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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.

 
 

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    Over twenty students posing for a picture, including 17 year old Harry Truman
    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.

    Last updated: September 22, 2021

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

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    816-254-9929
    The park is open to the public Wednesdays-Sundays. The park is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Administrative staff work Monday-Friday. For Administration staff, please call (816) 254-2720, Mondays to Fridays, 8AM-4PM. All times central. (We like to call it Truman Time.)

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