President Harry Truman was two hours late pulling into Union Station Sept. 30, 1948; that’s not bad considering he was nearing the end of an 8,300-mile campaign trip to the West Coast and back. It was ...

Harry Truman knew little about the plans to use atomic weapons when he took office. By that time there was little he could ...

On this day in history, May 8, 1945, President Harry Truman announced to the American people that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered in World War II — and that "the flags of freedom fly all over ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence opened a brand new exhibit this week. It’s called, “Upset! Harry Truman and the 1948 election.” And, it ...

Early one evening in February 1946, Harry Truman summoned the White House’s chief usher to the second-floor Oval Study. He pointed out the window through the South Portico to the Washington Monument ...

After Joe Biden’s historic decision Sunday to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election, many people were asking about previous times in which a sitting president opted against reelection at a late ...

America was up in arms, and it was all the president’s doing. Harry Truman had gone too far this time, and folks were furious. What had struck such a raw nerve? Was it dropping the atomic bomb (twice) ...