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Digital technology has revolutionized archival research. When in 2005 I began investigating media-military relations during the Second World War, notes and transcriptions had to be handwritten on site, and documents reproduced at great expense. Work proceeded at a snail’s pace. Modern-day laptops, scanners, and smartphones allow such research to proceed at comparative warp speed. One can now request, skim, and scan for later use in a matter of days what previously would have taken months. Such has been a boon for researchers, though it must mean more work for archivists and records pullers.
My thanks to the staff of the following institutions are thus all the more heartfelt: Army Heritage and Education Center, Archives and Manuscripts Division of the New York Public Library, Associated Press Corporate Archives, BBC Written Archive Center, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, George C. Marshall Research Library, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, Rare and Manuscript Collections at the Carl A Kroch Library of Cornell University, Reuters Corporate Archive, United Kingdom National Archives, and Wisconsin History Society.
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