America turns 250 years old, hosts the FIFA World Cup and celebrates the 100th birthday of the iconic Route 66 -- all great ...

Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is looking forward to getting a sliver of the $9 billion Great American Outdoors Act signed into law by President Donald ...

Two organizations, the Hoover Birthplace Committee of 1939 and the Hoover Birthplace Foundation, which started in 1954, joined forces in 1957 as the Herbert Hoover Foundation Inc. to reproduce the ...

President Herbert Hoover's birthplace. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Hoover was born in 1874 and spent the first three years of his life in this two-room cottage in West Branch, Iowa.

Elwood Mead, the namesake of Lake Mead, oversaw the construction of Hoover Dam as head of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. (Los Angeles Times/Wikimedia Commons) ...

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Library to close for the rest of 2025 what to know about the $20.3 million renovation project. ... which includes Hoover's birthplace, ...

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum is getting closer to meeting the $20.3 million fundraising goal for its significant renovation project, which is set to begin in the first ...

Hoover’s 1928 program — a higher tariff across the board — is the obvious ancestor of Trump’s proposed 2024 program of 10 percent tariffs on goods from all countries and 60 percent on ...

On March 22, 1954, the Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation formed and the Hoover Birthplace Society merged with this foundation, seven decades ago. On March 22, 2024, the Foundation under its new ...

Before Donald Trump contemplated militarized mass deportations, Herbert Hoover oversaw the deportation of a million Mexican Americans for allegedly stealing U.S. jobs.