INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The city of Independence, Missouri, celebrated President Harry S. Truman's 140th birthday on Saturday with a new statue, free photo exhibit and other events. Truman is a hometown ...

President Harry S. Truman holds up a now-infamous Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced a Truman defeat on Nov. 4, 1948. After a short ...

A mural at Independence Square shows Independence's origins as a trail head for westward travel. The city of Independence, Missouri was famously the starting point for the Santa Fe, California and ...

Harry S. Truman, the 33rd U.S. president, is being celebrated this year to mark the 75th anniversary of his inauguration. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, offers ...

TRAINING COURSE. IT IS THE PHOTO AND THE MOMENT THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER. THE BANNER ELECTION NIGHT NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM. 1948 THAT GOT IT WRONG. 75 YEARS AGO TOMORROW NIGHT, THIS WAS THE FRONT PAGE ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Both presidents had to step into an ungodly mess and take a tiger by the tail. Library ...

These days, Venezuela can feel like a world away from the Ozarks. But one summer in the late 1940s, it was front and center ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Recently, a friend said she thought Joe Biden was the best president of her adult ...