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Nathan Ward

Nathan Ward is an author and journalist who served as an editor at American Heritage. In 2010 Ward published Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. Ward frequently writes for The New York Times, and he lives in Brooklyn.

Articles by this Author

One of the half-dozen most famous Americans of the twentieth century steps into full daylight
The City of Churches and Henry Ward Beecher, of Walt Whitman, Coney Island, and a famously departed baseball team is ready for its next act—as a world-class tourist destination
There’s no place like home—especially if it’s an ancient railway barge
Hungry?, August/September 2005 | Vol. 56, No. 4
Five Brooklyn classics will take care of that
A talk with the superb journalist and sports report who was the co-author of MASH and wrote Ernest Hemingway’s favorite fight novel
When terrorists first struck New York’s financial district
Carter, Kennedy, and Me
A Sporting Life, October 1999 | Vol. 50, No. 6
The author of America’s best-loved baseball book speaks of his days as a reporter, of his time (unique among sportswriters) owning a team, and of his latest subject, Jack Dempsey, whose violent career he uses to illuminate an era
A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
Red Cloud’s Deal
The greatest war in history came to an end on November 11, but not without a final cruel twist.
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Dear John Smith
Lesbian Chic
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Nixon Redux; Fighting Shirley
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Birth of the Yale Woman
Time Machine, September 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 5
Schermerhorn, the Rain King
Unclean Gene
Lights Out, July/August 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 4
Keeping It On
Philadelphia Fever
His Truth Goes Marching On
She Thumped Her Last
Yanks Make Good