I’m Nick Siekierski. I created this site to share my passion for history and current affairs. I received my PhD from the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2022.

Since 2017 I have been working as a translator from Polish to English and an English language tutor. I translated the concentration camp memoir of Jerzy Kwiatkowski, 485 Days at Majdanek, published by the Hoover Institution Press in 2021.

-I’ve always liked to learn about the past and organize things, I guess you could say I was born to be a historian and an archivist.

-I attended San Jose State University, studying history for my bachelor’s degree and earned my master’s degree in library and information science.

-I worked at the Hoover Library and Archives at Stanford University for fifteen years. I was fortunate to experience life in a research library from almost every angle. I’ve created museum exhibits, written articles, lead tours, blogged, made presentations on topics in 20th century history and taught research strategies to students, professionals and local groups.

-I was a Silas Palmer Fellow at the Hoover Institution in 2015.

ResearchTeacher.com features book reviews, translations, videos, commentary and other forms of unique content relating to history and current affairs. If you have any questions, suggestions or just want to say hello, send me an email Nick [at] researchteacher.com

Thanks for visiting,

Nick

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Select Articles by Nick Siekierski:

“So Many Others Stood Silent,” Hoover Digest, no. 1, 2015

“Herbert Hoover and the Promise of the 1928 Election”(with Dr. Richard Frederick), A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, Wiley-Blackwell, September 2014

“Jan Karski i Instytut Hoovera,” (Jan Karski and the Hoover Institution), Archeion, CXII, 2011, pg. 153, Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych (The Head Office of State Archives, Warsaw, Poland)

“Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and its Aftermath” (Book Review), Polish Review, Fall 2013

“Windows into History,” Hoover Digest, no. 4, 2013 (in conjunction with the exhibition “Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives”)

“Herbert Hoover’s Indictment of Allied Strategy,” Paprika Politik, August 16, 2013

“Unlocking Andrzej Pomian’s London Archive,” Behind the Scenes, November 29, 2012

“Mightier than Swords,” Hoover Digest, no. 4, 2012 (in conjunction with the exhibition “The Battle for Hearts and Minds: World War II Propaganda”)

“Herbert Hoover’s Grand Parade in Warsaw,” Behind the Scenes, August 14, 2012

“Ideas and Consequences,” Hoover Digest, no. 3, 2009 (in conjunction with the exhibition “A Revolutionary Idea: Hoover Making History Since 1919”)

“As the Clever Hopes Expired,” Hoover Digest, no. 1, 2009 (in conjunction with the exhibition “Shattered Peace: The Road to World War II”)

“Dziewięćdziesiąt Lat Instytutu Hoovera-Zarys Historii Polskich Zbiorów” (Ninety years of the Hoover Institution: an overview of the history of its Polish collections)[with Dr. Maciej Siekierski], Pro Memoria, no. 1, 2009