Videos

NPR’s Steve Drummond told the story of Senator Harry Truman’s bipartisan investigation of corruption during the World War II defense build-up. The author built his account on the records of …

David Von Drehle’s neighbor in a Kansas City suburb was a centenarian named Charlie White, whose life is also the story of the last American century -- from the Jazz Age to the smartphone. H…

Time Magazine senior correspondent Simon Shuster talked about the life and political career of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This event was held at Unity Temple on The Plaza in Kans…

Librarian of Congress' Carla Hayden hosted a conversation marking President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the United States military with Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. Her guests …

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog was among those marking President Harry Truman’s 1948 decision to recognize the newly created State of Israel. The Truman Library Institute host…

A panel discussed civil rights and diversity and inclusion in the military at a symposium hosted by the Truman Library Institute. Topics included challenges ahead for the branches, affirmati…

President Biden delivered remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium, hosted by the Truman Library Institute in Washington, D.C. He touted the accomplishments of minorities in the military…

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, President Biden’s pick to be the next Joint Chiefs of Staff chair, spoke about civil rights and diversity and inclusion in the military duri…

The story of the 33rd president’s education was told in the newly renovated Harry Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri. He was the only 20th century president who…

Sculptor Tom Corbin talked about creating a statue of President Harry Truman that is designed for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, created th…

Military historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman’s World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Instit…

Kansas City Public Library director John Herron talked about Harry Truman’s early political career, the Kansas City Pendergast political machine, and a 1926 offer to the future president to …

Biographer A.J. Baime recalled the life of civil rights activist Walter F. White, who was the executive secretary of the NAACP in the mid-1900s as well as a reporter who “passed” as white to…

Former U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill who, like Harry Truman, served in the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Missouri, recounted her predecessor’s national political career. This program is par…

Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up within 180 miles of each other in America’s heartland. But these two-term presidents and one-time allies diverged politically during the cont…

Author Candice Millard and Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Crosby Kemper III talked about Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech with Washington Post columnist Davi…

Author and journalist Evan Thomas talked about the impact and legacy of U.S. diplomat George Kennan and his “Long Telegram” with Truman Presidential Library director Kurt Graham. On February…

Education director Mark Adams showed items in the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum collection that tell the story of President Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs, including…

Michael Neiberg -- war studies chair at the U.S. Army War College -- talked about the personalities and stakes involved at the 1945 Potsdam Conference convened near the end of World War II. …

Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, spoke about the events leading up to Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. He talked about American and Ja…