TAMARA K. HAREVEN is Unidel Professor of Family Studies and History, University of Delaware, and Visiting Scholar in sociology at Harvard University. She is founder of the Journal of Family History and President of the Social Science History Association. A pioneer and foremost leader in the development of the field of family history, Dr. Hareven is the author of several books, and most notably Family Time and Industrial Time (1982) and Aging and Generational Relations (1995).
RANDOLPH LANGENBACH is a designer, architectural historian, and photographer. His documentation of, and historical research on, nineteenth-century industrial cities have become well known in both the United States and Great Britain. His articles and photographs have been published in numerous books and magazines; and his book, A Future From the Past, was published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has produced an exhibition in London on British industrial towns, and was actively involved in planning the new national park in Manchester's sister city, Lowell, Massachusettes.