Videos

NPR’s Steve Drummond told the story of Senator Harry Truman’s bipartisan investigation of corruption during the World War II defense build-up. The author built his account on the records of …

Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests …

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog was among those marking President Harry Truman’s 1948 decision to recognize the newly created State of Israel. The Truman Library Institute host…

The story of the 33rd president’s education was told in the newly renovated Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. He was the only 20th century president who…

Sculptor Tom Corbin talked about creating a statue of President Harry Truman that is designed for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, created th…

Military historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman’s World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Instit…

Kansas City Public Library director John Herron talked about Harry Truman’s early political career, the Kansas City Pendergast political machine, and a 1926 offer to the future president to …

Former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill who, like Harry Truman, served in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Missouri, recounted her predecessor’s national political career. This program is par…

Education director Mark Adams showed items in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum collection that tell the story of President Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs, including…

Michael Neiberg -- war studies chair at the U.S. Army War College -- talked about the personalities and stakes involved at the 1945 Potsdam Conference convened near the end of World War II. …

Panelists debated whether the use of the atomic bomb was morally sound, necessary to end the war, or the first shot of the Cold War. With thousands of combatants and civilians dying each mon…

Panelists talked about the implications of post World War II atomic energy usage and the efforts made by the Truman administration to make nuclear energy available for civilian usage. Th…

Steven Casey talked about his book Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 (Oxford University Press, 2008). In his book about how the…