On May 2, 1972, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover died of heart disease at a Washington hospital, ending his 48-year period of total control over the federal agency he created and managed. Hoover, a power ...

The world’s greatest collection of incendiary literature was last week opened to the public by Herbert Hoover. It is the Hoover Library of War, Revolution, and Peace on the Campus of Stanford ...

The Blind Boys of Alabama are scheduled to kick off the 2015-16 Hoover Library Theatre season at the Hoover Public Library in Hoover, Ala., on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24-25, 2015. (Photo provided ...

Thomas Schwartz is director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum at West Branch. February is the month we celebrate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. In 1879, ...

Images of Herbert Hoover are often dark and grainy, seeming to serve as a visual representation of the period when Hoover was president of the United States. But as it turns out, Hoover, a Republican ...

HOOVER, Alabama - The Hoover Library Board today picked the second lowest bidder to do a $174,361 renovation of the library's main circulation desk. Duncan & Thompson Construction today was awarded ...

2007-09-07T19:59:48-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/471/200501-m.jpgThe first in a series on presidential libraries focused on Herbert Hoover’s life and career ...

WEST BRANCH - When you think of President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou, you probably don't think of jazz, gangsters and Prohibition. But the new exhibit, 'Ain't Misbehavin'? The World of the ...

An aging Iowa landmark got a boost Friday as Gov. Kim Reynolds announced a $5 million grant for an overhaul of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in West Branch. The grant was the ...

The Hoover Public Library announced that overdue fines will be ending later in May -- just in time for the library's summer ...

WEST BRANCH, Iowa (KCRG) - The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site received a visit from the United States National Archivist, Dr. Colleen Shogan. It’s one of the final stops in her tour across the ...