Historian Ray Smith shares information from a friend on when then-Sen. Harry Truman tried to find out what was going on in ...

Historian Benn Steil uses Soviet records to challenge notions about what Henry A. Wallace might have achieved as Franklin D.

That makes him the best president in my lifetime since Harry S. Truman, who also had to step into his own ungodly mess, with a different tiger to take by the tail. And he also rolled up his ...

2024-04-03T13:38:10-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/fb3/011/1712165929_011.jpgClifton Truman Daniel, the eldest grandson ...

It was 10:30 in the evening on April 8, 1952, that President Harry S. Truman announced on national TV and radio that he had seized control of the U.S. steel industry. The nation was in the grips ...

That makes him the best president in my lifetime since Harry S. Truman, who also had to step into his own ungodly mess, with a different tiger to take by the tail. And he also rolled up his ...

In this lesson, students will hear from author and NPR Senior Editor Steve Drummond as he discussed the 1940s Senate committee led by Senator and future President Harry Truman that examined the ...

Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1952, U.S. President Harry Truman ordered government seizure of the steel industry to avoid a general strike. In 1960, the United States Senate passed the landmark Civil ...

Harry Truman served as a senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and chaired this new committee that came to be best known as “The Truman Committee.” Here is a link to a video describing a new book, ...