A little over two weeks after succeeding FDR, President Harry Truman learned the United States had been developing an atomic ...

Major Acts: Harry S. Truman used nuclear weapons to end World War II. The Taft-Hartley labor law moderately restricted union activity. Truman raised the minimum wage and expanded Social Security.

May 8 marks significant historical events including the end of the world war II in Europe, to origin of Coca-Cola, to ...

My grandfather Harry S. Truman, who was sworn in as president after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, had ...

President Harry Truman's diary is one source historians have evaluated for information about his decisions at the end of World War II. Read this excerpt written in mid-June, while the Battle of ...

I recently had the joy of reading one of the most profound books I have read in a long time. The Accidental President is a ...

It was 10:30 in the evening on April 8, 1952, that President Harry S. Truman announced on national ... of California,” website, the “end of World War II was followed by an uneasy transition ...

The following idea for this "Historically Speaking" column and much of the content comes from C. Mark Smith, a friend in Hanford, Washington. In addition to his information about Hanford, he provided ...

When you enter the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, it almost feels like stepping onto a movie set. As an ...

THE western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, 75 years ago, ...

Truman and his speechwriters should stop trying to make the president sound like his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt. In other words, let Harry be Harry. “Put him on the rear end of a train ...

In the closing weeks of World War II’s European theatre ... managing future post-war efforts fell upon his successor, Harry Truman. Truman took the oath of office that day and, with the weight ...