Prologue (magazine)

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| image_caption = Prologue magazine, Summer 2005 cover

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| language = English

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| publisher = National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

| country = USA

| frequency = Quarterly

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| founder = James Berton Rhoads

| firstdate = Spring 1969

| finaldate = Winter 2017 (print)

| based = Atlanta, Georgia

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| website = [https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/index.html www.archives.gov/publications/prologue Prologue]

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| OCLC = 321015582

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| ISSN = 0033-1031

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Prologue was a publication of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The publication's articles are based on NARA's holdings and programs and material from the regional archives and the presidential libraries across the United States.{{cite web|title=Prologue Magazine|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration|access-date=December 14, 2015}}

The magazine was founded by James B. Rhoads, fifth archivist of the United States. The first issue of Prologue appeared in Spring 1969.{{cite news|author=Alex Nieuwsma|title=Remembering James Berton "Bert" Rhoads, Fifth Archivist of the United States (1968-1979)|url=http://blogs.archives.gov/prologue/?p=15294|access-date=14 December 2015|work=The National Archives|date=13 April 2015}} The periodical's headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia.{{cite web|title=Prologue Magazine Recalls the Founding Father Remembered for 'Gerrymandering'|url=https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2006/nr06-89.html|publisher=National Archives|access-date=December 14, 2015|date=April 11, 2006}} The magazine ceased print publication in 2017.{{Cite web|title=Prologue's Story—So Far|work=National Archives|access-date=April 28, 2018|date=April 19, 2018|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/winter/prologues-story}}