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Title: Harold H. Fisher papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1974
Collection Number: XX235
Creator:
Fisher, Harold H., 1890-1975
Collection Size: 33 manuscript boxes, 44 card file boxes, 5 envelopes, 1 oversize box, l phonorecord (36.3 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Clippings, printed matter, notes, correspondence, pamphlets, articles, microfilm, and photographs, relating to the Soviet
Union, the San Francisco Conference organizing the United Nations, the Civil War in Spain, Herbert Hoover and the American
Relief Administration, and the history of Finland.
Language:
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Harold H. Fisher papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
American Relief Administration.
United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.)
International relief.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief.
Finland.
Finland--History.
Spain.
Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union--History.
United States--Foreign relations.
| 1911 | A.B., University of Vermont |
| 1917-1918 | Captain of field artillery, U.S. Army |
| 1922 | Assistant to Herbert Hoover with the American Relief Administration (A.R.A.); chief of history department of A.R.A. |
| 1936 | Honorary doctorate of humane letters (L.H.D.), University of Vermont |
| 1943-1955 | Director, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; professor of history, Stanford University |
| 1945 | Assistant to former governor Harold E. Stassen of U.S. Delegation to San Francisco Conference |
| 1946-1947 | Director, School of Naval Administration, Stanford University |
| 1955-1960 | Professor of international relations, San Francisco State College |
| Also: Author of numerous books on the Soviet Union; editorial writer for the Washington Herald; business editor of The New Republic; radio news analyst for CBS and NBC; active in Asian scholarship; former director of Belgian-American Educational Foundation |
Scope and Content of Collection
Clippings, printed matter, notes, correspondence, pamphlets, articles, microfilm, and
photographs, relating to the Soviet Union, the San Francisco Conference organizing the
United Nations, the Civil War in Spain, Herbert Hoover and the American Relief
Administration, and the history of Finland.