Kenneth M Stampp, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, was the author of The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. He was awarded the Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement in 1993.
Leon Litwack, Morrison Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History.