| Editor's Note | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.4

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Editor's Note

With the close of 2004, the IMH prepares to enter its centennial year. Such occasions are, at one level, unremarkable—the work of historians, educators, genealogists, and others seeking to make sense of the past continues from one year to the next, regardless of the season.

In other ways, anniversaries are surprisingly effective catalysts, both for fresh historical research and for public awareness of its results. The paired bicentennials of the Louisiana Purchase and the subsequent explorations of Lewis and Clark, for example, have occasioned a long series of public events, museum exhibitions, and—not least—new literature over the last two years. For this issue, we have commissioned two review essays, one from Western historian Joseph Porter and the other from former IMH editor Bernard Sheehan, assessing some of that new material in light of a long tradition of historical writing. Alongside these essays, historian Robert Ferrell marks the passage of another kind of cyclical event—the presidential election season—with his thoughts on the art of writing presidential biography. In the lead article, Edward Frantz takes on a neglected moment in the career of one American president, Benjamin Harrison, whose efforts at shoring up sectional support for his 1892 campaign presage the grueling drive for "swing states" that we have seen in the 2004 campaign.

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