KCRG-TV 9 in Cedar Rapids aired a story of the Museum over the weekend. You can watch it here: kcrg.com/2025/08/31/we-…

To mark architect Louis Sullivan’s birthday, today, September 3rd, is National Skyscraper Day! Here is Herbert Hoover by the window of his Waldorf-Astoria apartment with the Chrysler Building in the distance. (31-1963-a10)

Read our latest HooverHeads blog post, "Reviews of New Deal Books." hoover.blogs.archives.gov

Attention Educators! #ConstitutionDay is only 2 weeks away! Join us 9/16-9/18 for one of our FREE Civics for All of Us webinars on the Constitution. Programs are available for K-12. To learn more or register please visit: clintonlibrary.gov/education/civi…

#FlashbackFriday to 1961 as artifacts arrive as the Hoover Presidential Library & Museum was being built. Trustee, William Wagner holds a 1912 Hoover translation of De Re Metallica, a 1556 mining book written by Georgius Agricola. See construction photos: hoover.archives.gov/galleries/muse…

#OnThisDay September 6, 1930, the Arlington Bridge over the Potomac River connecting Washington, D.C. to Virginia, was under construction. (31-1930-b10)

Attention Educators! #ConstitutionDay is next week! Join us 9/16-9/18 for one of our FREE Civics for All of Us webinars on the Constitution. Programs are available for K-12. To learn more or register please visit: clintonlibrary.gov/education/civi…

Attention Educators! #ConstitutionDay is next week! Join us 9/16-9/18 for one of our FREE Civics for All of Us webinars on the Constitution. Programs are available for K-12. To learn more or register please visit: clintonlibrary.gov/education/civi…

Constitution Day is September 17. Our #FlashbackFriday looks back at our 2003 celebration of Constitution Day, Library Director, Tim Walch, speaking to West Branch students about the Founding Fathers and the Constitution. See new construction photos here: hoover.archives.gov/galleries/muse…

Attention Educators! #ConstitutionDay starts tomorrow! Join us 9/16-9/18 for one of our FREE Civics for All of Us webinars on the Constitution. Programs are available for K-12. To learn more or register please visit: clintonlibrary.gov/education/civi…

#OnThisDay September 17, 1930, construction began on the Hoover Dam. (31-al20-176). Watch this short video on our website about the Dam: hoover.archives.gov/timeline/timel…

#OnThisDay September 18, 1940, Hu Shih, China’s Ambassador to the U.S. and Herbert Hoover received honorary degrees from Dr. Thomas S. Gates, President of the University of Pennsylvania. (31-1940-43)

Today, September 19 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. #FlashbackFriday recalls our Missing Man table that was set up in our lobby in 2009. Visit our website for the newest construction photos: hoover.archives.gov/galleries/muse…

After breaking the women’s flight endurance record of 196 hours and 6 minutes in Aug. 1932, pilots Louise Thaden & Frances Marsalis, met President Hoover #OnThisDay Sept. 22, 1932. (L-R: Irene Juno, Clarence Young, Marsalis, Hoover, Thaden, & I.J. Fox (31-al07-178)

#OnThisDay September 23, 1957, Herbert Hoover visited the construction of the St. Lawrence Power Project in New York. (31-1957-68)

Check out the latest Hoover Heads blog post: hoover.blogs.archives.gov/.../hoover-on-…

Today’s #FlashbackFriday looks back at the 2012 naturalization ceremony to celebrate Constitution Day. We and the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site have hosted these ceremonies on our east lawn since 2006. See current construction photos: hoover.archives.gov/galleries/muse…

Today, September 29th, is National Coffee Day! Try our Lou Henry Hoover Signature Blend, available in our online store: estore.archives.gov/hoover/product…

We’re sorry, but we will not be able to post updates to our social media channels during the government shutdown. All National Archives events–virtual or in person–are canceled until further notice. We will be unable to reply to messages or emails until the government reopens.

MLB playoffs are underway. #FlashbackFriday is our 2015 exhibit, “The Signature of Baseball,” a collection of 181 baseballs signed by world leaders owned by Randy L. Kaplan and historical items from the Cedar Rapids Kernels. See construction progress: hoover.archives.gov/galleries/muse…