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acknowledgments This research was completed with the support of grants and fellowships from the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Society; the Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK); Beyond the Wall (a nonprofit organization); the British Academy; the College of William and Mary’s Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture; the University of Glamorgan; Lancaster University; the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; Johns Hopkins University’s Program in Atlantic History and Culture; Johns Hopkins University’s Frederick Jackson Turner Society; the Smithsonian Institution; and the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency. The research was assisted by numerous librarians, archivists, and scholars. Jim Roan of the National Museum of American History’s library actively searched out relevant materials rather than adopting the more conventional librarian’s role of waiting for requests. John Baky of the Connelly Library, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, has assembled an important special collection of Vietnam War–related material, “Imaginative Representations of the Vietnam War.” The research was also supported by Lisa Jones, archivist at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California; Fred Bauman, Ron Cogan, Ernie Emrich, Nan Ernst, Jeff Flannery, Mike Klein, Katie McDonough, Jeff Monagle, Mary Wolfskill, and Joe Sullivan of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress; the staff of the Division of Prints and Photographs of the Library of Congress; Hope Y. Yelich of the College of William and Mary’s Earl Gregg Swem Library; Sue Clarke, at the Lancaster University library; Pacifico C. Lazo, a research analyst at the Government Accountability Office; and the staff of public libraries in all fifty states who assisted me in my questionnaire survey about Vietnam veterans memorials. I was assisted in research queries by Christy Thornton of NACLA Reports on the Americas, and by Oliver Trager of Facts on File. Elizabeth Mock of the University of Massachusetts, Boston’s Healey Library gave me access to the special collection on the PBS documentary Vietnam: A Television History. Gene Michaud of the Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences helped me with numerous research leads and was a valued source of advice over many years. Philip Brookman and Susan Ades of the Washington Project for the Arts allowed me to study the records and transcripts of the “War and Memory: In the Aftermath of Vietnam” exhibition; staff of the National Museum of American Art gave me further access to the collection once it was deposited in their archives. xi Hunter Hollins, coordinator of museum services at the U.S. Department of the Interior, helped me track down photo documentation of Frederick Hart’s maquette of the statue Three Infantrymen. MichaelRossmanoftheAOUON[AllofUsorNone]Archive,Berkeley,California, and Carol Wells of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, allowed me to photograph antiwar posters in their excellent collections. David Kunzle allowed me to duplicate his visual documentation of his “Posters of Protest” collection , now a part of the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Larry Bird and Edith Mayo of the Division of Political History (now the Division of Politics and Reform) of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, allowed me to photograph the museum’s collection of protest posters . Eve Sinaiko, Sondra Varco, and Lucy Lippard assisted my research on visual arts of the Vietnam War. Dan Hallin helped me to obtain copies of documentaries about the Vietnam War. William Withuhn, a Vietnam veteran and curator at the National Museum of American History, gave invaluable support to the project at an early stage and introduced me to Jack Wheeler. Mina Marefat, senior architectural historian at the National Museum of American History, arranged my introduction to Paul Spreiregen. I appreciate the assistance of the National Park Service’s Duery Felton, David Guynes, and Pamela Beth West, who gave me access to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection. The National Museum of American History’s Jennifer Locke Jones informed me about the selection and installation of materials in the museum’s exhibit, “Personal Legacy: The Healing of a Nation” and subsequently supported my research in numerous other ways. Cara Sutherland, of the Museum of Our National Heritage, informed me about the installation of materials in the “Gathered at the Wall” exhibition. Carole Page gave me invaluable assistance by sending me copies of the From the Heart newsletter. She and several contributors to Laura Palmer’s Shrapnel in the Heart, including Dana Shuster and Dan Doyle, embraced my interest in their reunions at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...

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