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On behalf of the Trustees and Staff
of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, we are pleased
to participate as a sponsor of the Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era. The Center was founded more than 85 years
ago as the nation's first presidential library and museum.
From the beginning, the Presidential Center's purpose was to "make
available to scholars and students historical writings and source
material dealing with history generally...in cooperation with
other societies, educational institutions ...and other public
foundations." Because the commencement of the Hayes
Administration marked the traditional beginning of the Gilded
Age, that topic has naturally been the focus of the Center's publications
and research collections. In furtherance of that mission,
the Center has, from time to time, issued periodical publications,
beginning with Curtis W. Garrison, ed. The United States, 1865-1900:
A Survey of Current Literature. . . (Fremont, Ohio, 1943-1945),
3 vols. It also published the Hayes Historical Journal
from 1976 until 1993, when it was discontinued owing to inadequate
financial resources. The Presidential Center's support of
this new journal, and its ongoing affiliation with the Society
for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, is a logical
component of its long-standing mission.
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