James Oliver Horton (Chair) is the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and director of the Afro-American Communities Project of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Horton is currently working with the White House Millennium Council, acting as historical expert for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has served on the National Park System Advisory Board (board chair 1996), and as senior advisor on Historical Interpretation and Public Education for the director of the National Park Service. He was historical advisor to the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Horton also assisted the German government in developing American studies programs in the former East Germany. In the fall of 2000, he was appointed by former President William Clinton as one of two historians to serve on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community. Dr. Horton received his Ph.D. in history from Brandeis University, Massachusetts. He is an alumnus of Salzburg Seminar Symposium on Public History and National Identity, 1999, and serves as a member of the Salzburg Seminar’s Board of Directors.