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Paul Rosta is a free-lance writer who lives in Los Angeles. He writes frequently about various aspects of American history and culture.

Mark Rotella, the author of Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria , is at work on a book on the great Italian-American pop singers.

David J. Rothman is a member of the history jacuity at Columbia University and author of The Discovery of the Asylum : Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Little, Brown, 1971).

Barbara Rotunda (1942-2005) was an associate professor of English at the University of Albany and a pioneering educator and scholar.  She was educated at Cornell and Syracuse Universities and started one of the

Sharon Roualet is the School Librarian at Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN.

John Rousmaniere, the author of The Annapolis Book of Seamanship and several works on ocean racing and the America’s Cup, is currently writing an illustrated history of Columbia University.

Richard Halworth Rovere often reports from Washington in his capacity as a staff writer for The New Yorker . Among his books are Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years and The American Establishment

Alfred Leslie Rowse(1903 – 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his

Frank Rowsome, Jr., the author of this cheerful bit of Americana, is now head of the Technical Publications section of NASA. The Verse by the Side of the Road is adapted from a book of the same title

Ephraim Rubenstein is an artist and an instructor in drawing at the Art Students League of New York.

Hughes Rudd, whose service in the “Maytag Messerschmitt” earned him a Silver Star, six air medals, and a number of other awards, has been a radio and television correspondent for both CBS News and, currently

Rudin is the publisher of The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher whose mission is to foster greater appreciation and pride in America’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print,

Timothy C. Ruse is an independent historian and the Director of Georgetown Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center, who also wrote We Volunteered: A Biography of Carl Robert Ruse, Survivor of the Bataan Death March

Francis Russell, a frequent contributor, is the author of Adams: An American Dynasty , a book recently published by American Heritage.

Preston Russell, a pathologist in Savannah, Georgia, is completing a book about the personal relationship between Lafayette and Washington.

John Russell, an art critic for The New York Times , is the author of many books about art and artists.

Franklin Russell is a free-lance writer who frequently reports on ecological matters. He is currently working on a book dealing with catastrophes of natural history that have occurred throughout the world.

In 1866 a remarkable book appeared, The Atlantic Telegraph , by William Howard Russell, one of the most eminent newspaper correspondents of his day. He had covered both the Crimean War and the American Civil

For over twenty years, Gus Russo has been an investigative reporter, author of six non-fiction books, and writer and/or producer of many national and international documentaries for major networks. His books

Darrett B. Rutman, assistant professor of Early American History at the University of Minnesota, is currently at work on a book about Boston during John Winthrop’s lifetime. For further reading: The Puritan

John M. Ryan was captured while he was a messenger for Company G, 334th Regiment, 84th Division, in the battle for the Siegfried Line. Today he lives in North Carolina.

The historian Richard C. Ryder was a consultant to the Academy of Natural Sciences on its new Dinosaur Hall.