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Forgotten tale of how America saved a starving Russia

American Relief Administration transport column on the frozen Volga. (Photo: Hoover Institution Archives) Every so often, a journalist stumbles upon a great, untold story during routine research or...

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How pots of jam saved the Bolshevik revolution

The Bolsheviks were saved by pots of jam from the Britain’s Midlands and lots of Scottish herring, though you would have thought the Baltic Sea was already full of fish. Last month, Robert Service,...

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Herbert Hoover: “He was a techie, a geek, a nerd. Where did he come from?”

Hoover with a homemade ham radio, probably at Stanford’s Lou Henry Hoover House. (Photo: U.S. Dept. of Commerce) Elena Danielson, director emerita of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, is...

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