What's New

Last updated: October 29, 2009

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October 2009

• Oral history: Charles Burton Marshall
• Eight letters from Bess W. Truman to Harry S. Truman, July 1923 and July 1925. For further information, please e-mail the archives staff at truman.reference@nara.gov or call the Research Room at 816-268-8272.

September 2009

• Finding aids: Guggenheim Productions, Inc.; Ben Nicks; E. Vernice Anderson
• Oral Histories: Dillon S. Myer

August 2009

• Finding aid: Neild Somdal Associates

July 2009

• Oral histories: W. Averell Harriman; John Snyder
• Finding aids: Sol Stolowy; Lowell Mason; William Radner; Roy Bessey; Waldemar Nielsen; Howard Sachs

June 2009

• Finding aids: Motion Picture Guide (periodically updated with shot lists); Robert L. Garner; William Auman; Gil Shaw; World War II Collection; Niles W. Bond; George Brownell; Edward Bowles

May 2009

• Sound recordings: Screen Gems (MP2002-480--MP2002-516)
• Finding aid: Matthew Connelly

April 2009

• Finding aids: Ted Sanders; John Coppock; RG 130: Records of White House Office; Everett Bellows
• Oral histories: Walter Judd; John H. Chiles

March 2009

• Finding aids: Robert P. Weatherford; Harry S. Truman Statue Committee; Richard Beckman

February 2009

• Finding aids: Fred Wallace; George Porterfield Gates; Madge Gates Wallace; Newly Declassified Documents; Atomic Bomb Collection

2008: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

December 2008

• Oral History: James R. Fuchs

November 2008

• Oral history: William Fletcher Warren
• Finding Aids: George Collins; British Broadcasting Corporation interview transcripts; Frank Rucker Papers

October 2008

• Finding Aids: Alice Pollard; Lewis Rathgeber

September 2008

• Gail Halvorsen and Roger Miller video added to website
• Trivia Contest information added
• New lesson plans added

August 2008

• Spanish language educational activities added
• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aids: RG 269; Trinity Episcopal Church Records
• Folder Title Lists: Air Policy Commission; Committee on Foreign Aid; Scientific Research Board
• Finding Aids: Truman and Holmes Families
• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aids: James Pendergast; RG 46 (Bills Introduced by Truman); Sally Cahalan
• Oral histories: David Stowe; David Stowe; Charles S. Murphy; Robert R. Nathan
• Folder Title Lists: Harry S. Truman Statue Committee; Newbold Morris; RG 11 (Executive Orders); RG 46 (Foreign Relations); RG 59; RG 147; RG 273; RG 338; Alben Barkley

July 2008

• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aids: Arthur Ginsburg; Joseph F. Healey; John K. Hulston; RG 59 (Foreign Relations series); Robert S. Raymond; Irenee Juno; Truman Anniversary Concert, Inc.
• Finding Aids: Thomas Van Sant; Charles McGuire; Neil Brooks; Joseph D. Lawrence; William F. Finan; Clarence J. McCormick; Royd R. Sayers
• Oral histories: George Elsey; E.H. Van Der Beugel; Robert B. Landry; John W. Snyder
• Folder Title Lists: Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion; Missouri Basin Survey Commission; Commission on Universal Training; Advisory Committee on Management Improvement; Advisory Committee on the Merchant Marine; Airport Commission; Commission on Immigration and Naturalization; Commission on Migratory Labor; Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights; RG 15; RG 59 (condolence books); RG 59 (1948 Election); RG 80; RG 130 (accounts, personnel, and purchases); RG 130 (redesigning of Presidential Seal); RG 330; John D. Russell; Joel D. Wolfsohn; Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation; Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces; Materials Policy Commission; Water Resources Policy Commission; RG 274; RG 411

June 2008

• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aids: Bruce D. Forsyth; Forrest McCluney; Truman Genealogy
• Oral histories: Mary Jane Truman; Randall Jessee; Roy McGhee; Grover W. Ensley; John R. Steelman
• Finding aids: John Allison; Robert Asher; Missouri National Guard; James K. Knudson
• Folder title lists: Jackson County (MO) Recorder's Office; National Committee Against Limiting the Presidency; National Security Committee; RG 46 (Truman Committee); Neild-Somdal Assoc.; RG 11; RG 51; RG 64 (Plan for Truman's funeral); National Aircraft War Production Council; Thirty-Fifth Division Association; RG 183; RG 120 (35th Division); RG 120 (General Headquarters); RG 87; RG 250; RG 260; RG 296; RG 313; RG 333; RG 407 (Army Unit Diaries); Edwin G. Nourse

May 2008

• Finding aid: Mary Wallace Papers
• Oral histories: Donald Dawson; Stanley Fike; Fred L. Truman; Elmer Staats; Wallace Graham

April 2008

• Subject Guide: Immigration
• Oral history: Tom C. Clark
• Folder title lists: Sherman Minton; Records of the Cooperative League of the United States
• Finding aids: Helen Wallace; Arthur Paul; Lloyd Graybar Papers; Martin L. Friedman

March 2008

• Finding aids: Records of the Harry S. Truman Library, Inc.; Henry G. Bennett

February 2008

• Executive Orders

January 2008

• Formerly donor-restricted materials: approximately 1,800 pages from the Family Correspondence File of the Greta Kempton Papers
• Finding aid: David D. Lloyd
• Folder Title Lists: John A. Short; Jerome K. Walsh; J. Weldon Jones; Harry C. Trelogan; L. Metcalfe Walling

2007: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

2007

• Edwin W. Pauley Papers released on December 3, 2007
• Screen Gems Collection--new films released on December 3, 2007
• Additional documents from the George Elsey Papers released on December 3, 2007
• Oral history: William K. Divers

November 2007

• Finding aids: Lloyd C. Stark; Walter H. Maloney and Madeline F. Maloney 
• Folder Title Lists: Post-Presidential Papers; Michael J. Galvin; John W. Snyder; Paul G. Hoffman; William C. Dixon; Edward H. Foley, Jr.
• Oral Histories: Albert H. Moseman; Philip D. Reister; Eugene Donnelly and Edward Meisburger; Lord Oliver Franks; Paul "Mike" Westwood; William J. Randall; James W. "Bud" Porter; Paul W. Ager; Harry H. Vaughan

October 2007

• Folder Title Lists: James E. Webb; Reginald S. Dean; Stuart A. Rice; Philip M. Kaiser; C. Girard Davidson; Holmes Baldridge; White House Scrapbooks; Oscar R. Ewing
• Finding Aids: George D. Braden; Philip M. Stern; James S. Earley; Jack B. Tate; John T. Koehler; Emile Despres; Edward M. Glick
• Oral Histories: Thomas C. Blaisdell, Jr.; Isador Lubin; Gustav Preglau; Harold H. Stuart

September 2007

• Oral Histories: Harold M. Slater; Walter B. Menefee; John H. Tolan, Jr.
• Folder Title List: Charles Sawyer
• Folder Title List: Harold Stein
• Finding aid: John P. McEnery
• Folder Title List: Will L. Clayton
• Folder Title Lists: Harry S. Truman Papers: Permanent File; Social Office Files
• Folder Title Lists: Allen Weinstein; Douglas G. Wright; Francis O. Wilcox
• Newly Declassified Documents: approximately 1,400 newly available pages of material primarily from the Harry S. Truman Papers
• Folder Title List: William J. Patterson; Herbert J. Waters
• Finding Aid: Lyle F. Watts
• Freedom To Serve: The Report of the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
• Folder Title Lists: Harry S. Truman Papers: Public Opinion Mail Files; White House Official Reporter Files; White House Records Office Files; White House Telegraph Office Files; White House Telephone Office Files

August 2007

• Folder Title Lists: Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Office of the President's Correspondence Secretary Files; Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Office of Social Correspondence Files
• Folder Title List: John C. Young
• Subject Guide: Environmental Policy
• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aid: A.L.M. Wiggins; William D. Hassett; RG 21: Records of District Court of the United States
• Finding Aids: James Carey; Harold Slater

July 2007

• Finding Aids: Bernard L.Gladieux; John C. Houston; Edward B. Lockett; Record Group 269

June 2007

• Finding Aid: Harry Barnard
• Accretion: Francis W. Williams
• Finding Aid: Lou E. Holland

May 2007

• Research File: Harry Truman's World War I
• Finding Aid: Independence (MO) School District
• Folder Title Lists: Albert Huntington; Frank Roberts, Charles Thayer

April 2007

• Folder Title List: J. Howard McGrath
• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aids: Harry Truman Browne; Raphael Green

March 2007

• Finding Aid: Mary Ethel Noland
• Folder Title Lists: Ivy Duggan; Paul H. Griffith; Stephen Mitchell
• Newly Available for Research: Finding Aid: Martha Ann Swoyer
• Finding Aid: Colgan & Bruner Families Papers
• Finding Aid: Philleo Nash

January 2007

• Formerly donor-restricted pages from the Stephen J. Spingarn Oral Histories: 413, 805-854, 855-858, 1057-1059
• Finding Aids: Mark Clark; Eric Fowler; Ted Sanders; Frances Satterfield

2006: January | February| March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December

2006

• Folder Title List: Frank McNaughton and Walter Hehmeyer
• Folder Titles Lists: William & Sophie Brophy; Mark Clark; Robert Garner; Francis Matthews; Charles Murphy; Louis Truman; Thomas Van Sant
• Finding Aid: Harry B. Price

November 2006

• Folder Title Lists: Oscar Chapman; Milton Katz; Joseph Mehl; Raymond Smith
• Subject Guide: World War I

October 2006

• To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights
• Finding Aid: John L. McKee; Earl D. Johnson; Joseph Sweeney
• Folder Title List: John Gibson

September 2006

• Finding Aid: Sam Wear
• Folder Title Lists: Robert Freer; Charles Hulten; John Melby; H. Graham Morison; Paul A. Porter; George J. Richards; Truman & Holmes Families; Benedict Zobrist
• Oral Histories: Gerald Pulley; Harold Seidman

August 2006

• Folder Title List: Stephen J. Spingarn
• Finding Aid: Luther T. Hoffman
• Folder Title List: Wallace J. Campbell; Clifton and Margaret Truman Daniel Papers
• Oral History: Pansy Perkins and Pauline Sims
• Newly Available Oral History: William T. Golden
• Folder Title Lists: James Boyd; Philip Brooks; Tom Clark; Robert Day; George Elsey; Reathel Odum; Harry Rosenfield

July 2006

• Oral History: Max Lowenthal
• Finding Aid: Benedict P. Cottone
• Oral History: John P. McEnery
• Newly Available Collection: Maurice Solomon

June 2006

• Newly Available Collection: William Janssen
• Newly Available Collection: Mariano Floresca
• Finding Aid: Joseph Coppock
• Newly Available Collection: Leonard Lyons
• Finding Aids: Nathaniel Davis, Roy Peel
• Oral Histories: Lowell B. Mason; Frank Southard; John Strode
• Finding Aids: Committee for the Marshall Plan; Ralph Flynt; George Marquis; Frank Pace; Walter Salant; Harry Vaughan

May 2006

• Oral Histories: Paul Daniels; Marvin Jones; Herbert Maletz
• Subject Guide to archival materials relating to Native Americans
• Finding Aids: Herschel Johnson; Victor Messall; Richard Neustadt; Clarence Osthagen; Anthony Panuch; Richard Patterson; John Redding; Alfred Schindler; John Sumner; Howard Trivers
• Finding Aid: Benjamin Hardy

April 2006

• Finding Aids: Lynn Edminster; James Hendrick; Howland Sargeant
• Oral Histories: George Meader; John Meador
• Finding Aid: Samuel Rosenman
• Oral History - Newly Available for Research: Edwin Pauley
• Oral Histories: William Cunningham; William Hopkins; Walter Salant
• Finding Aids: Frederick Lawton; Jesse MacKnight; Francis Whitehair
• Finding Aid: Charles S. Murphy Files
• Finding Aids: Thomas Lynch; George Richards; Theodore Tannenwald
• Finding Aids: Thomas Finletter; Harry Howard; Edgar Johnson; John Kenney; Dan Kimball
• Finding Aids: Arthur Gardiner; Lawrence Hartwig; Paul Herzog; Lowell Mason; John McGohey; Sumner Pike; Sidney Sherwood; Walter Washington

March 2006

• Finding Aids: George Robinson; J. Thomas Schneider; Joseph Sweeney; Stuart Symington; George Taylor; Edward Tenenbaum; Ralph Truman; Robert Turner; Frank Waring; Sam Wear; Horace Weihmiller
• Finding Aids: James Hill; Bryn Hovde; Anne Laughlin; Edwin Locke; Westray Long; Louis McCabe; Sister Patrick Maher; Henry Reiff
• Finding Aids: Raymond Foley; James Foskett; Abijah Fox; Harry Frantz; Hugh Fulton
• Finding Aids: Warner Gardner; Robert Ginsburgh; Henry Grady; Stanton Griffis; Harold Gosnell; August Hahn; Ken Hechler; Frieda Hennock; Melvin Hildreth
• Finding Aids: Graves Erskine; Charles Fahy; D. Alan Strachan; Jack Tate; Allen Wagner; Monrad Wallgren; Edward Webster; A.L.M. Wiggins; Ralph Will; Alanson Willcox
• Finding Aids: Ted Sanders; Frances Satterfield; Royd Sayers; Harold Slater; Bryce Smith; Sidney Souers; Ralph Stohl
• Finding Aids: Walter Radius; William Radner; Harold Robinson
• Finding Aids: Lewis Parks; Arthur Paul; Roy Peel; Oliver Peterson; Alice Pollard
• Finding Aids: John T. Koehler; William McCauley; Clarence McCormick; Harry McDonald; John McEnery; Charles McGuire; John McKee; Robert Maxwell; Edward Miller; Joseph O'Connell; John O'Gara
• Finding Aids: Lansing Lamont; Dillard Lasseter; Joseph Lawrence; Edward Lockett; Victor Longstreet; George Marquis
• Finding Aids: John C. Houston; Kenneth R. Iverson; Joseph M. Jones; Milton P. Kayle; Nathaniel S. Keith; James K. Knudson
• Finding Aids: Lou E. Holland; Roman L. Horne
• Finding Aids: M.R. Evans; William Finan, Elmer Gertz; Bernard Gladieux; William Golden; William Hassett; Luther Hoffman

February 2006

• Finding Aid: Charter Heslep
• Finding Aid: Dean G. Acheson

January 2006

• Finding Aid: Jesse M. Donaldson
• Oral History: Joseph E. Johnson
• Finding Aid: Russell P. Andrews

2005: January | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | NovemberDecember 2005

• Oral History - Newly Available for Research: Raphael Green
• Oral Histories: J. William Theis; Edward F. Thelen; J.C. Turner; William S. Tyson

November 2005

• Finding Aids: William Kitchen; Oscar Peace
• Finding Aid: Henry A. Bundschu
• Oral Histories: James E. Dodson; Robert L. Irvin; Mize Peters
• Finding Aids: James V. Fitzgerald; Richard C. Holbrooke; Willa Mae Roberts
• Finding Aids: S. Everett Gleason; Dale M. Hellegers; George J. Schoeneman

October 2005

• Oral Histories: Gould Lincoln; Edwin A. Locke; Harold G. Robinson
• Finding Aids: Roy Blough; John Coppock
• Oral Histories: Wilbur Sparks; Philip D. Sprouse; A. J. Stephens; Robert L. Sweeney; Ivan B. White; Keith Wilson Jr.
• Finding Aid: Dale E. Doty

September 2005

• Finding Aids: Merwin L. Bohan; Honore Catudal; Myron M. Cowen
• Finding Aids: Joseph D. Coppock; Congressional Quarterly Records; Nathaniel P. Davis; Harry Easley
• Oral Histories: Theodore Christidis; Ashley Clarke; Cuthbert Clegg; David L. Cole; Emilio Collado; Greta Kempton
• Finding Aids: Stanley Andrews; Roy F. Bessey; Harold L. Enarson;Grover Ensley
• Finding Aids: Ralph Davies; Jesse Donaldson; John Dunlap; James Earley; L. Laszlo Ecker-Racz

August 2005

• Finding Aid: Gordon Gray
• Oral Histories: Raymond Vernon; Erik Von Sydow
• Finding Aid: William W. Parsons
• Oral History: Phillip W. Voltz
• Finding Aids: Arnold Crank; John E. Hopkins
• Finding Aid: John D. Clark
• Oral Histories: L.L. Bucklew; Anthony A. Buford
• Oral Histories: William M. Blair; Henri L. Bonnet
• Finding Aid: Peggy Watts
• Finding Aid: RG 407--Military Personnel File of Harry S. Truman
• Oral History: Klas E. Book; Frederick J. Bowman

July 2005

• Finding Aids: Charles Darlington; Emile Despres
• Oral History: Oliver Carter
• Finding Aid: Charles Anderson
• Finding Aid: George McGhee

June 2005

• Oral History: John Campbell
• Finding Aid: Spencer Quick; Roy W. Harper
• Oral Histories: Henry Reiff; Francis Russell
• Finding Aids: Frances M. Schlichenmaier
• Oral Histories: McKinley Wooden; Carroll Kenworthy; Frank Kelly
• Finding Aid: Taylor Atha; Joseph H. Short and Beth Campbell Short
• Finding Aids: Robert M. Gilmore Papers; Edward V. Condon Papers
• Oral Histories: John Cady; Charles Curry; Henry Deimel; Mary L. Delozier; Felix deWeldon; John S. Dickey; Michael J. Dux; Edwin Nourse; Frederick Osborn
• Finding Aids: Rose Conway; Francis Brassor; Henry G. Bennett; Thomas C. Blaisdell; Ralph Block; Eleanor Bontecou; Gordon Clapp; John Clark
• Revised and Updated Subject Guide: Jewish Refugees, the Recognition of Israel, and U.S.-Israeli Relations

May 2005

• Finding Aids: Edward Bowles; William Boyle; Neil Brooks; George Brownell; W. Kenneth Bunce; Beatrice Burgoon; James Carey; Donald Carpenter
• Finding Aids: Wilson Beale; Everett Bellows; Myron Black; Roscoe Bell; G. Lyle Belsley
• Oral Histories: Roy Harper; Walter Hehmeyer; Mr & Mrs George Holt; Roman Horne; Harry Howard
• Finding Aids: Thomas Atkeson; William Auman; Paul Baade; Max Ball; Harry Barnard; Irston Barnes; William Batt
• Screen Gems Collection - new material released.
• Finding Aids: Mark Andrews; Harry Anslinger; Edwin Arnold; Robert Asher

April 2005

• Oral Histories: Jacob Beam; Louis Bean; John Begg; Jack Bell; Thomas Bendorf; Frances Bennett; Thomas Cabot
• Finding Aid: S.J. Ray Papers
• Finding Aid: George L. Warren Papers

March 2005

• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Subject Guide
• Finding Aid: Dick Dickson
• Finding Aid: William Rigdon Papers
• Community Services League

January 2005

• Documents relating to Bess Truman

2004: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | NovemberDecember 2004

• Oral Histories: Leland Barrows; Lewis Barringer; William L. Batt, Jr.; Gerard Bauer Online Gift Shop launched
• Oral Histories: Sam Anch; Willis Armstrong; Hoyt Walkup & Russell Babb; George Baker
• Finding Aids: Lawrence Hafstad; Frederick Osborn

November 2004

• Oral History: Ted Marks
• Oral History: Paul Nitze
• Oral History: Ruby Jane Hall

October 2004

• Truman Papers Finding Aid: Ken Hechler Files
• Finding Aid: James Twohy
• Oral History: Robert Goodwin
• Finding Aid: Harry S. Truman Family, Business and Personal Papers
• Oral History: Lincoln Gordon

September 2004

• Truman Papers Finding Aid: David Bell Files
• Subject Guide: Independence and Jackson County, Missouri
• Oral Histories: Grover Ensley; Merrill Gay; Harry Easley; William Edwards; Harold Enarson
• Finding Aids: David Bell; Mary Ethel Noland
• Finding Aids: Tom Evans; Clinton Anderson; Edward McKim; Paul Aiken; John Allison
• Oral Histories: Lorain Cunningham; Josiah Dubois, Jr. Honore Catudal; Joseph Coppock
• Finding Aid: Russell Adams
• Truman Papers Finding Aids: Gordon Gray Files; Raymond Zimmerman Files; Martin Friedman Files; George Schoeneman Files; Edwin Locke Files; James Fitzgerald Files
• Finding Aid: Maple Harl Papers
• Oral History: John Steelman; George Tames; John Cabot
• Truman Papers Finding Aid: David Lloyd Files

August 2004

• Oral Histories: Stephen Slaughter; Roberta Barrows; Ralph Block; Welbern Bowman
• Truman Papers Finding Aid: Charles Murphy Files
• Oral History: George McColm
• Truman Papers Finding Aid: President Secretary's Files
• Oral Histories: Robert W. Barnett; Regna Vanatta; George Warren; Margaret Weddle; Maxine Williams
• Finding Aid: Robert C. Goodwin

July 2004

• Oral Histories: Michael Cardozo; Anna Lord Strauss; James Sundquist
• Finding Aid: Harold Smith
• Finding Aid: John Stewart Service and Charles E. Rhetts Papers

June 2004

• Oral Histories: Georgia May Schwabe; Nicholas G. Thacher
• Special Subject Guide on Civil Rights
• Oral Histories: George E. Allen; E. Clifton Daniel; Baron Jean-Charles Snoy; Willard L. Thorp; Benson E. L. Timmons III; The Truman White House

May 2004

• Oral Histories: James Rowe; Ted Sanders; Joseph Satterthwaite
• Gift shop updated
• Oral Histories: Neale Roach; Sir Eric Roll
• Finding Aid: Lina Adams Papers
• Oral Histories: Henry Nichol; Franklin Proctor; Edward Pruden; Frederick Reinhardt; Stuart Rockwell; Lord Robertson
• Oral Histories: Harry E. Murphy; Roger Ockrent; Victor Swyden & George Owen
• Finding Aid: Matthew J. Connelly Papers

April 2004

• Finding Aid: H. H. Halvorson Papers
• Oral Histories: Elbert Mathews; Raymond Miller; Jules Moch
• Oral Histories: W. McNeil Lowry; John Maktos; Giovanni Malagodi; Spyros Markezinis
• Oral Histories: O. J McDiarmid; J Noel Macy; August Maffry; Henry Van Zile Hyde

March 2004

• Harry S. Truman Papers: Robert B. Landry Files
• Accretion Opened: Lorain H. Cunningham Papers
• Finding Aid: Mary Shaw Branton PapersHarry Easley Papers accretion
• Finding Aid: Colgan and Bruner Families Papers
• Oral Histories: John Leddy; Fred Lee; Vere Leigh; Geoffrey Lewis; Shaw Livermore; Katie Louchheim

• Online Photo Database
• Harry S. Truman Papers: Clark M. Clifford Files
• Finding Aids: Rufus Burrus; Frank McNaughton
• Oral Histories: J. Burke Knapp; Milton Kronheim; Bruce Lambert; David Lawrence

• Finding Aid: Eleanor Piacenza
  Finding Aids: Charles Knox; Dillon Myer
  Oral Histories: Frank Fetter; H. H. Halvorson; Etienne Hirsch; May Howard; John Hulston; Willard Hunter
  Oral Histories: Arthur Flemming; William Foster; Monroe Friedman; Durward Gilmore; Raymond Goldsmith; Leroy Stinebower
• RG 64: Records of the Harry S. Truman Library
• RG 391: Records of U.S. Regular Army Mobile Units
• Oral Histories: Mr & Mrs John Earp; Mark Ethridge; Jose Ferrer; Sir Frank Figgures; Dennis Fitzgerald

• Oral History: Edward D. McKim

• Public Programs page updated
• Finding aids: George Allen; Melbourne Spector; John Jessup; Independence (MO) Schools
• Oral Histories: Eleanor Bontecou; Edgar Hinde; Philip Lagerquist; Samuel Montague; Floyd, Ricketts; Robert Riggs; Arthur Ringwalt; James Ruffin; Charles Saltzman; Conrad Snow; Antoinette Stewart; Erling Wikborg
• Oral Histories: J. Leonard Reinsch; Constantine Tsaldaris; Eelco Van Kleffens
• Oral Histories: Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol; Alexander, Baron Von Susskind; Hans-Georg Sachs; Povl Westphall

• Oral Histories: Herve De Gruben; Constantinos Doxiadis; Knut Getz Wold
• Oral Histories: Millard Cass; David Morse; Konrad Nordahl; Guiseppe Pella; John Pesmazoglu
• Public Programs pages updated

• Oral Histories: William D. Hassett; Mrs. Walter Hehmeyer; Livingston Merchant; Leonard Miall
• Finding Aid: James P. Aylward
• Staff Phone Directory added to web site
• Finding Aids: Jacob Arvey; John Barriere; Frank Johnson
• Oral Histories: Joseph Feeney; Donald Hansen; Fisher Howe
• Finding Aids: Fred Canfil Papers; D. Maynard Phelps Papers
• Oral Histories: Martin Friedman; Warner Gardner

• Oral Histories: Edmund Hall-Patch; Halvard M. Lange; Franco Mattei
• Finding Aid: John Alison
• 1947 Truman Diary Open for Research
• Presidential Medals and Awards Subject Guide
• Oral Histories: C. Girard Davidson; Mildred Dryden; John W. Jones; Harry Vaughan

• Finding Aid: Sound Recordings of Truman Speeches and Remarks
• Oral Histories: Dale E. Doty; James I. Loeb
• Oral Histories: Per Haekkerup; Thorkil Kristensen; Durward Sandifer; Mrs. Joseph Short; John L. Sullivan; Walter Trohan; Roger Tubby
• Oral Histories: Jane Taylor Lacy
• Finding Aid: N.T. Veatch

• Newly Declassified Documents: approximately 1,100 newly available pages of material from the Harry S. Truman Papers
• Oral Histories: Wesley McCune; Jack McFall; John Melby
• Finding Aid: Verne E. Chaney Papers
• Screen Gems collection - Film & Sound clips featuring President Truman

• Daniel F. Cleary finding aid
• Oral Histories: Andrew Biemiller; Konrad Adenauer; Anthony Bernaris; Milton Katz; Cornelius Mara

• Oral History: Edgar Faris
• Oral History: Francis Wilcox
• Kansas City Celebrates American Heritage
• Black History Month teaching activities
• Gift shop pages updated

• Finding Aid: John R. Steelman
• Finding Aid: India Edwards
• Oral History: Philleo Nash
• Truman's addresses on the surrender of Germany and Japan. Both have teaching activities.
• Truman's Address to the Armed Forces on April 17, 1945; this is accompanied by a Teaching Activity
• World War II Posters teaching activity
• Steel Strike teaching activity
• Desegregation of the armed forces teaching activity
• National defense teaching activity
• Video library has numerous new titles
• Oral History: Jess Larson
• Finding Aid: American Institute of Public Opinion Records
• Oral History: Carleton Kent

• Oral History: John A. Kennedy
• Finding Aid: Ellen Clayton Garwood
• Oral History: R. Allen Griffin

• Truman's Travel Logs
• Finding Aid: Richard Cull, Jr. Papers

• Oral History: Richard Cull, Jr.
• Truman Papers: Joseph Short Files
• Oral History: William Draper
• Public Programs pages updated
• Museum Exhibit schedule updated

• Truman Papers: Fleur Fenton Files
• Oral History: Arthur C. Ringland
• Finding Aids: A. Devitt Vanech Papers & Vic H. Housholder Papers
• Oral Histories: Robert Eakens; Perry Hardin
• Accretion to the David H. Stowe Papers

• Oral History: Dirk Stikker
• Oral History: O. Edmund Clubb
• Oral History: Henry Byroade
• Truman Papers: Spencer Quick Files
• Oral History: David E. Bell

• Accretion to the Frank N. Roberts Papers
• Oral History: Louis Truman
• Oral Histories: John Abbott; Eugene Zuckert
• Finding Aid: Edward P. Meisburger Papers

• Student research file: Japanese Internment
• Oral Histories: Richard Bissell; Thomas Schneider
• Oral History: Ivan Lombardo

• Harry S. Truman Centennial Collection Records - Accretion
• Truman's Appointment Calendar added
• Oral History: Dennis Fitzgerald
• Truman cabinet information updated

February 2002

• Korean War Conference paper added
• Michael Gardner information added
• Accretion to the Milton Katz Papers now available for research
• Truman Papers: John T. Gibson Files
• Clayton Fritchey; Edwin Plowden; Russell Riley; William Sanders
• Patriots of War information added
• Bess Truman's birthday week information added
• Madam President information added
• Truman Library merges with Project Whistlestop

• Harry S. Truman: The Presidential Years online exhibit component added
• Wild About Harry information added
• White House Decision Center pages updated
• Public programs page updated

• Truman Christmas gift list added
• New puzzles added to Kids page
• Accretion to the Lowell B. Mason Papers
• Accretion to the Leon H. Keyserling Papers
• Oral Histories: Sir Roger Makins; Robert Marjolin
• Oral Histories: Robinson Newcomb; Frederick Nolting
• Transcripts and Recordings of Interviews for the 1984 BBC Radio Program, "The Buck Stops Here"
• Oral Histories: Edwin McCammon Martin; Edward Mason; H. Freeman Matthews

• Oral Histories: Merwin Bohan; Kenner Hertford; Carl McGowan; Thomas Mann
• Oral Histories: Richmond Keech; W. John Kenny; George McGhee
• Oral Histories: Gunther Harkort; Benjamin Hulley

• Oral Histories: Joseph Fox; Paul Griffith; Paul Hoffman
• Hoover Commission Special Subject Guide
• Oral Histories: Edward Folliard; Charles Greene; Daniel Goldy
• Gift shop prices updated
• Oral Histories: Edgar Cohen; William Edwards; Christine Hardy Little

• Oral Histories: David Bruce; Alexander Cairncross; Elbridge Durbrow; Thomas Finletter
• Papers of Dean Acheson, Memoranda of Conversations Index
• Oral Histories: Ben Hill Brown; Winthrop Brown
• Accretion to the Lawrence E. Hartwig Papers
• Oral Histories: Donald Blaisdell; Harding Bancroft; Edward Barrett; Raymond Brandt
• Kids page redesigned
• Volunteer & Intern page redesigned
• Gift shop pages redesigned
• Truman Chryslers pages updated

• Oral Histories: Samuel Brightman; Ewan Clague; Douglas Ensminger; Milton Kayle
• Finding Aid: Stanley Woodward
• Oral Histories: Henry Chiles; Tom C. Clark; Donald Dawson
• Finding Aids: Gerhard Colm; Clarence Decker; Cornelius Mara; Weizmann Archives
• Colonial Fashion Program information added
• Truman cabinet information added
• Truman's private tapes released

• Korean War portal page completed
• Wake Island section completed
• Oral History: Stephen Spingarn
• Public Programs page updated
• Education chart updated
• National History Day information updated
• Truman Library Institute Truman reminiscences added

• White House Renovation Photo Exhibit Information
• Oral Histories: Henry Chiles; John Franklin Carter; Samuel Rosenman
• Truman Library Institute planned giving pages updated
• Oral Histories: Clifford Matlock; Reathel Odum

• Museum Collection information added
• Printed Materials Collection information added
• Audio Visual Materials Collection updated
• Oral Histories: William Bray; W. Walton Butterworth
• Finding Aid: Mary Jane Truman Papers
• Oral History: Kenneth Birkhead
• Public Programs page updated
• White House Decision Center pilot program photos added
• Now Showing: Truman Decision Series Videos

• Oral Histories: Robert Nixon; John Barriere
• Oral Histories: Gaylon Babcock; Samuel Hayes; Wilfred McNeil; H.Graham Morison; William Rigdon
• 1948 Truman speech and teaching activity
• Merle Miller finding aid
• White House Decision Center pilot program photographs
• New renovation photographs
• Photographs added to Oral Histories

• Harry S. Truman Papers: Korean War File
• Oral Histories: Stanley Andrews; Sue Gentry; William Hastie
• Oral Histories: Ken Hechler; Robert Lovett
• Harry S. Truman Papers Staff Member and Office Files: Map Room File

• Wild About Harry event on April 26

• Oral Histories: Charles Kindleberger; Robert Walsh
• Oral Histories: Marx Leva; Walter Judd; Jonathan Daniels and John Ohly.
• Oral History Interviews: 33 oral history interviews, conducted by and relating to the Harry S Truman National Historic Site.
• Mount Vernon in Miniature. Exhibit information.
• Portraits of the Presidents from the National Portrait Gallery. Exhibit information.
• Educational programs page updated

• Oral Histories: Tom Evans; Stuart Symington
• Finding Aid: Truman Papers: Naval Aide to the President Files
• Finding Aid: David Wallace Papers
• Oral Histories: Frederick J. Lawton; Theodore Tannenwald; Arthur Young
• Finding Aid: Truman Papers: National Security Council Files
• Finding Aid: K. T. Keller Papers; President's Committee on Civil Rights (Record Group 220)
• Public programs updated

• Finding Aid: Harry S. Truman Papers: White House Press Release Files1945
• State of the Union Address (transcript and audio)
• Finding Aid: Curtis Tiernan papers
• Broder program cancelled
• Oral Histories: Theodore Achilles; R. Gordon Arneson; Earl Warren
• Museum store catalog updated

• Oral History Interview: Floyd Boring
• Oral History Interview: Gordon Gray
• Oral History Interview: Johannes Hoeber
• Oral History Interview: Fred Truman
• Public Programs calendar updated
• Finding Aid: Clark M. Clifford papers
• United Nations student research file

• Oral History Interview: Frank Holeman
• Oral History Interview: Edwin W. Wright
• Finding Aid: Eben A. Ayers
• More renovation photographs added

• Oral History Interview: Lucius Clay
• Oral History Interview: Oscar Chapman
• Oral History Interview: Matthew J. Connelly
• Oral History Interviews: Laurence Bunker & James Riddleberger
• More renovation photos added
• Teacher workshops: Korean War; Heroes
• Museum closed
• September renovation update
• Photographs added to various oral histories
• Photographs added to various finding aids

• New renovation movie clips added
• New renovation photographs added
• Oral History Interview: Francis H. Montgomery
• Finding Aids: Myron C. Taylor & Alonzo Fields
• Privacy statement added to web site Finding Aid:
• Jonathan Daniels papers
• White House Decision Center information sheet added
• Renovation photos added
• Teaching Activity: Truman Doctrine
• Finding Aid Richard E. Neustadt files
• Finding Aid: David H. Stowe files
• Finding Aid: J. Graham Parsons papers

• Oral History Interview: Rufus Burrus
• Charles G. Ross papers
• Mary Paxton Keeley papers
• Kids page updated
• Oral History Interview: Frank Pace Jr.
• Renovation photographs updated
• Truman Places section added to site
• Truman Trivia updated

• Oral History Interview: Leon Keyserling
• George M. Elsey files
• Oral History Interviews: Robert L. Dennison; Mary Ethel Noland
• New Oral History Interviews: Mary Paxton Keeley; Edwin W. Martin; Robert P. Weatherford Jr.
• New Oral History Interview: Stanley R. Fike
• Truman Chronologies updated
• News releases updated
• Harry S. Truman High School theme books

• White House Decision Center photographs
• Public Programs page updated
• Related Links page updated
• White House Decision Center pilot program
• Wild About Harry event update/thank you
• Oral History Interviews: Karl Bendetsen ; Sterling Goddard; Charles Murphy

• Renovation information added
• Education and History Day pages updated
• Archival research page updated
• Hare-Salisbury - documents (1918-1930) related to Truman and Jackson County during the Pendergast era. Partial collection photocopied from the complete Hare-Salisbury Collection at the Jackson County Historical Society, Independence, MO. Approx. 400 pages.
• Oral History Interviews: Bruce Clarke; Loy Henderson; Mrs W. L. C. Palmer; Robert Wyatt

March 2000

• Wild About Harry event
• Truman Library Institute page updated
• Finding Aid to Record Group 220, President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
• Korean War Student Research File
• Oral History Interviews: Eben Ayers; U. Alexis Johnson; Felix Larkin; Vernice Anderson
• Korean War subject guide
• Finding Aid: Earl J. McGrath Papers

February 2000

• Oral History Interviews: Allan Lightner
• Oral History Interviews: Mary Jane Truman; Nathan Becker
• Oral History Interviews: James Aylward; Lucius Battle; Niles Bond

January 2000

• Special events and room reservation information added
• Oral History indexes updated
• New Oral History Interviews: George Elsey; John Hickerson; Thomas Hart Benton.
  

1999 News: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

December 1999

• Federal Records page updated

November 1999

• Harry S. Truman Papers as Presiding Judge of the Jackson County, Missouri, Court, 1927-34.
• Clark Clifford Oral History Interview
• New Oral History: John J. Muccio

October 1999

• New Oral History: Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Jessee
• New finding aid online: John Thacher Papers
• Gift shop catalog now online!
• New finding aid online: Leo W. Roberts Papers
• New Oral History: Harry Rosenfield

September 1999

• New Oral Histories: Fraser Wilkins & Bernard Bernstein
• New finding aids online: Edward Jacobson Papers & A.J Granoff Papers W. Averell Harriman
• Truman Democratic Club finding aid updated
• Robert Hannegan finding aid updated

August 1999

• New finding aids online: Leon Keyserling Papers & Charles Jackson Files
• New Oral histories online: Dean Acheson, Abraham Feinberg, A.J. Granoff
• New student activities online: Truman and the Holocaust

July 1999

• Finding aids updated: Greta Kempton, Wesley McCune
• Project Whistlestop adds NATO student research file
• New teaching activities online: George Marshall, Potsdam conference
• Finding aids updated: George Phillies
• Finding aids updated: John Moullette, Brackly Shaw, Francis Williams

June 1999

• George Marshall Exhibition online
• World War II section added
• New finding aid: Roy T. Romine papers
• New finding aids: Roger T. Sermon and Roger T. Sermon, Jr. Papers.
• Subject guide to Library archival material relating to Saudi Arabia
• Subject guide to Library archival material relating to Kansas City, Missouri

May 1999

• Finding aids updated: Katherine Fite Lincoln
• New finding aids: R. Gordon Arneson and Bernard Bernstein Oral histories updated
• Finding aids updated: David H. Stowe

April 1999

• Berlin airlift student research file added to Project Whistlestop site
• Lucius Battle finding aid updated
• New finding aids: Sidney Yates & Dwight Griswold now online
• Berlin airlift program

March 1999

• Jean Carnahan book signing
• NATO at 50

February 1999

• Truman Library Strategic Plan online

January 1999

• 1999 Programs and events calendar now online

1998 news

December 1998

• Web site wins more awards Impact students make digital history
• Inaugurations quiz

November 1998

• Truman Chryslers exhibit online

October 1998

• New personal paper finding aids added to web site
• Motion picture finding aid added to web site

September 1998

• Chryslers return
• September and October program series information added
• New Grants information from the Truman Library Institute now online
• Truman Library Institute web page updated

August 98

• Project Whistlestop site has a new look

July 98

• Desegregation of the Armed Forces - Student research file now online!
• Updated exhibition schedule

June 1998

• Colin Powell to speak in Independence Executive Order 9981 -- desegregation of the armed services
• Interactive polls added to Truman Library web site

May 1998

• Search capability added to Truman Library web site
• Truman Library Institute pages updated
• 1948 Exhibit information
• Dear Bess: Love Letters from the President

April 1998

• Truman week activities The Long Way Home show times
• Truman Library public programs scheduled for April - September, 1998

March 1998

• Updated National History Day information and results
• New press releases online

February 1998

• Truman Library Institute Grants program information updated

January 1998

• Dear Bess: Love Letters from the President - new special exhibition

December 1997

• Material relating to the 50th anniversary of the recognition of Israel. is now online.

November

• There are now new links to information about Nazi Gold Finding Aids and KCPT Channel 19

October

• Up to date news releases have now been added to the web site.

• Information about the new Guggenheim film is now available.

September

• Other recent additions to the web site include updated information on the educational programs of the Library, and links to Project Whistlestop, where many documents and photographs of the Library's collections are being housed for educational activities.

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