A year shy of its 90th anniversary, experts still marvel at the construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most visited sites ...

Harold Ickes, whom Roosevelt chose to become Interior secretary in his administration, decided in May 1933 to revert the name back to Boulder Dam because he felt it “should not carry the name of any ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as ... and controversy for the next 17 years.

The marvel of the Hoover Dam is something that Daniel and I had ... prompting discussions about water management. In 1922, Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, negotiated the Colorado ...

Major John Wesley Powell makes the first recorded trip through the Grand Canyon and down the length of the Colorado River. The one-armed Civil War veteran followed this expedition with a second ...

Responding to Europe’s plight, Herbert Hoover helped organize and lead an ... Of course, we all know what happened next: Wilson failed to implement his vision. His compromises at the Paris ...