After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...

David McCullough wrote the essay on Harry Truman for the book Character Above ... Mr. McCullough is the author of a highly acclaimed biography of the 33rd President of the United States entitled ...

USS Harry Truman was supporting the Navy’s defensive operations against the Iranian-backed Houthis near Yemen.

Susan Pogany has proof. In a scrapbook in Pogany’s house is a 1949 letter President Harry S. Truman wrote to her grandfather, Sam Roberts, a well-known Kansas City-area doctor who was the ear ...

The United States used fighter jets to conduct an airstrike against Islamic State targets in Somalia on Saturday, according ...