{"id":202,"date":"2014-04-15T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=202"},"modified":"2014-04-16T06:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:23:25","slug":"class-trip-to-truman-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2014\/04\/15\/class-trip-to-truman-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Class trip to Truman Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/04\/truman3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-203\" alt=\"truman3\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/04\/truman3-300x285.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/04\/truman3-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2014\/04\/truman3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman became president of the United States following the death of his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt.\u00a0 On the 69<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of that event, the weekend of April 12, 2014, students from Truman State University toured sites related to Truman in the greater Kansas City area.<\/p>\n<p>The students were members of a class taught by Jeff Gall entitled \u201cThe Life and Times of Harry Truman.\u201d\u00a0 As they neared the end of the semester, what they had learned in class became more tangible as they visited the following sites in Independence, Grandview, and Kansas City: the Truman boyhood home, the Truman courtroom in the Jackson County Courthouse, the Truman Farm, \u201cBoss\u201d Tom Pendergast\u2019s office, and the Victorian home where Harry and Bess lived their adult lives.<\/p>\n<p>They also spent an afternoon at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum.\u00a0 There, before touring the museum, they took part in a historical simulation at the \u201cWhite House Decision Center\u201d in which they recreated Truman\u2019s decision to enter the Korean Conflict.\u00a0 Finally, they toured the National World War I Museum at the Liberty Memorial, followed by a great meal at Kansas City\u2019s landmark eatery, Arthur Bryant\u2019s Barbeque.<\/p>\n<p>The students would like to thank Dean Elizabeth Clark of the School of Social and Cultural Studies for financial support that helped make the trip possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, 1945, Harry S. Truman became president of the United States following the death of his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt.\u00a0 On the 69th anniversary of that event, the weekend of April 12, 2014, students from Truman State University toured sites related to Truman in the greater Kansas City area. The students were members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}