Prologue

Smithsonian Magazine’s history-focused Prologue section makes the past relevant to your life through new research and new perspectives. In every issue, Smithsonian Magazine reveals that the past is, in fact, prologue—from the turn-of-the-century “pie wars” that were a proxy for the country’s immigration debates and the 1918 skirmish that sparked a century of wall-building on the United States’ southern border to the saga of the formerly enslaved woman who won the largest reparations verdict in U.S. history, just 15 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

role: Senior Editor
publisher: Smithsonian Magazine
publication date: Monthly, March 2018 through December 2019
category: History

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