Letter from Secretary of War Henry Stimson to President Truman, informing him about the atomic bomb. April 24, 1945 Dear Mr. President, I think it is very important that I should have a talk with ...

“In Truman's 82 days as vice president, he didn't get a single intelligence briefing,” Cohen tells American Experience. “He'd only met FDR twice. He never stepped foot in the map room where ...

When Hunt announced the completion of his American Experience mission, he received acclaim from friends, family and people he doesn’t know personally. GBH shared his post on X, formerly known as ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will open “Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” this fall at its museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition, the first major retrospective of ...

The African American Experience During World War II Neil A. Wynn, . . Rowman & Littlefield, $26.95 (163pp) ISBN 978-1-44220-016-6 ...

THE TRIALS OF HARRY S. TRUMAN The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953. By Jeffrey Frank. In a happier and perhaps more democratic era, the belief prevailed that every American ...

Truman, post-World War II, was determined to modernize American military and intelligence capabilities. The DOD and the Central Intelligence Agency were key to Truman’s modernization.