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Project WhistleStop: Truman Digital Archive Project <http://www.whistlestop.org>. Created and maintained by the Independence, Blue Springs, Lee's Summit, and Platte County R-3 Missouri School Districts; the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library; and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Site visited Sept. 30, 2001.
Named after the 1948 presidential campaign train tour that led to Harry S. Truman's upset victory over Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey, Project WhistleStop brings together schoolteachers, librarians and archivists, and scholars. Intended to serve as an archive of primary sources and a teaching resource, the site presents hundreds of documents, photographs, cartoons, and audio files from the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
The site revolves around document collections selected and arranged by archivists at the Truman Library. Some deal with Truman's personal files, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the 1948 presidential...