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Distinguished Alumni Lecture:"I Did It My Way, By Accident: Lessons from an Unconventional Career"

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Distinguished Alumni Lecture:"I Did It My Way, By Accident: Lessons from an Unconventional Career"

College of Arts and Humanities | History Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Francis Scott Key Hall, 0106

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies presents their annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture, featuring Ray Smock ('74).
Ray Smock is the former Historian of the U. S. House of Representatives (1983-95). He is a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago and holds the Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. He was co-editor of the 14-volume documentary series The Booker T. Washington Papers. His is author of a biography: Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow (2009). His latest book, co-edited with Roger Bruns and David Hostetter, is Congress Investigates: A Critical History with Documents (2011), a two-volume compilation of scholarly articles and government documents covering the history of Congressional investigations from 1792 to 2006.

In his capacity as House Historian he was a key planner of the national commemorations of the bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution and the bicentennial of Congress. His office was responsible for numerous publications on the history of Congress, including the standard reference The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989. Other publications of the Office of the Historian were Blacks in Congress, 1877-1989; Women in Congress, 1917-1990; A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987; and The Origins of the U. S. House of Representatives: A Documentary Record.

Smock is a member of the adjunct history faculty at Shepherd University and teaches U. S. History and Public History. He is past president of the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for History in the Federal Government, and the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. In 2006 West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III appointed Smock to the board of the West Virginia Humanities Council. In 2009 he was appointed to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, an independent agency of the federal government affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration.

 

Add to Calendar 04/05/12 7:00 PM 04/05/12 8:30 PM America/New_York Distinguished Alumni Lecture:"I Did It My Way, By Accident: Lessons from an Unconventional Career"

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies presents their annual Distinguished Alumni Lecture, featuring Ray Smock ('74).
Ray Smock is the former Historian of the U. S. House of Representatives (1983-95). He is a graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago and holds the Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland at College Park. He was co-editor of the 14-volume documentary series The Booker T. Washington Papers. His is author of a biography: Booker T. Washington: Black Leadership in the Age of Jim Crow (2009). His latest book, co-edited with Roger Bruns and David Hostetter, is Congress Investigates: A Critical History with Documents (2011), a two-volume compilation of scholarly articles and government documents covering the history of Congressional investigations from 1792 to 2006.

In his capacity as House Historian he was a key planner of the national commemorations of the bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution and the bicentennial of Congress. His office was responsible for numerous publications on the history of Congress, including the standard reference The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989. Other publications of the Office of the Historian were Blacks in Congress, 1877-1989; Women in Congress, 1917-1990; A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987; and The Origins of the U. S. House of Representatives: A Documentary Record.

Smock is a member of the adjunct history faculty at Shepherd University and teaches U. S. History and Public History. He is past president of the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for History in the Federal Government, and the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. In 2006 West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III appointed Smock to the board of the West Virginia Humanities Council. In 2009 he was appointed to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, an independent agency of the federal government affiliated with the National Archives and Records Administration.

 

Francis Scott Key Hall