Prologue | Summer 2007
Vol. 39, No. 2
Table of Contents
Prologue in Perspective: Progress toward a Goal of Greater Access
Allen Weinstein
American Mysteries, Riddles, and Controversies!
New Exhibit at the Hoover Presidential Library Challenges Visitors to Ask Better Questions in the Search for Answers
Timothy Walch and Maureen Harding
"Tear Down This Wall": How Top Advisers Opposed Reagan's Challenge to Gorbachev—But Lost
Peter Robinson
The 82nd Airborne's "Jumping JAG": The Incredible Wartime Career of Nicholas E. Allen
Fred L. Borch
"Sweltering with Treason": The Civil War Trials of William Matthew Merrick
Jonathan W. White
Rich, Famous, and Questionably Sane: When a Wealthy Heir's Family Sought Help from a Hospital for the Insane
Miriam Kleiman
Spotlight on NARA: Chasing Technology: The Challenge of Preserving Audiovisual Records
Steve Greene
Genealogy Notes: "Their . . . Bedding is wet Their floors are damp": "Pre-Bureau" Records and Civil War African American Genealogy
Rebecca K. Sharp
Authors on the Record: Lincoln and the Telegraph: A Great Leader Adapts to a New Medium
Foundation for the National Archives
Pieces of History: Guadalcanal Record of Events
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