Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-five years ago, The Truman Show predicted our current reality TV era. (Illustration by Aisha Yousaf for Yahoo / Photo: ...

The Truman Library currently is exhibiting 21 original documents from American history. “Opening the Vault: The Story of US,” ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV5) — Monday marks 50 years since the death of Harry Truman. The 33rd president died in Kansas City on Dec. 26, 1972, at the age of 88. His funeral service and burial took place ...

An iconic photo: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune declaring his defeat to Thomas Dewey in the presidential election. St. Louis, MIssouri: November, 1948. Credit: ...

In a chapter from Whistlestop, his new book about presidential campaign history, the Face the Nation moderator describes how Harry Truman rose from the dead in 1948. On a Monday night in the spring of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence opened a brand new exhibit this week. It’s called, “Upset! Harry Truman and the 1948 election.” And, it ...

On 27 occasions, presidents have called both houses into session to deal with a crisis. The most recent of these special sessions — and the first one since 1856 — met at the behest of President Harry ...

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Steve Drummond about his book, The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two. We have a little-known chapter ...

Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016 led many to wonder how the pollsters and pundits got it so wrong and how the national media were so clueless about what was happening in America. Well, it’s ...

Churchill, Truman, and Stalin at Potsdam Conference. So how did a man with little formal education, whose sole business venture went bankrupt, and who was appointed to his civil service job by a ...