In the spring of 1930, more than 1,000 economists across the United States wrote a letter urging President Herbert Hoover to ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would ...

One expert is comparing the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the aftermath of a trade policy that deepened ...

Like Trump, the 31st president backed Israel and sought peace through real-estate deals.

The tariffs are the steepest since the 1930s. Whether world trade collapses, like it did then, depends on whether other ...

While the description now conjures up Trump, it also applies to Herbert Hoover, who led the country nearly a century ago during the onset of the Great Depression. Within months of the stock market ...

The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board approved a $400,000 grant for the Herbert Hoover Presidential Foundation on ...

The Generals got off on the right foot. Host Winfield got all the offense it needed with two runs in the bottom of the first ...

Jack Whitver last week received the 2025 Herbert Hoover Uncommon Public Service Awards. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the ...

Then he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time. “In 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would ...