Upcoming Events
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WWII Emerging Scholars Symposium presents Christopher McNulty
Jun 8, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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WWII Emerging Scholars Symposium presents Benjamin Schneider
Jun 8, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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WWII Emerging Scholars Symposium presents Rob Williams
Jun 9, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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WWII Emerging Scholars Symposium presents Jared T. Frederick
Jun 9, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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A Free World With Unity And Purpose: The Urgent Lessons Of The Berlin Airlift
Jun 15, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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“Civics for All of US” Teacher Workshop - Interrogating Presidential Photos
Jun 27, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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“Civics for All of US” Teacher Workshop - We the People: Teaching the Constitution for Elementary Educators
Jul 11, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle For America's Soul
Jul 12, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
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“Civics for All of US” Teacher Workshop - The Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators
Aug 1, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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“Civics for All of US” Teacher Workshop - The Bill of Rights for Secondary Educators
Aug 2, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Special Exhibition
Rooted among the Ashes: Hibakujumoku / A-bombed Trees Katy McCormick
Exhibit Opens March 31, 2023
For over a decade Katy McCormick has examined Japan’s A-bombed landscapes. Her work portrays the survivor trees or hibakujumoku subjected to the first use of atomic bombs in 1945, signifying the vulnerability of life in the face of nuclear threats. Standing in school yards, temple grounds, and city squares, the A-bombed trees are living memorials, rooted among the ashes just below the surfaces of now-thriving cities. Predicated on “walking and remembrance,” the exhibition invites a promenade through space and time, memory and history, urging reflection upon how the past haunts the present—warning, teaching, urging care.
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The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum was established to preserve the papers, books, and other historical materials relating to former President Harry S. Truman and to make them available to the people in a place suitable for exhibit and research. Consistently ranked among the top tourism destinations in the Kansas City region, no visit to America's heartland is complete without a trip to the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.