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UMKC Presidential Studies Collection

STUDENT RESEARCH FILE

The Student Research File of the Presidential Studies Collection at Miller Nichols Library consists of photocopies of 40,000+ pages of historic documents involving fifty-four topics relating to Harry S. Truman and his presidency. The topics in the file pertain to many of the most significant U.S. foreign policy issues of the post-World War II era, and include several important domestic social and economic issues as well. Each topic contains between 500 and 1000 pages of copies of documents from the Truman Library's holdings selected by the Truman archives staff as being the most important documents on that subject. The Truman Library donated the Student Research File to UMKC in January, 2000.

Two B-Files - The Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan

Special Collections Department Reading Room

The Student Research File can be consulted in the reading room (photo-left) of the Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections on the fourth floor of Miller Nichols Library. Please see the following link at http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/index.html#hours for the current semester's public service hours.

Student Research File Topics
- Topics listed in hyperlinked text are available online at the Truman Library's Website.
- An asterisk (*) following a topic indicates a finding aid is available for this file.

1. The Personal Life and Views of Harry S. Truman.	2. Planning for the Postwar World: President Truman at the Potsdam Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945.
3. United States Policy in Occupied Germany After World War II: Denazification, Decartelization, Demilitarization and Democratization. *	4. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan. *
5. The War Relocation Authority and the Incarceration of Japanese-Americans During World War II. *	6. President Truman and the Plight of Displaced Persons in Europe Following World War II. *
7. Demobilization and Reconversion: Rebuilding a Peace-time Economy Following World War II.	8. The War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo, 1945-48. *
9. The United Nations, 1945-53: The Development of a World Organization *	10. Creating a Pluralistic Democracy in Japan: The Occupation Government, 1945-52. *
11. The Development of an Atomic Weapons Program Following World War II. *	12. The Chinese Civil War: General George C. Marshall's Mission to China, 1945-47. *
13. The Quest for the Peaceful Atom: The Baruch Plan and the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. *	14. The Attempt to Achieve Stable Economic Growth During the Truman Administration. *
15. The Debate Over Labor Policy: President Truman's Battle with Congress Over Passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, January-June 1947.	16. The Truman Administration's Agricultural Policy, 1945-48.
17. President Truman's Fight to Unify the Armed Services, 1945-49.*	18. The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Report of the Committee on Civil Rights, and President Truman's Message to Congress of February 2, 1948. *
19. The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: President Truman's Attempts to Put the Principles of Racial Justice into Law, 1948-50.*	20. The Truman Administration's Civil Rights Program: The Desegregation of the Armed Forces. *
21. The Ideological Foundation of the Cold War--the Long Telegram, the Foreign Affairs "X" Article, the Clifford Report, and NSC 68. *	22. The Truman Doctrine and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947-49. *
23. Establishing the Marshall Plan, 1947-48. *	24. The Central Intelligence Agency: Its Founding and the Dispute Over Its Mission, 1945-54. *
25. The United States' Recognition of Israel. *	26. Running From Behind: Truman's Strategy for the 1948 Presidential Campaign. * Listen to Truman's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention.
27. The Fair Deal--President Truman's Vision of the American Future. *	28. The Point Four Program: Reaching Out to Help the Less Developed Countries.
29. Containment in Latin America: The Truman Administration's Policies Toward Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico. *	30. The Emergence of an Asian Pacific Rim in American Foreign Policy: Korea, Japan and Formosa.
31. The Emergence of an Asian Pacific Rim in American Foreign Policy: Indochina, Thailand, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines.	32. Cold War Confrontation: Truman, Stalin and the Berlin Airlift, June 1948-May 1949. *
33. The Brannan Plan: The Truman Administration's Attempt to Achieve Full Production in Agriculture, 1949-1950.	34. The Origins and Establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1948-52. *
35. The Truman Administration's Policy Toward Native Americans.	36. The Development of an Energy Policy During the Truman Administration.
37. The Problem of Migratory Farm Labor in the United States, 1948-52. *	38. President Truman's Fight for National Health Insurance, 1949-53. *
39. Creating a New Balance of Power: The Integration of Western Europe.	40. President Truman's Response to Women's Issues. Listen to Truman's Radio Address on National Democratic Women's Day, 1949. *
41. Preparing to Survive Atomic Attack: The Truman Administration's Civil Defense Program. *	42. President Truman's Confrontation with McCarthyism. *
43. The Korean War: The United States' Response to North Korea's Invasion of South Korea, June 25, 1950-October 1950. *	44. The Korean War: The United States' Response to Communist China's Intervention, October 1950-April 1951. *
45. The Korean War: President Truman's Dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur. *	46. Oil Crisis in Iran, 1951-53. *
47. The Truman Scandals: The President Confronts a Political Crisis, 1951-52.	48. Waging Psychological Warfare Against the Communists, 1951-53. *
49. The Constitutional Crisis Over President Truman's Seizure of the Steel Industry in 1952. *	50. Immigration Policy: President Truman's Veto of the McCarran-Walter Act. *
51. The Old President as Political Campaigner, 1952-1972.	52. The Truman Administration's Loyalty Program. *
53. The Korean War: The Prisoner of War Issue and the Search for Peace. *	54. Prelude to Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward Korea, 1945-1950. *

Note: Many of the Student Research File topics have been published in the following printed source, available in the Miller Nichols Library reference area:
Documentary history of the Truman presidency / general editor, Dennis Merrill.
Bethesda, Md. : University Publications of America, 1995-

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