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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
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Use Historical Documents in the Classroom
The Public Papers of Herbert Hoover
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New pages featuring little known Hoover facts

The American Experience:
The Great Famine

Hoover Library & Museum Orientation film
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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
- school house
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the gravesite of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover
Hoover Games
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Hoover Wore Many Hats, an interactive game for children of all ages. Play the game. |
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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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Eastern Iowa Brass Band
Memorial Day, May 27, 2:00 p.m.
The Eastern Iowa Brass Band has been entertaining audiences for over 25 years, their performance at the Hoover Museum on Memorial Day is free and open to the public.
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A Soldier's Story
June 22, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
A 62 year-old Civil War veteran reminiscing about his journey from slavery to freedom in this one -man show.
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