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