An unpopular Democratic president campaigns for re-election, dogged by inflation, domestic supply shortages and fears of World War III — and does so as he is stymied by Republicans in Congress and ...

Harry S. Truman’s stunning, come-from-behind victory in the 1948 presidential election has encouraged frissons of optimism for long-shot candidates ever since. Walter Mondale invoked the 1948 election ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence opened a brand new exhibit this week. It’s called, “Upset! Harry Truman and the 1948 election.” And, it ...

The Independence Democrat faced not only Thomas E. Dewey, but two other challengers. And polls said he was in trouble. The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum Every day or so another report ...

Miranda Elliott, museum technician with the Truman Library, and exhibit contractor Chris Holle look over one of the displays while setting up the library's special exhibit 'UPSET! Harry Truman and the ...

Three score and ten years ago, on the morning of Oct. 14, 1948, President Harry Truman made a brief appearance in Mankato as part of his national “Whistle-stop” campaign tour. He arrived at Mankato’s ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - On Nov. 3, 1948 — 75 years ago — President Harry Truman was celebrating a victory in what was the Election Day upset of the century. The erroneous Chicago Daily Tribune ...

MANKATO — President Donald Trump’s campaign stop Monday in Mankato brings to mind another presidential stop that made history. On Oct. 14, 1948, President Harry Truman made a brief appearance here as ...

“Historians will tell you history does not repeat itself. There are unique circumstances in every context,” says Kurt Graham, director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in ...

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President Harry Truman’s visit to Baltimore during his 1948 campaign for election was casual by today’s standards. He arrived by train at Pennsylvania Station. Railroad officials told the public not ...

As part of the discussion about democratic socialism and the past, present, and future of the Donkey Party, Josh Marshall made this interesting comment: [M]ost of what is now branded “democratic ...