Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?

The 2024-25 high school sports season in the Kanawha Valley will be one that will be talked about for a long time. Let's take ...

Between 1933 and 2020, a period covering 14 presidents, economic growth has averaged 4.6% under Democrats as compared to 2.4% ...

America’s history of high tariffs actually continued well after 1913, however, and Trump’s take on what sparked the Great Depression — and Hoover-era Washington's response to it — don't ...

Hoover, accompanied by Mrs. Hoover, had left his S street home a few moments before and gone to the White House where they joined President and Mrs. Coolidge and the congressional inaugural committee.

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) - Highlights of Herbert Hoover's inauguration speech: "The most malign of all these dangers, which confront this country today is disregard and disobedience of law." ...

On Monday, at approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a ...

Monday, March 4, 1929 Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover My Countrymen: This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which can be assumed by an American citizen. It is a ...

On the outskirts of London, a Georgian country house that was the first “White House” President Herbert Hoover ever called home has hit the market for £1.99 million (US$2.48 million).

Lou Henry Hoover wore a velvet dress with a zig-zag pattern to Herbert Hoover's inauguration. In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S. Sibley wrote in " A ...

Former President Harry Trump had a goatee in 1948 when in office, and former President Herbert Hoover’s vice president, Charles Curtis, was the last VP to have facial hair, a mustache in 1929 ...

Several inaugurations have left a newly minted president drenched. President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come.