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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Herbert Hoover Library Association
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Frequently Asked Questions
Volunteering & Employment
Use Historical Documents in the Classroom
The Public Papers of Herbert Hoover
Student Research Projects
New pages featuring little known Hoover facts
The American Experience:
The Great Famine
Hoover Library & Museum Orientation film
Hoover Wore Many Hats, an interactive game for children of all ages. Play the game. |
Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure,
drive your car across the USA by answering state trivia. Have fun and learn along the way! Play the game! (This game works best with Macromedia's Flash Player. Download the free Flash Player from Macromedia.) |
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Celebrating 50 Years!
Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman at the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, August 10, 1962.
The Hoover Library & Museum enables visitors to experience for themselves the many sides of Iowa's only president:
- The permanent galleries begin with Hoover's boyhood in Iowa and continue on to the Waldorf Towers in New York where he spent the final years of his life.
- The Quarton Gallery offers exciting temporary exhibits relating to American history.
- In the Hoover Library people of all ages can learn about President Hoover's life and career. Using manuscripts, photographs and oral histories, one can learn the stories of our history.
 
The Hoover Museum sits on the grounds of the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site where visitors can tour:
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Mr. Hoover's birthplace cottage
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a blacksmith shop
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Quaker Meeting house
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the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover
Herbert Hoover's Birthplace Cottage
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Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover's Gravesite
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News and Events |
Celebrating 50 Years at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum
Creating the Legacy, Dining with the President, and Ideas of Lincoln and Hoover - all on display to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hoover Library-Museum. April 21 - October 28 |
Three Illinois Women during the Civil War
June 1, 2012, 12:00 p.m.
Guest presenter Betty Carlson Kay will portray 3 women in a 40 minute presentation. The cost for the event is $25 and includes lunch and autographed copy of book.
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Wednesday Evenings, Family Night
July 11 - August 15
Free admission beginning at 5 p.m. and a feature length movie from the year 1962 shown in the auditorium. |
| For Teachers! June 20-21, Project Archaeology, teachers receive graduate or continuing education credit. Email for more information. |
Book Talk
July 14, 2012
Author Glen Jeansonne speaking about - The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker 1928-1933 |
Conference
Pivot Point: American Foreign Policy at Mid Century
July 28, 2012
Call for more details, 319.643.5301. |
Hoover's Hometown Days
August 3-4, 2012 |
50th Anniversary Celebration
August 10, 2012 - free admission and cake for all visitors!
August 11 - 1:00 p.m. "Recalling 50 Years - An Afternoon of Conversations". Program is free, regular admission to view museum galleries. |
1940 U.S. Census
Are you ready for the 1940 Census? Available online beginning April 2 from the National Archives.
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