Louis R. Harlan is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, a Bancroft Prize winner. Raymond W. Smock recently published, with Pete Daniel, A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910. Smock is a former editor of the Maryland Historian.Barbara S. Kraft, is co-author of In The Minds and Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution, 1760-1774 and is currently writing a book on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition.

Louis R. Harlan is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901, a Bancroft Prize winner. Raymond W. Smock recently published, with Pete Daniel, A Talent for Detail: The Photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910. Smock is a former editor of the Maryland Historian.Barbara S. Kraft, is co-author of In The Minds and Hearts of the People: Prologue to the American Revolution, 1760-1774 and is currently writing a book on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition.