PRESIDENT
Dr. Leon F. Litwack
University of California at Berkeley
(510) 642-2272

Until his retirement in May 2007, Dr. Litwack was the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1964. He is the author and editor of several books, including North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1965); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979), which won both the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award; and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). He served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1986-1987.

VICE PRESIDENT
Dr. Jack Temple Kirby
Miami University
(904) 471-2564

Dr. Kirby spent his entire career at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he was the W.E. Smith Professor of American History when he retired in 2002. Among his eight books are Darkness at the Dawning: Race and Reform in the Progressive South (1972); Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination (1977); Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (1987); The Countercultural South (1995); and most recently, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (2006), which won a Bancroft Prize in 2007. He is currently living in St. Augustine, Florida.

EDITOR
Dr. John B. Boles
Rice University
(713) 348-6039

Dr. Boles is the William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice University and is celebrating his 25th year as Editor of the Journal of Southern History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1969. His books include The Great Revival, 1787-1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind (1972), Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983), and The South Through Time: A History of an American Region (1999). Among his edited works are Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 (1988), Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (1987), coedited with Evelyn T. Nolen, and the Blackwell Companion to the American South.

Dr. Inscoe is University Professor at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. He is the author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989) and co-author of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: The Civil War in Western North Carolina (2000) and has edited or co-edited eassy collections on Georgia race relations, James Oglethorpe, Appalachians and race in the 19th century, southern Unionists during the Civil War, and most recently, Inside the Confederate Nation (2005). He is also the editor of the on-line New Georgia Encyclopedia.

PAST PRESIDENT
Dr. Nell Irvin Painter
Princeton University
(609) 258-1613

Until her recent retirement from teaching in 2005, Dr. Painter was the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1974. Her latest book is Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present (2005). Her other books include Southern History Across the Color Line; Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol; Standing at Armageddon; The Narrative of Hosea Hudson; and Exodusters. She is currently President of the Organization of American Historians. For more information on Dr. Painter visit her website.

Dr. Nick Salvatore
Cornell University
(607) 255-2240

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