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Gerald Nachman is the author, most recently, of Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s (Pantheon).

Nachman, Gerald

In addition to his recent Los Angeles: Mission to Modern City , of which this article forms a part, Remi Nadeau has written three other books on California history, among them The Water Seekers (Doubleday

Nadeau, Remi

Cynthia Nadelman is an art critic and poet who lives in New York City.

Nadelman, Cynthia

Ethan A. Nadelmann is assistant professor of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He chairs the Princeton Working Group on the

Nadelmann, Ethan A.

Both Dr. Castel and Dr. Nahm are members of the history department of Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo. This is Dr. Castel’s third appearance in AMERICAN HERITAGE ; a Kansan, he was formerly a Civil

Nahne, Andrew C.

David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Also an award-winning author, Nasaw has written such books as Andrew Carnegie, The

Nasaw, David
Nast, Thomas is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Nast, Thomas

Thomas J. Naughton, holder of an engineering degree from Princeton and a former magazine editor, is now a free-lance writer living in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Naughton, Thomas

Avon Neal and his wife, Ann Parker, tend fruitful vineyards of Americana at their home in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Their article on ephemeral folk figures appeared in our April, 1970, number, and their

Neal, Avon

Steve Neal is a political writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune , and the author of four books on American politics.

Neal, Steve

William Neely is an amateur pilot and author of numerous books on auto racing. This article is adapted from his book Pilots , published this August by Simon & Schuster.

Neely, William

Daniel Nelson, a professor of history at the University of Akron, is the author of Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, From the 182Os to the Present (Ivan R. Dee, 1997).

Nelson, Daniel

Richard L. Neuberger is the junior United States senator from Oregon and a native of that state. He is presenting the fee received for this article to Portland State College, to be awarded toward a scholarship

Neuberger, Richard L.

Allan Nevins (1890-1971) was an American historian and journalist, and Chairman of the American Heritage Advisory Board. He was known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies

Nevins, Allan
New, Emma Mitchell is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
New, Emma Mitchell

Wellington Newcomb is a practicing attorney in New York City. From 1954 to 1956 he was Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Newcomb, Wellington
Newhall, Nancy is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Newhall, Nancy

Proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, Mr. Newman is an experienced appraiser of manuscripts and collections in the fields of American history and literature. This article was adapted from a

Newman, Ralph G.
Nibbi, Jestine is member for American Heritage site since 2016.
Nibbi, Jestine

Tom Nicholas currently is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on linking historical U.S. patent records to Federal Censuses to examine the

Nicholas, Tom

Roy F. Nichols is vice-provost find dean of the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books on the American political cumule, including The Disruption of American

Nichols, Roy F.

Lauren Nicole is a freelance writer living in Austin who blogs at hipstercrite.com. She wrote the script for the film Loves Her Gun, which premiered at SXSW ‘13.

Nicole , Lauren
Nielsen, Arthur is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Nielsen, Arthur
Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Niemcewicz, Julian Ursyn

Glenn A. Niemeyer is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley Slate College. Allendale. Michigan, and is the author of The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds (Michigan State Univeristy

Niemeyer, Glenn A.
Nina, Elvis is member for American Heritage site since 2016.
Nina, Elvis

Ada Nisbet was a professor of English at UCLA who wrote several studies of nineteenth-century Anglo-American relations. She published Dickens and Ellen Ternan (1952) and edited Dickens Centennial Essays.

Nisbet, Ada
Nixon, Richard M. is member for American Heritage site since 2020.
Nixon, Richard M.

Mary Noel was educated at Radcliffe and Columbia University. She is the author of Villains Galore (Macmillan, 1954), about the era of the popular story weekly, and teaches history at the Polytechnic

Noel, Mary

Bennett Nolan, a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission lives in Reading. He has collected, over many year, the facts about these paintings and the people who appear in them.

Nolan, J. Bennett

William A. Nolen, M.D., graduated from Tufts medical school in 1953. He received his surgical training in the Cornell Surgical Division at Bellevue and served in the Army Medical Corps. He is currently the

Nolen, William A.

Michael Norman, a professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, co-authored Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Norman, Michael
Norman, Elizabeth M. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Norman, Elizabeth M.

David A. Norris is a freelance magazine writer and the former president of the Cape Fear Civil War Round Table. Born in Charlotte, Norris specializes in the Civil War, more specifically North Carolina's role.

Norris, David A.
Norton, Bobby is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Norton, Bobby

This article has been adapted from Mary Beth Norton’s forthcoming Liberty’s Daughters , to be published soon by Little, Brown & Co. Ms. Norton is an associate professor of history at Cornell University

Norton, Mary Beth

Jeanne Van Nostrand, formerly librarian of the California Historical Society, is co-author of California Pictorial (University of California Press, 1948), and of A Camera in the Gold Rush (Book Club of

Nostrand, Jeanne Van

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