UPSET! Harry Truman and the 1948 Election
May 30, 2024 - February 1, 2025
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum
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With the world watching the pivotal 2024 election, a new Truman Library exhibition recalls the biggest political upset in U.S. history. Promising Americans a “Fair Deal” while campaigning against a “do-nothing Congress,” Truman changed the nation’s tune—from MILD to WILD about Harry.
A new temporary exhibition, UPSET! Harry Truman and the 1948 Election, allows visitors to travel back in time to see how the most stunning surprise in U.S. presidential election history came about. The exhibit, which includes more than 200 artifacts, original political cartoons, interactive displays, diary entries, photographs and videos, opens May 30, 2024, and runs through February 1, 2025, at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum in Independence, MO.
Moving Mountains: The Panama Canal, Presidential Power, and the Dawn of the American Century
The exhibition is on display at the Truman Forum, located within the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library. Show more
Presented by the Truman Library Institute
On Display at the Truman Forum Auditorium
Plaza Branch, Kansas City Public Library, 4801 Main St., Kansas City, MO
Available for viewing during events presented in the Truman Forum Auditorium
To mark the centennial anniversary of the Panama Canal’s completion, the Truman Library Institute created and launched an original exhibition highlighting the presidential past of the isthmian passageway. Moving Mountains: The Panama Canal, Presidential Power and the Dawn of the American Century draws on the rich history preserved in our nation’s presidential archives – including the Truman Library – to share a story which is much broader than the creation of the Panama Canal. It is the story of America itself and the underlying spirit of achievement that has made this nation great.
Click here to view highlights from the permanent exhibition, An Ordinary Man, His Extraordinary Journey.
Plan your next visit to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum. Members enjoy free Museum admission, not only at the Truman Library but at all Presidential Libraries of the National Archives.
