Following World War II, President Truman helped produce the modern national security state by creating the Central ...

On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the ...

In war, the deaths of civilians and combatants are unfortunately inevitable. Today, 80 years after the dropping of atomic ...

Sixty years ago Wednesday, President Lyndon B. Johnson traveled to Independence, Missouri, to sign a groundbreaking piece of legislation.

"Truman never completely rose above that heritage," Raymond Geselbracht, editor of the book, "The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman," said during a 2010 speech.

President Harry S. Truman delivers inaugural address on January 20, 1949. While he kept his own pockets clean, Truman remained loyal to Pendergast and his political friends to the final hour.

Margaret Truman, left, and her mother Bess look over the shoulder of Sen. Harry S. Truman (D-Mo.) in Kansas City as he makes a chart of election returns heard over the radio, Nov. 7, 1944.

The Truman Scholarship was established in 1975 to honor Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images) The 2025 cohort of Truman Scholars was announced ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In a recent interview, the late Harry S. Truman took a dim of Donald J. Trump. Truman, the winner in the 1948 presidential election upset, said, “All readers cannot be ...

President Harry S. Truman at his desk in 1945. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed one of the most consequential documents of ...

The 2022 class of Truman Scholars has been announced by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. This year’s scholars include 58 college students representing 53 U.S. colleges and universities.