John David Smith is Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction. Raymond Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several acclaimed and prizewinning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited thirty-one books, including
An Old Creed for the New South: Proslavery Ideology and Historiography, 1865-1918;
Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro;
Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops;
Soldiering For Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops in the Civil War;
and
We Ask Only for Even-
Handed Justice: Black Voices from Reconstruction.
Raymond Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several acclaimed and prizewinning books, including
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice,
The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America, and
Arthur Ashe, A Life. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.