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Biographer A.J. Baime recalled the life of civil rights activist Walter F. White, who was the executive secretary of the NAACP in the mid-1900s as well as a reporter who “passed” as white to…

Historian A.J. Baime recounted the 1948 presidential election. This was a virtual event hosted by the Commonwealth Club of California.

A.J. Baime talked about his book The Accidental President, in which he looks at the challenges that President Harry Truman faced during his first four months in office.

A.J. Baime talked about his book, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War. He spoke with Greg Burns, a member of the Chicago Tribune Editorial Boar…

This program from the annual Harry S. Truman Legacy Symposium focused on Russia and the Cold War. Panelists talked about the 33rd president’s relationship with British Prime Minister Winston…

A.J. Baime talked about his book, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World , on President Truman’s first four months in office.