Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides

Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP)

Teaching with Historic Places uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. Our lesson plan also utilizes materials from the Harry S Truman Presidential Library and information from leading biographers.

 

 

 

Juventis Spes Mundi!

Truman Library Education Materials

 

1901 graduating 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.