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Students will research and analyze primary and secondary sources on the 1948 U.S. Presidential Campaign and produce a digital scrapbook.

Students analyze a collection of political cartoons and come up with questions find out more about the situations the cartoons depict

Analysis of Thomas Hart Benton mural

Document analysis activity focused on the press release from President Truman on August 6, 1945 following the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Ways to use Truman's State of the Union addresses in teaching

Primary source discovery and analysis

Students, working in teams, will analyze the rapid rise in automobiles and the growing need for a stable road system in the United States/Missouri

Students analyze a biographical comic book summarizing President Harry S. Truman's life prepared by the Democratic Party.

Students will conduct and script an interview of a veteran of the Korean War and submit a finished product (video and script of questions and answers) for evaluation.

Students will be analyzing two political cartoons featuring the United Nations (one from the Korean War-Truman administration and one from the War in the Persian Gulf-circa Bush 41 administration). After independent analysis, students will pair up or join small groups and share analysis and then discuss two questions about U.S. foreign policy decisions concerning the two events and the Presidential choices made about when and how to involve the U.S. in war.