As Historian of the U.S. Senate, Donald A. Ritchie conducts an oral history program with former senators and Senate staff. A graduate of the City College of New York, he received his PhD in history from the University of Maryland. His other books include James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators (1980), Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents (1991), American Journalists: Getting the Story (1997), The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (2001), Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps (2005), and The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (2010). He serves as senior advisor to the Oxford Oral History Series and edited The Oxford Handbook of Oral History (2011). He has conducted numerous oral history workshops, chaired the Organization of American Historians’ committee on research and access to historical documentation, and established the “Pioneers in Public History” interview series for The Public Historian. A past president of the Oral History Association and of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR), he also served on the councils of the American Historical Association and the International Oral History Association. He received the Organization of American Historians’ Richard W. Leopold Prize and OHMAR’s Forrest C. Pogue Award for significant contributions to the field of oral history.