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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2010

Laura Kalman
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“She was always poking holes in balloons,” a friend said of the late and justly beloved Kathryn Preyer. These two outstanding articles, the first winners of the Preyer Competition, do that too. Together, they suggest that the Cold War affected domestic life in different ways than we have assumed.

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Forum: “Poking Holes in Balloons”: New Approaches to Cold War Civil Rights
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Law and History Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , Summer 2008 , pp. 319 - 326
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Copyright © the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 2008

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