Prologue: Winter 2000
Essays
Abrupt Transition
C. L. Arbelbide
Garrison's Constitution: The Covenant with Death and How It Was Made
Paul Finkelman
Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records
Walter B. Hill, Jr.
Features
Prologue in Perspective: Better Service Faster— Now! Researchers Ask, We Respond
John W. Carlin
Prologue Portfolio: Peaceful Transition of Power: American Presidential Inaugurations
Maureen MacDonald
Genealogy Notes: Myths and Realities About the 1960 Census
Margaret O. Adams and Thomas E. Brown
Departments
News and Notices
Index