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Use Historical Documents in the Classroom

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Hoover Heads
New pages featuring little known Hoover facts

The Great Famine
The American Experience: The Great Famine

Hoover Museum orientation film, this may take several minutes to load.
Hoover Library & Museum Orientation film

Education

Teacher Curriculum Guides

Hoover Online

New Curriculum Guide for Teachers- I Spy!

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Presdient and Mrs. Hoover

 

Hoover Museum in the spring

Herbert Hoover Birthplace Cottage

Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover Gravesites


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:

  • Mr. Hoover's birthplace cottage
  • a blacksmith shop
  • Quaker Meeting house
  • school house
  • the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover

Hoover Games

Hoover Wore Many Hats Hoover Wore Many Hats, an interactive game for children of all ages. Play the game.
Hoover's Cross-Country Adventure
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.)

 

Iowans and the Civil War

A Soldier's Story
June 22, 2013

Cancelled

A 62 year-old Civil War veteran reminiscing about his journey from slavery to freedom in this one -man show.

Eastern Iowa Brass Band
July 4, 2013

The Eastern Iowa Brass Band has been entertaining audiences for over 25 years, their performance at the Hoover Museum on the 4th of July is free and open to the public. Please bring your lawn chair - the concert will be outside, weather permitting.

Family Movie Nights
Wednesday Evenings, July 10 - August 14

Free admission to the Museum Galleries from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Each Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. a feature length Civil War era movie will be shown in the Hoover Auditorium. See a list of movies.

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