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Truman, Harry
 Websites presented in alphabetical order American Experience: Truman 
 Companion to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) American Experience program about Harry S. Truman, the 33rd U.S. president. Features biographical material, timeline, documents, and image gallery. Includes information about domestic policy (such as civil rights) and foreign policy (such as the decision to drop the atomic bomb and the division of post-World War II Europe). Also includes a teacher's guide and show transcript. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/ Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated Jan 2, 2009 The Berlin Airlift
Devoted to the post-World War II Berlin airlift (1948-49), during which "the Truman administration reacted with a continual daily airlift which brought much needed food and supplies into the city of West Berlin." Includes background information about the event, memos, reports, telegrams, photographs, oral histories, and more. From the Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/ Topics: History, History By Place, Military, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Presidents by Name, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Mar 1, 2008 Dear Bess: Love Letters From the President
Digital versions of letters from Harry to Bess Truman sent between 1910 and 1957. The letters "not only [show] the personal loving relationship between Harry and Bess, but the President's efforts to use his wife as a sounding board for the issues of state." Selected letters have been transcribed. From the Truman Presidential Museum & Library. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/dearbess.htm Topics: Correspondence, Presidents by Name Last updated Nov 9, 2006 Eleanor & Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
Facsimiles and transcriptions of the 1945-1959 correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The correspondence shows how "from a formal, often wary, political relationship developed also a strong friendship. Ultimately, Harry Truman designated Eleanor Roosevelt as his representative on the United Nations and 'First Lady of the World.'" Includes biographies, lesson plans, photos, and related links. A joint project of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/eleanor/ Topics: Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Oct 5, 2007 The First Proposal or What a Future President of the United States Did When He Was Rejected by the Woman He Loved
This article describes the early relationship and almost nine-year courtship of Harry Truman and Bess Wallace Truman. Includes discussion of their correspondence and a copy of a 1911 letter "in which he asks a very surprising question: 'Speaking of diamonds would you wear a solitaire one on your left hand should I get it?" They were not married until 1919. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Prologue magazine. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2007/winter/proposal.html Topics: Correspondence, Presidents by Name Last updated Feb 2, 2009 Fred O. Seibel (1886-1968) Editorial Cartoonist, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Images of correspondence to Fred Seibel from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, John L. Lewis, James Hoffa, Barry Goldwater, and Harry Byrd. "All of them found themselves as subjects in his political cartoons and wrote Seibel asking him for copies of the originals. Scanned images of the cartoons that are referred to in the letters are also shown." From the Department of Special Collections and Archives, Virginia Commonwealth University. http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/exhibit/seibel1.html Topics: Artists, Arts and Humanities, Correspondence, Media, Media, Politics, Presidents by Name Last updated Dec 15, 2003 Harry S Truman National Historic Site
Website for the Independence, Missouri, home where Harry S. Truman lived between 1919 and 1972 and for the Truman Farm Home in Grandview, Missouri. Features historical essays, images of artifacts, a link to an exhibition about the 33rd U.S. president, and curriculum materials. Also includes a small exhibit about preserving the home, and general information about visiting the historic site. From the National Park Service (NPS). http://www.nps.gov/hstr/index.htm Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated Oct 9, 2009 Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
This complex site links visitors to many aspects of Truman's presidency and life. Find his daily calendar of presidential appointments, pictures from his military and personal life, analyses of his important decisions, oral histories, online documents, descriptions of archival collections, and exhibits. Includes educational resources and information on the Korean War and World War II. Searchable. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Museums by Place: United States, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Nov 20, 2008 Hoover Online!
"The goal of this site is to furnish high school students with direct access to materials held at the Hoover Presidential Library." The site features biographical overviews of Herbert Hoover and his wife, and lesson plans about important episodes in their lives. These include their Chinese tour, Belgian relief, building of Hoover Dam, "440 historical documents pertaining to President Hoover and the Depression," and Hoover and Harry Truman. All pages include scanned photographs, letters, and documents. http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/ Topics: Correspondence, Photograph Collections: History, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Feb 2, 2005 Korea + 50: No Longer Forgotten
"This page is a joint project between the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries developed to provide access to Korean War materials related to the two administrations occupying the White House during that period." Find exhibits, photographs, primary sources, timelines, documents, oral histories, and much more. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/korea/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Nonfiction by Genre, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Jul 27, 2004 Missouri History: Harry S Truman
This illustrated article provides biographical details about Harry S. Truman, the 33rd U.S. president. Also includes a link to the exhibit about the 1948 presidential election: "Upset! Truman's Whistle Stop Campaign Remembered." From the Missouri State Archives. http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/truman.asp Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated May 3, 2007 National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
"The nation's record keeper," holding "only those Federal records that are judged to have continuing value." The website shows just some of the photographs, maps, charts, and other treasures in the collection. http://www.archives.gov/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Presidents by Name Last updated May 29, 2009 Presidential Libraries
This site includes a history of the Presidential Library system, a description of holdings, and links to the sites for the libraries of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Bill Clinton; and for Richard Nixon materials. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/ Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Presidents by Name, The United States Presidency Last updated Jul 30, 2005 Presidential Recordings Program
"Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents [Franklin D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon] from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials" Also includes topical pages using conversations. From the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. http://millercenter.org/academic/presidentialrecordings Topics: Presidents by Name Last updated Dec 6, 2008 |
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