Gay Talese is a writer and pioneer of "New Journalism," a movement in literary nonfiction that also included figures like Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Throughout the 60s, Talese reported for publications like the |
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Bernard Taper is a staff writer for The New Yorker . He is the editor of a volume of Mark Twain’s early journalism, Mark Twain’s San Francisco, the preface of which appeared in AMERICAN HERITAGE . |
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Professor Joel Tarr, of Carnegie-Mellon University, is an expert on the problems of America’s emerging urban centers in the early 1900’s.
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Jerome Tarshis is a free-lance writer living in San Francisco.
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Jeffrey Tayler is a U.S.-born author and journalist who has lived in Russia since 1993. He is the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and a contributor to several other magazines as well as to NPR's |
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ALAN TAYLOR is an American historian specializing in early United States history. He is the author of several books about the colonial history of the United States, the American Revolution, and the early |
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John M. Taylor is the author of the 1970 biography Garfield of Ohio: The Available Man .
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Candacy A. Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian working on a multidisciplinary project based on the Green Book. She is the author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book |
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A lifelong editor and publisher, Coley Taylor is now retired and living in Mexico.
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Teitelbaum, James is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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—Teller is the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller.
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A writer on architecture, Allan Temko has been teaching at the University of California at Berkeley. He is presently at work on a history of San Francisco Bay and its culture.
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—Edward Tenner is the author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences .
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AMERICAN HERITAGE BOOK SELECTION
COPYRIGHT © 1970 BY STUDS TERKEL
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test, test is member for American Heritage site since 2012. |
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Louise Hall Tharp’s most recent book is Adventurous Alliance , a biography of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz. She has also written biographies of Julia Ward Howe and Horace Mann. For further reading: Louis |
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John Demos is a professor of history at Yale University and the author most recently of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America . Robert Thayer owns an antiques business in Sheffield, |
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Themselves, is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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Mr. Thomas is a well-known writer whose latest book is Sam Ward: King of the Lobby . The present article is adapted from his history of Delmonico’s famous New York restaurant, to be published by Houghton |
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Benjamin P. Thomas was the author of the acclaimed Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York, 1952). His 1934 book, Lincoln’s New Salem, remains a classic study of the frontier community that was the setting for |
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Hugh Thomas, Professor of History at the University of Reading, England, is the author of Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (Harper & Row, 1971) and The Spanish Civil War (Harper & Row, 1977). |
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Thompson, Lewis is member for American Heritage site since 2013. |
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Bob Thompson is a former Washington Post journalist and the author of two books on American history. His first, Born on a Mountaintop, is an on-the-road exploration of the real and legendary Davy Crockett. His |
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David Thomson is the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood .
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Betty Flanders Thomson is associate professor of botany at Connecticut College in New London and is the author of The Changing Face of New England , which will soon be published by The Macmillan Company. |
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James Thomson, a member of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University, lectures on history there but is likely to be more familiar to readers as one of the experts who appeared on the ABC-TV network |
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John Thorn is the author of several books, among them three on baseball; The Invisible Game will be published by Doubleday next year.
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Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., one of the founders of this magazine and now a contributing editor, is at work on a book about the Atlantic coast.
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Joseph Jacobs Thorndike (1913 – 2005) was Managing Editor of Life for three years in the late 1940s, and a co-founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines. In June 1934, he started work at Time magazine, |
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Willis Thornton (1900-1965) was a journalist, historian, and editor. He joined Scripps-Howard in 1921, working for the CLEVELAND PRESS and then the Washington Daily News, where he became city editor. In 1930 |
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Tamara Thornton teaches nineteenth-century American history at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Thorp, Gregory is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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John Tidwell, a writer and television producer, lives in Maryland.
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Alan M. Tigay, who writes frequently about Brazil and trans-American immigration, is the editor of Hadassah Magazine.
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Bernard Timberg is the author of Television Talk: A History of TV Talk Shows .
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George B. Tindall, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, is the author of South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900 . He is now working on The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1946 , last of the |
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As a small boy, A. L. Todd met the hero of this article, who died in 1935 as a retired major general. Mr. Todd published Abandoned: The Story of The Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884 (McGraw-Hil, 1961), based |
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John Toland, a free-lance writer who lives in Red Bank, New Jersey, is the author of Ships in the Sky: The Story of the Great Dirigibles .
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Robert C. Toll is the author of Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1974) and On With the Show!: The First Century of Show Business in America (Oxford |
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A 1929 graduate of Annapolis, Admiral Tolley (1908—2000) was assistant naval attaché in Moscow from 1942 to 1944. He was the author of books on the history of the US Navy, including Yangtze Patrol, Cruise of |
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Tompkins, Joshua is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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—Jean K. Tool, a retired advertising executive, lives in Colorado.
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Mr. Tourtellot’s many books include William Diamond’s Drum: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (Doubleday, 1959) and Lexington and Concord (Norton, 1963). His principal sources for this |
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Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (1913-1977) was an editor, author, and television producer who wrote and developed many projects on political and military history including William Diamond’s Drum: The Beginning of |
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This article is a slightly modified excerpt from a speech delivered before the Civil War Round Table of Chicago on October 17, 1952, by William H. Townsend of Lexington, lawyer and author of Lincoln, the |
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Barbara Trafficanda is an independent writing and editing professional living in Orange County, California.
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The town archivist in Danvers, Massachusetts, Richard B. Trask is preparing a book on the photographic history of Kennedy’s assassination.
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James B. Trefethen is director of publications for the Wildlife Management Institute in Washmgon, D.C., and author of Crusade for Wildlife , a history of wildlife conservation published by the Boone and |
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Trillin, Calvin is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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Trimm, Warren P. is member for American Heritage site since 2011. |
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