Stanford Libraries' Government Information collections government information collection includes publications and data of the U.S. federal, U.S. state and local, foreign, and international governmental agencies in various physical and digital formats.
In pursuit of the common goal of dissemination and long-term preservation of the archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, Stanford Libraries has been authorized by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to manage long-term digital preservation and online hosting with significant scholarly functions for records of the war crimes trial conducted at Nuremberg in 1945 and 1946. The archives were entrusted to the ICJ by a decision of the Tribunal in 1946.
Chinese Studies
The Taube Archive of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-1946 (IMT) is now available as the result of a partnership between the Stanford University Libraries and the Stanford Center for Human Rights and International Justice . This online archive makes available to the global audience digitized versions of the original, unpublished, and complete official record of the IMT.
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The Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies, established in 2022 at Stanford, is a cooperative project intended to promote international exchange in the fields of Chinese studies and Taiwan studies. View the research databases provided by the TRCCS.
Arnold Suppan born 1945 in St.
Stanford University’s Virtual Tribunals initiative, in partnership with the National Archives and Records and Administration (NARA), is proud to release the digitized trial records for Dachau and Mauthausen concentration camps. After World War II, the United States Army arrested many of the perpetrators of the Holocaust and took them to the former concentration camp of Dachau, where they stood trial for war crimes.
Public domain image, courtesy of the J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs, University of Washington Pietro Mascagni The original manuscript of Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), with a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci after a play and story by Giovanni Verga, is a highlight of Stanford's Memorial Library of Music collection.
About us The East Asia Library is the primary location for Stanford's extensive Chinese, Japanese, and Korean collections. Stanford University offered its first courses on East Asia and related subjects in 1906.
Join the Silicon Valley Archives in welcoming Patrick McCray to talk about his latest book, README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines , on January 21, 2026, at 4:00 p.
The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers , comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and his wife Soyo Takahashi during their incarceration at Santa Anita Assembly Center and Manzanar concentration camp, includes correspondence with family in Japan and with Stanford University administration and faculty , as well as a family scrapbook documenting Kaz and Soyo's experiences while incarcerated. The materials, lent to Stanford University Libraries by Caroline Takahashi, Kaz and Soyo's daughter, were recently digitized by the Digital Production Group, and cataloged and described by staff of the Department of Special Collections & University Archives.