Louis R. Harlan is a member of the history faculty at the University of Maryland and is the author of a highly acclaimed two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, was awarded a Bancroft Prize and Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915, received the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prizes, as well as the Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association. Raymond W. Smock, a former member of the history faculty at the University of Maryland, was recently appointed as the first Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and the director of the Office for the Bicentennial of the House. He is also president of the Association for Documentary Editing and is a past recipient of the Philip M. Hamer Award of the Society of American Archivists.
