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Truman Presidential Museum & Library
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
The Web site for Truman's library includes a collection of exhibits, Truman trivia, and links to information about the library's holdings and related Web sites.

Project WhistleStop
http://www.whistlestop.org/index.html
Project WhistleStop is an in-depth resource of original Truman Library documents, photographs, records, cartoons, and other archival material for student research projects.

Harry S. Truman
http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/hstruman.html
Part of the Internet Public Library's Presidents of the U.S. Site, this resource offers election results, a list of Truman's cabinet members, a personal fact sheet, links to other political figures and presidents, the first lady, sound and image files, primary sources, and many other Truman-related sites.

World War I: Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
This Web site includes photographs, interviews, articles, maps, timelines, and much more about the Great War.

Guts and Glory
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/guts/
A pair of American Experience documentaries and a companionWeb site examine two pivotal events in the European Theater of World War II, D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge. The site offers accounts of eyewitnesses and participants, a World War II timeline, and film transcripts.

The Manhattan Project
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/manhattan.html
Nuclearfiles.org, a project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, features primary sources on the history of the Manhattan Project.

A-Bomb WWW Museum
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
This site offers a Japanese perspective on the use of the atomic bomb. (Note: The site contains graphic images. You may want to preview it first.)

Hiroshima: Was It Necessary?
http://www.doug-long.com/
A resource about this controversial issue, with links to documents such as Truman's diaries, to other sites related to the question, and to nuclear activity in general.

Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
CNN provides a collection of interesting materials regarding the Cold War.

The Literature and Culture of the 1950s
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html
Produced by University of Pennsylvania English Professor Al Filreis, this site is a searchable, annotated list of links to literary and cultural materials produced during or related to the American 1950s. Linked materials include: excerpts from the Communist Control Act of 1954, a biography of Thomas Dewey, chapters from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a photo of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg's FBI file, a New Yorker cartoon on modern art, speeches, editorials, and articles of the time.

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Allen, Peter. Origins of World War II. New York: Bookwright Press, 1992. An overview of the events and people involved in the beginnings of World War II, including many illustrations, maps and photographs, a timeline, and biographical sketches of the major figures of the time.

Bernstein, Barton J. and Allen J. Matusow, eds., The Truman Administration: A Documentary History. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. An extensive collection of primary source materials, including legislation, speeches, memos, and more.

Blum, John Morton.V Was for Victory. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. An examination of the culture and politics on the homefront during World War II.

Cohen, Daniel. Joseph McCarthy: The Misuse of Political Power. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1996. Written for young adults, this book presents an analysis of McCarthy, HUAC, and the effects of McCarthyism on American life in the 1950s.

Coontz, Stephanie. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. New York: Basic Books, 1992. This book examines the changes American women experienced in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dornfield, Margaret. The Turning Tide, 1948-1956: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. Part of the Milestones in Black American History series written for young adults, this volume examines the issues, events, and people who contributed to the struggle for equality for African Americans.

Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983. A collection of the private letters Truman wrote to his wife Bess, from the time of his World War I service through his presidency.

Ferrell, Robert H., ed. Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History. Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Company, 1996. This is a compilation of letters, diary entries, interviews, memos, etc. compiled by archivists at the Harry S. Truman Library in Missouri.

Ferrell, Robert H. Harry S. Truman and the Modern American Presidency. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. An analytical biography of Truman's contributions to the presidency through his skills as an administrator and his handling of foreign policy. The book includes a chapter on how Truman's standing has changed since he left the presidency, as well as photographs and an annotated bibliography.

Finkelstein, Norman H. The Emperor General. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, Inc., 1989. A colorful, easy-to-read biography of Douglas MacArthur, one of America's most powerful and most controversial generals. The book includes many photos, a chronology of MacArthur's life, and a bibliography.

Gallen, David, ed. The Quotable Truman. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., Arranged by topic, these are excerpts from a series of interviews recorded in 1960 and 1961, in which Truman discussed the history of the U.S. government, its Constitution, and the presidency.

Hakim, Joy. All the People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Written for younger readers, this is Volume 10 in the A History of US series. It presents an easy-to-read, mulitcultural view of United States history, from 1945 to 1992.

Hartmann, Susan. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. Part of the American Women in the 20th Century series, this examines the role of women after the war in the workplace, in education, in politics, and at home.

LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1980, 7th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993. Written by one of the historians who contributed to the Truman program, this is an in-depth analysis of the troubled relations between the two superpowers from the end of World War II to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Mallon, Thomas.Dewey Defeats Truman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997. Set in Thomas Dewey's home town of Owosso, Michigan, this novel tells the tale of a love triangle between a woman, a labor organizer, and a wealthy lawyer set against the backdrop of the 1948 presidential campaign.

May, Elaine Tyler. Pushing the Limits: American Women 1940-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Written for young adults, this is part of The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States and examines the role of women during World War II and the postwar years includes photos and a bibliography.

McCullough, David G. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. The Pulitzer prize-winning, definitive biography of this presidential "man of the people" by the distinguished historian and former American Experience host.

Robbins, Jhan. Bess & Harry: An American Love Story. New York: Putnam, 1980. An intimate portrait of the relationship between Truman and his wife Bess, including excerpts from letters, many photographs, and a bibliography.

Time-Life Books. This Fabulous Century: 1940 to 1950. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, Inc., 1970. Useful for students and browsers, this is a pictorial look at the culture, politics, and other aspects of American life during the 1940s.

Truman, Margaret. Bess W. Truman. New York: Macmillan, 1986. Written by her daughter, this is a personal and highly readable account of the life of the first lady, based on Margaret's own memories as well as thousands of letters.

Truman, Margaret. Murder in the White House. New York: Arbor House, 1980. In the first of a series of Washington-based murder mysteries written by the former first daughter, the secretary of state is found dead in the White House, and everyone, including the first family, is under suspicion.

Walton, Richard J. Henry Wallace, Harry Truman, and the Cold War. New York: Viking, 1976. An in-depth study of the 1948 presidential campaign and the debate between Wallace and Truman over the origins and intentions of the foreign policy of the time that led to the Cold War. Includes excerpts from speeches and other primary sources.

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The song "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds can be found in on her album "Malvina", on "World of Pete Seeger" by Pete Seeger, or in "Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Songbook", edited by Peter Blood and Annie Patterson, Sing Out, PO Box 5253, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, (215) 865-5366, as well as "The Malvina Reynolds Songbook" (Schroeder Music, 1974) and "Songs That Changed the World" by Wanda Whitman (Crown, 1969).