Harry Truman

General Dwight Eisenhower with President Harry Truman at an airfield in Brussels, Belgium, en route to Potsdam on July 15, 1945. (Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)

Winning the War: Truman, Eisenhower and the Fight for Democracy

First of two installments Consider it an example of just how small two towering global figures could be. The year: 1961.  The event: a high-stakes summit that called for discretion and diplomacy, given that two titans on the world stage — Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower — for years had maintained an often-frosty distance from…

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Truman Library visitors to the exhibit can examine Katy McCormick’s photographs displayed alongside witness testimonials of the bombings.

Truman Library Makes Plans to Host Hiroshima Trees

Descendants of trees that survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb that helped end World War II are expected to be planted at the Truman Library sometime in 2024.

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David McCullough (at right), when not in the Truman Library research room, would seek out then-living Harry Truman contemporaries across the Kansas City area for interviews.

Inside David McCullough’s Relationship with the Truman Library

Here’s the inside story of how Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough helped raise the profile of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.

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A small theater showcasing Harry Truman's experience as a World War I artillery battery captain displays a field gun used by American troops.

Harry Truman’s Remarkably Fraught First Political Campaign

Harry Truman almost was the president who never was. His first campaign, waged a century ago, was fraught with missteps that could have ended his political career.

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Tour sign for an alleged UFO crash site near Rosewell, New Mexico.

Truman, Eisenhower and the Endless Pursuit of UFOs

This summer is the 75th anniversary of the Roswell, New Mexico, alien conspiracy incident. Here’s a brief history of our ongoing pursuit of proof aliens have visited Earth.

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