Curriculum Materials

The National Park Service believes that each National Park unit is a classroom in itself...a classroom, often, without walls. National Parks are established because of their significance to the historic, scientific, and cultural fabric of our country.

Harry S Truman National Historic Site has devised this lesson plan and curriculum support for the Truman Home in Independence, Missouri, as well as the neighborhood around it. We hope that it helps you.

Harry Truman and Independence, Missouri: "This is Where I Belong"

Please also visit the website of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, also in Independence, Missouri. A very talented team of Truman Library educators and teachers from across the country have created a wealth of tools for teachers and students. You may well be teaching the next president of the United States!

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    Senior class picture, over 25 men and women
    1901 Class, Independence, Missouri, High School

    Truman Library

    In this picture is a future President of the United States, a future First Lady, and a future presidential Press Secretary. Can you find them?

    Perhaps you have in your classroom a future president, a future First Lady and a future Press Secretary!

    Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace, and Charles Ross, among others, posing for high school graduating class photo, Independence, Missouri, 1901. Back row: Henry Chiles; Elmer Twyman; William Lloyd Garrett; Harry Truman; Will Long; Myrtle Cronkhite; Laura Ford; Mary Anderson; Gertrude Dixon; Laura Kingsbury. Third row: Crawford Compton; Leura Walters; Katie Krey; Gertrude Reyner. Second row: Tasker P. Taylor; Louretta Meador; Minnie Carpenter; Grace Crandall; Mary Taylor; James T. Brown; Mary Chinn; Itaska Atkinson; Bertha Roberts; Bess Wallace. Front row: Charles Ross; Nellie Caldwell; Emily Witschie; Faith Slichter; Lizzie Gossett; Minnie Robinson; Ruth Knapp; Agnes Roberts; Mary Womack.

    Last updated: September 22, 2021

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    223 North Main Street (Visitor Center/ Truman Home Ticketing Station)
    Independence, MO 64050

    Phone:

    816-254-9929
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