Collection White House Women
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
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First Lady Lou Hoover, 1928.
While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Biographies & Portraits
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover had experience as wife of a man eminent in...
The 2016 White House Christmas ornament honors the administration of the thirty-first president of the United States Herbert Hoover, who served...
Article 2 Section 1 of the United States Constitution begins with the following: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of...
Christmas of 1929 was a snowy season in the nation’s capital. President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Hoover planned to...
Interest in the White House grew after President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover took up residence in 1929. Lou Hoover appreciated the...
The following excerpt is from Nancy Beck Young’s Lou Hoover: Activist First Lady, University of Kansas Press, 2004. The White Ho...
The gilded American bald eagle featured on the 2017 White House Christmas ornament is inspired by the eagle cartouche emblazoned on...
Following her death in 1944, one newspaper remarked that “Lou Henry Hoover’s life was a full, rich one, which has left...