The crisis has echoes of past humanitarian crises that left presidents wringing their hands over how to respond.

The stakes are high, with the United States and India counting on each other as indispensable partners in their competition ...

Herbert Hoover went on to become the 31st President of the United States. With the Great Humanitarian as Chief Executive prosperity seemed to be on the horizon in America.

On an ornate page of a guest book from the now-defunct Judson Inn is the slanting signature of Lou Henry Hoover of Stanford ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

TODAY: (Updated 2:53 p.m.) President Gerald R. Ford visited the gravesite of former President Herbert Hoover on Oct. 18, 1989. Here is his speech from that day, courtesy of the ...