Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, served from 1945 to 1953. He is remembered for decisive leadership during the closing months of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, ...

As I typed the dateline about this journey to learn about a monumental aspect of President Harry S. Truman’s legacy, I kept thinking about how the most compelling part of being a journalist often is ...

President Harry S Truman (1945-53) spent many a lonely night in the Executive Mansion’s “living quarters.” To escape Washington, D.C.’s summer shenanigans, Mrs. Truman opted for sanctuary in their hom ...

Harry Truman's Air Force One plane, a Douglas VC-118 named The Independence, was only the second aircraft built specifically ...

President Harry S. Truman holds up a now-infamous Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced a Truman defeat on Nov. 4, 1948. After a short ...

President Truman was never told about the Manhattan Project as vice president. It was only after President Roosevelt passed away and Truman was sworn in as president that he was informed of the ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The city of Independence, Missouri, celebrated President Harry S. Truman's 140th birthday on Saturday with a new statue, free photo exhibit and other events. Truman is a hometown ...

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 Friday by ...

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer so famously after watching his brainchild, the first atomic bomb, explode in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. But ...