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Rowse, A. L. 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 work on Elizabethan England. Rowse wrote some 100 books, including the bestseller, the autobiographical A Cornish Childhood, that sold nearly hal |  |
Rowsome,, Frank Jr. 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 recently published by the Stephen Greene Press.
COPYRIGHT © 1965 BY FRANK ROWSOME, JR. |  |
Rubenstein, Ephraim Ephraim Rubenstein is an artist and an instructor in drawing at the Art Students League of New York. | |
Rudd, Hughes 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, ABC News. He also is the author of My Escape From the CIA (And Other Improbable Events) , published in 1966. | |
Rudin, MaxRudin 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, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Mr. Rudin writes on American history, literature, music, and popular culture for American Heritage and Raritan maga |  |
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Ruse, Timothy C.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 and Prisoner of the Japanese 1942-1945 (Timothy C. Ruse, 2011). | |
Russell, Francis Francis Russell, a frequent contributor, is the author of Adams: An American Dynasty , a book recently published by American Heritage. | |
Russell, Franklin 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. | |
Russell, John John Russell, an art critic for The New York Times , is the author of many books about art and artists. | |
Russell, Preston
Preston Russell, a pathologist in Savannah, Georgia, is completing a book about the personal relationship between Lafayette and Washington.
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Russell lld, W H 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 War for the London Times , and he was the only reporter on board the | |
Russo, GusFor 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 have received Book of the Month Club and History Book Club Featured Selections, three have been optioned for films, and one, The Outfit was a Pulitzer nominee. His October 2008 book, |  |
Rutman, Darrett B. 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 Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop , by Edmund S. Morgan (Little, Brown, 1958). | |
Ryan, John M. 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. | |
Ryder, Richard C.
The historian Richard C. Ryder was a consultant to the Academy of Natural Sciences on its new Dinosaur Hall.
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Safer, Morley Morley Safer, correspondent for CBS, is the author of Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. | |
Salisbury, Harrison E.
Harrison E. Salisbury has spent many years as a correspondent in the Soviet Union, beginning in World War II, and is the author of The Nine Hundred Days: The Siege of Leningrad and many other works on Russia. His latest book is The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng , publi | |
Salvatore, Victor Victor Salwtore, a retired newspaper editor, is writinga book about the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown . | |
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Sanderson, Ivan T.
British-born Ivan Sanderson began writing about zoology and natural history in Animal Treasure in 1935, and has done several books since, many of which he has illustrated himself. His most recent work is Follow the Whale (Little, Brown, 1956).
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Sandrof, Ivan
Ivan Sandrof, a native of Massachusetts, is a staff feature writer for the Worcester Sunday Telegram and a member of the executive board fo the Worcester Historical Society.
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Sanger, Steve A former reporter for The Seattle Times Post-Intelligencer, Steve Sanger co-authored Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford with Dr. Ferenc Szasz, Dr. Bruce Hevly, and Dr. Craig Wollner in 1995. Sanger's work as a freelance reporter has been published in The Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press. | |
Sard, Ellis
C. W. Nimitz
Admiral, U.S. Navy
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Saroyan, William EDITOR’S NOTE: Several months ago, we received a cache of little-known photographs through the courtesy of California historian Richard Steven Street. They were taken by Claude (“Pop”) Lavai, a long-time resident of California’s San Joaquin Valley (see Mr. Street’s profile on page 60), and documented life in and around Fresno in the teens and | |
Sarris, Andrew
—Andrew Sarris is the author most recently of You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film—History and Memory, 1927-1949 .
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Sassaman, Richard
Richard Sassaman, who writes frequently about archaeology and anthropology, lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania.
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Saudek, Robert Born and reared in Pittsburgh, Mr. Saudek himself spent five years at KDKA as an editor. He was later an executive at , ABC, and the Ford foundation. As an independent television producer, he is responsible for the Omnibus show and for Profiles in Courage, which recently received a Peabody award. | |
Saunders, Frances W. Mrs. Saunders, a former research chemist and science editor whose interests now have turned to history, is at work on a biography of Ellen Axson Wilson, the President ‘s first wife. | |
Saunders, Richard Richard Saunders is co-author of Living With Wicker (Crown Publishers, 1992). | |
Sax, Joseph L. | |
Saxton, MarthaMartha Saxton is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. Professor Saxton has undertaken biographies of figures as diverse as 1950s bombshell Jayne Mansfield and nineteenth-century author and reformer Louisa May Alcott. Her most recent publication is Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America (Hill and Wang, 2003). But she is presently returning to biograph |  |
Scheer, George F. Mr. Scheer is the editor of Private Yankee Doodle , the diary of a Revolutionary soldier. He wislies to tliank for their co-operation Dr. Francis S. Ronalds, superintendent of the Morrisdown National Historical Park; Norman C. Fisher, formerly superintendent of Washington Crossing Slate Park; and Ann Hatches Hutton, auth | |
Scherman, Tony Tony Scherman is the author of Backbeat: Earl Palmer’s Story (Smithsonian; Da Capo paperback), about one of the fathers of rock ’n’ roll. | |
Schick, James B. m. | |
Schickel, Richard Richard Schickel is a film critic and documentary film maker and contributor who has written for Time and The Los Angeles Times Book Review, among other publications. In his time as a critic. Schickel has made over 30 documentaries, covering Charlie Chaplin, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and World War II cameramen. For his other works, he has held a Gu |  |
Schiff, Stacy —Stacy Schiff is the author of Saint-Exupéry: A Biography and Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) . | |
Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft
Elizabeth B. Schlesinger (Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.) has long been a commentator in magazines and scholarly journals on the role of women in American life. She is the wife of one noted historian and the mother of another.
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Schlesinger, Arthur Jr. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) was a historian, author, and political adviser who served as Special Assistant to President John Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. Working in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the CIA, during World War II, Schlesinger next won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Age of Jackson. Schlesinger ta |  |
Schlesinger, Marian Cannon Marian Cannon Schlesinger is a painter and author living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
Schlesinger,, Arthur M. Jr.
The revised and expanded edition of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society , from which this article is excerpted, is being published in March by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Schoemer, Karen Karen Schoemer writes about modern popular music and has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and other noted newspapers and magazines. She spent five years as a pop-music critic for Newsweek, and published Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair With 50s Pop Music in 2007. |  |
Schonauer, David
— David Schonauer is the editor in chief of American Photo magazine.
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Schonberg, Harold C. Senior music critic of the New York Times , Mr. Schonberg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the author of many books on the history of music. | |
Schorer, Mark “I know more about the life of Sinclair Lewis,” so Mark Schorer has written, “day by day, sometimes hour by hour, than he himself could possibly have known or than I know of my own past.” For nine years Professor Schorer has immersed himself in his subject; the result, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life , is a monu | |
Schrank, Joseph Joseph Schrank is currently working on a book about his days in Hollywood. | |
Schroder, Robert Robert Schroder
Cincinnati, Ohio | |
Schudson, Michael Michael Schudson, a professor of communications at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life , published last year by Free Press. | |
Schultz, FredFred Schultz serves as managing editor of Proceedings magazine, a U.S. Naval Institute publication. Schultz has worked for the U.S. Naval Institute since 1989 and previously served as editor-in-chief for Naval History magazine. | |
Schutzer, A. I.
A.I. Schutzer is a free-lance writer whose work has appeared in many national magazines. He published Great Civil War Escapes (1967), which recounted true stories of escapes from Libby Prison in Virginia, Elmira Prison in New York, and other lockups. He has also published numerous juvenile books.
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Schwartz, Stephan A. Stephan A. Schwartz is a writer, television producer, and the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute. Schwartz is a columnist for Explore magazine, and has led mapping and archaelogical journeys all over the world.
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Schwartz, Alan Alan Schwartz is the senior writer of Baseball America magazine and the author of The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination With Statistics . | |
Schwarz, Frederic D. | |
Schwarz, Alan
—Alan Schwarz is a columnist for Baseball America magazine and a frequent contributor to The New York Times .
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Scott, Anne Firor
Anne Firor Scott, a former lecturer in history at the University of North Carolina, is at work on a biography of Jane Addams. She is currently in Italy, where her husband is a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Bologna.
For further reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House , by Jane Addams (Mac | |
Scott, Winfield Townley COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY ELEANOR M. SCOTT | |
Scull, Penrose Penrose Scull, author of many articles on business and business history, is currently working on a book about the early history of selling in the United States. | |
Sears, Stephen W.Stephen W. Sears is an American historian who specializes in the Civil War. A graduate of Oberlin College, Sears has written Chancellorsville, Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam, Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac, and, most recently, Gettysburg, released in 2003.He was employed as editor of the Educational Departm |  |
Seiber, Lones A native Tennessean, Lones Selber was seven at the time of the events he describes here. He watched the battle from the corner of White and Washington streets.
The editors wish to thank Thomas J. Baker, Jr., whose study of the McMinn County political machine provided valuable additional information. | |
Selden, Harry Louis
Harry Louis Seiden, for many years an editor and writer on foreign and domestic affairs, is vice chairman of the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, and a member of the National Committee for an Effective Congress.
For further reading: A History of Presidential Elections , by Eugene H. Roseboom | |
Selig, Robert A.
Robert A. Selig wrote “Private Flohr’s Other Life” in the October 1994 issue.
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Sellers, Charles Coleman | |
Sergent, Mary Elizabeth Mary Elizabeth Sergent has long been interested in the story of John Pelham and his classmates. She is currently engaged in writing a novel based on Pelham’s life. | |
Serrin, William
William Serrin is a New York Times reporter who specializes in labor subjects.
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Sevareid, EricEric Sevareid (1912–1992) was a CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents—dubbed "Murrow's Boys"—because they were hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow. Born in Velva, North Dakota, he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1935. |  |
Severin, Timothy
Timothy Severin is an English writer who specializes in the history of exploration. He is the author of The Horizon Book of Vanishing Primitive Man , which was published last year by this company, and is currently at work on a book about travellers and explorers in the Far East.
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Sewall, Richard B.
Richard B. Sewall taught English at Yale from 1934 to 1976 and served as Master of Ezra Stiles College, 1959-70. His publications include The Vision of Tragedy and The Life of Emily Dickinson . | |
Seymour, Charles | |
Seymour, Gene Gene Seymour is a film critic at Newsday and is the author of Jazz: The Great American Art. | |
Shakespeare, William | |
Shannon, William V.
William V. Shannon is on the editorial board of the New York Times . He is the author of The American Irish and of The Heir Apparent , a study of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both lniblished by Marmillan.
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Shapiro, Samuel Professor Shapiro, who recently returned from a year in Argentina on a Fulbright fellowship, now teaches history at Michigan State University Oakland at Rochester, Michigan. He is at work on a study of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
For further reading: Dana’s Autobiographical Sketches (The Shoe String Press, 1953); | |
Shapiro, Fred C. Mr. Shapiro worked on the Herald Tribune ‘s rewrite desk from 1962 to 1965. He is now on the staff of The New Yorker .
The major source for the last century of the Tribune ‘s history is The New Y | |
Sharpe,, Ernest Jr.
Ernest Sharpe, Jr., is a writer living in Austin, Texas.
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Sheed, Wilfrid —Wilfrid Sheed is working on a book about the great American songwriters of the thirties and forties. | |
Shenker, Israel Israel Shenker, a reporter for the New York Times , interviewed Mr. Landon recently in Topeka. | |
Shepard, Alan B.
Shepard’s account of his flight is adapted from Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, with Jay Barbree and Howard Benedict, just issued by Turner Publishing.
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Shepherdson, Nancy Nancy Shepherdson wrote about the birth of the federal income tax in our March 1989 issue. | |
Sheppard, Carol
Carol Sheppard, who lives in Boulder, Colorado, works as a dissertation editor and typist and also writes fiction.
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Sherwood, David David Sherwood is an advertising copywriter who lives in Hartford, Connecticut. He has written often on the history of his town. | |
Shi, David This article is adapted from David Shi’s forthcoming book, The Simple Life , which will be published soon by Oxford University Press. Dr. Shi is a professor of history at Davidson College in North Carolina. | |
Shields, Stephen Stephen Shields is a writer living in Aurora, Ohio. | |
Shirer, William L. William L. Shirer is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich . This account has been adapted from The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940 , which is Volume II of20th Century Journey and will be published soon by Little, Brown & Co. | |
Shogan, Robert
Mr. Shogan, who is a member of the staff of Newsweek , is the co-author of The Detroit Race Riot (Chilian, 1964).
For further reading: Out of the Jaws of Victory , by Jules Abels (Holt, 1959); The Tr | |
Shorter, EdwardEdward Shorter Ph.D., is a social historian of medicine, clinical scientist, and professor at the University of Toronto. Shorter has published widely in this field, including the histories of obstetrics and gynecology (Women’s Bodies), the doctor-patient relationship (Doctors and Their Patients), psychosomatic illness (From Paralysis to Fatigue), and sexuality (Written in the Flesh: A History of |  |
Shoumatoff, Alex This article was adapted from Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest (Knopf), Alex Shoumatoff’s tenth book. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair , he lives with his wife and five children on a mountain in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. | |
Shuttleworth, Jack
Mr. Shuttleworth was editor of the humorous weekly Judge from the mid-twenties to the mid-thirties and later succeeded Oliver La Farge as editor of the Alliance Book Corporation. He was written several books, and has contributed to most of the popular British, Canadian, and American magazines.
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Sibbald, John R. | |
Captain Sibbald, John R. | |
Sides, HamptonHampton Sides is an author and the editor-at-large for Outside Magazine. In addition to his journalism, Sides has written five books, including Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, and Blood and Thunder. Twice nominated for the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, his articles can be found in National Geographic, The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Washington |  |
Siegal, Benjamin | |
Sifton, Samuel | |
Dr. Silberger,, Julius Jr.
This article is adapted from Julius Silberger, Jr.’s biography, The Will to Believe: The Life and Times of Mary Baker Eddy , published recently by Little, Brown. Dr. Silberger is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He first got interested in Mary Baker Eddy because Christian Science and psychoanalysis both arose in part | |
Silberman, Charles E. Charles E. Silberman, a former editor of Fortune, is a member of the Joint Committee on Juvenile Justice Standards of the American Bar Association. His 1978 best seller, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice , won an award from the Criminal Justice Section of the New York State Bar Association. | |
Silverberg, RobertRobert Silverberg has been a professional writer since 1955, widely known for his science fiction and fantasy stories. He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was designated as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His books and stories have been translated into forty languages. Among his best kn |  |
Silverman, E. H. E. H. Silverman, a former staff member of True and Argosy, is now a free-lance magazine writer living in Ardsley, N. Y. | |
Sim, Jillian A.
Jillian A. Sim is working on a book about her family.
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Sim, Jillian | |
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
