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When our editor toured the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum in Independence, she came away with a heightened appreciation for the only Missourian to serve as president of the United States. Here’s why you should visit, too.

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On August 30, 1904, the Great Olympic Marathon debacle unfolds at the Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis, Mo.

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On this date in 1957, the Harry S. Truman Library opened in Independence. 

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This is the birthday of Joseph Rutherford Walker, one of the greatest of all the westward explorers and a Missourian from Independence.

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Near Independence, Mrs. John Oliver walked into a closet where her husband stored blasting powder.  A spark from her pipe … you can guess the rest.