Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near ...

As Republican pressure on education mounts, the fight over the scholarship reveals a broader effort to turn public service ...

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas met with a group July 2 to hear a proposal to name the KCI terminal for President Harry Truman.

2019: Music festival Mamby on the Beach was canceled due to the arrival of a pair of federally endangered piping plover shorebirds on Montrose Beach. Nicknamed Monty and Rose, the pair continued to ...

Through bestselling biographies, David McCullough has single-handedly revived the reputations of Truman (president, 1945-1953) and John Adams (1797-1801), both overshadowed by their formidable ...

That was the preeminent statement applied to President Harry S. Truman, and accurately sums up his political and more general style while in the White House, and thereafter for the rest of his ...

She made her final decision to vote for Truman after hearing him speak at a whistle stop at the St. Paul Union Depot when the President stopped in Minnesota during his now- famous train tour ...

President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune declaring his defeat to Thomas Dewey in the presidential election, in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1948.

When Truman wanted to meet MacArthur in person, the general insisted that the president fly to Wake Island — a 7,000-mile journey for Truman but only a 2,000-mile trip for the Tokyo-based MacArthur.

Vice President Harry S. Truman planned to emphasize Thomas Jefferson’s credentials as farmer and a “great champion of the people” in his Jefferson Day radio address in 1945.

On a hot August afternoon, a 62-year-old man, dressed in green swimming trunks, took a dip in Cape Henlopen. And yes, it was President Truman.