The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, 1950. But the Chicago Tribune had predicted America’s enemies would ...

Roosevelt and Truman won the 1944 election. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, shortly before Germany surrendered. Truman became president and two weeks later was provided with details on the ...

When Truman became FDR’s running mate in 1944, for example, Time magazine mocked him as “the mousy little man from Missouri.” The taunts didn’t let up after he became president.

Roosevelt instead chose Truman to be his running mate for the 1944 elections, so it was Truman who became president after FDR’s death in April1945. 4. Born on a farm near Orient, ...

Back in the mid-to-late 1940s, there were China hawks who tried to persuade the Roosevelt-Truman administration to wholeheartedly support the Chinese Nationalists — who were an important ally in ...

The situation Harry Truman eventually inherited after FDR died led to perhaps the most tense and consequential four-month period of any U.S. presidency.

Donald Trump's 30-plus visits to Mar-a-Lago during his White House term are far from the only presidential history in Florida. The Sunshine State, which has not seen a favorite son ever elected to ...

Truman, however, distrustful of Wallace for his naïveté about the Soviets, later dismissed him. Wallace, in turn, ran against Truman in 1948 as a Progressive. That election itself reminds us of ...