Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were made up of scraps of wood, tin, tar, and cardboard. The dilapidated shacks surrounded by some of New York's most impressive buildings caught people ...

Images of Herbert Hoover are often dark and grainy, seeming to serve as a visual representation of the period when Hoover was president of the United States. But as it turns out, Hoover ...

Staff/Mirrorpix/Getty Images In an effort to save money ... At the beginning of the Depression, President Herbert Hoover largely dismissed the stock market crash as a "passing incident in our ...

Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Stanford University historian Bertrand Patenaude talked about Herbert Hoover and aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia from 1921 to 1922.

At the beginning of the Depression, President Herbert Hoover largely dismissed the stock market crash as a "passing incident in our national lives." Hoover did not believe in offering federal aid ...