Joseph Connor

Joseph Connor is a Contributing Editor of American Heritage, retired prosecutor at the Morris County (NJ) Prosecutor's Office, and a member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar.

He also worked as a copy editor at the Morris County Daily Record.

Mr. Connor earned a B.A. in History at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a J.D. at Rutgers Law School.

Articles by this Author

America 50: The First Jubilee, Summer 2026 | Vol. 71, No. 3

“And so old Mr. Adams is dead; on the 4th of July, too, just half a century after our Declaration of Independence...”

Whose Face Should Be “Immortalized Upon the Public Money”?, Summer 2026 | Vol. 71, No. 3

Congress forbade living persons from appearing on paper currency in 1866, after an unpopular Treasury Department official put himself on the five-cent note.

Lincoln's Illegal Arrests, Spring 2026 | Vol. 71, No. 2

A Constitutional crisis erupted when President Lincoln authorized the Army to arrest suspicious persons without due process after Maryland rebels tried to cut off Washington.

The Birth of Birthright Citizenship, Fall 2025 | Vol. 70, No. 4

A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment.

The Controversial Career of Col. Corcoran, November/December 2024 | Vol. 69, No. 5

Michael Corcoran led New York’s Irish brigade to glory in the Civil War after being disciplined for refusing to parade in honor of Britain's Prince of Wales.

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