from China — as leaders try to please Trump without provoking a restive public. My dispatch for POLITICO Magazine 👇🏻politico.com/news/magazine/…

Declassified documents pull back the curtain on Reagan’s crusade against nuclear weapons — and the resistance inside his own team. ow.ly/cEIw30sOY3h

On School of War: Four years ago today 13 American service members were killed in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate during the chaotic evacuation at Kabul International Airport. My interview with Geoff Ball, the Marine company commander at the gate, is up now. 👇

"Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy" by Frank Gavin, coming out in September Yale University Press As a fellow applied history ayatollah, I couldn't not recommend a book that methodically lays out the benefits to be drawn from historical thinking in public policy.

Secretary Marco Rubio: "This is the most meaningful Labor Day of my life with as someone with four jobs."

Working on policy-relevant history? Hoover Institution is seeking early-career historians for the position of Hoover Fellow. Based at Stanford, the fellowship is a 5-year appointment, with an option to renew for 5 more. Apply below: hoover.smapply.us/prog/hoover_fe…

This summer, the Hoover History Lab, in partnership with The @ConcordReview, hosted the inaugural Hoover History Skills Academy—providing twenty-four high school students the opportunity to work with original documents at Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Read more: hoover.org/news/teens-dis…

As the ceremonies for the formal surrender of Japan concluded #OTD in 1945, MacArthur told Halsey "Start 'em now" which was the order for the final display of airpower. Hundreds of carrier-based planes and B-29 bombers filled the sky over Tokyo Bay to punctuate the day's events.