Elliott, Jean2015-10-292015-10-292006-11-17http://hdl.handle.net/10919/59801Roger Ekirch, of Roanoke, Va. a professor of early American history at Virginia Tech, was selected as this year's winner of the Charles Smith Award for his highly acclaimed book entitled At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, which examines the history of nocturnal activity before the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and electrical lighting. The Smith Award is presented in even-numbered years by the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association for the best book on European history published during the past two years.In CopyrightCollege of Liberal Arts and Human SciencesPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations