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What's new in the past? Find out with Prologue Magazine, the quarterly publication of the National Archives.

The Winter 2008 issue features:

- FDR: The President and High School: Franklin Roosevelt was more than the architect of the New Deal, he helped design buildings, too. Kieth Olson recounts how the president was closely involved in the construction of a school in Hyde Park.

- BIG! Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives: A look at our newest exhibit on all things "big" at the National Archives from a giant map of Gettysburg and the thirteen foot long Articles of Confederation, to William Howard Taft's tub.

- Archival Vintages for The Grapes of the Wrath: John Steinbeck's epic novel was more grounded in reality than one might think. Daniel Nealand tells the story behind the groundbreaking work.

- Camp David: A photographic look at how Presidents since FDR have used this Maryland retreat.

- A Half-Century of America in Space: As NASA turns 50, exhibits at the Johnson and Bush Library celebrate. (For more vintage NASA, check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/usnationalarchives)

As always, there's plenty more inside this issue of Prologue for genealogists and enthusiasts alike from a profile of Mitch Yockelson's novel on two U.S. divisions serving with the British Army in World War I to what it takes to move one president out of the White House, and another in.