Prologue | Spring 2008
Vol. 40, No. 1
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Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson Baseball legend Jackie Robinson's Army court-martial during World War II provided a preview of the civil rights movement that would shake postwar America. |
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Ready Access NARA's 17 Federal Records Centers around the country easy storage and prompt of records for dozens of other federal agencies. |
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No Little Historic Value The Russian Revolution prompted American diplomats to take quick and unusual steps to save U.S. State Department records and bring them home to Washington. |
Table of Contents
Prologue in Perspective: A Word about the Archives' Budget—and the Quality of Our Staff
Allen Weinstein
Primaries, Politics, and Political Cartoons: The 1912 Election
Jessie Kratz and Martha Grove
"No Little Historic Value": The Records of the Department of State Posts in Revolutionary Russia
David A. Langbart
The President and the Justices: Symposium at FDR Library Examines Supreme Court–White House Relationship
Cynthia M. Koch
The TVA at 75: FDR's Rescue of the Tennessee Valley Produced a Still Vital—and Controversial—Agency
Mary Evelyn Tomlin
Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant Robinson: A 1944 Court-Martial
John Vernon
Spotlight on NARA: Ready Access: NARA's Federal Records Centers Offer Agencies Storage, Easy Use for 80 Billion Pages of Documents
Tara E. C. McLoughlin
Genealogy Notes: To Protect and to Serve: The Records of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 1861–1930
John P. Deeben
Authors on the Record: A Fresh Look at a Remarkable Year: Author Examines Jackie Robinson's Rookie Season
Foundation for the National Archives
Pieces of History: A Chinese Exclusion Act Coaching Book
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