BOOKS ON THE HYPERKINETIC ELEANOR Roosevelt abound, outnumbering those about all but the most illustrious presidents, while her predecessor, Lou Henry Hoover, has so suffered by comparison that to ...

This week's scene of the president, vice president, a Harvard professor and Cambridge policeman meeting so civilly over beers might be an occasion to note how much history can change. Host Scott Simon ...

An archivist working at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library has stumbled upon color home movies taken in the late 1920s by former First Lady Lou Hoover. Incredibly, this is very likely the first ...

Future First Lady Lou Henry was born in Waterloo in 1874 and spent her first 10 years there and Shell Rock. In 1884, her parents, Florence Ida Weed Henry and Charles Delano Henry, moved the family to ...

Former First Lady Lou Hoovers home movies may be the earliest color home movies ever taken at the White House The reels provide glimpses into the Florida fishing trip taken by Herbert and Lou Hoover ...

Thus far, photo and film footage of former President Herbert Hoover has been in black and white -- but some newly discovered material puts the early 20th century president and his family in full color ...