Authors

Colonel Dupuy, who retired from the Army in 1946 after thirty years’ service is the author of Men of West Point and co-author of the forthcoming Military Heritage of America .

John Durant is the author of The Story of Baseball and (with Otto Bettmann) of The Pictorial History of American Sports . With his wife, Alice, he prepared the pictorial feature “A Century of Cooperstown” in the December, 1958, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE .

Michael S. Durham’s article on the Mound Builders of the Ohio River Valley appeared in the April 1995 issue of American Heritage .

John Dvorak currently operates a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Joseph D’O’Brian wrote “ The Business of Boxing ” in the October 1991 issue of American Heritage .

General Ira Clarence Eaker (1896 – 1987) was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942. He was the architect of the Allied strategic bombing force that ultimately numbered forty groups of 60 heavy bombers each, supported by a subordinate fighter command of 1,500 aircraft, most of which was in place by the time he relinquished command at the start of 1944.

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1982.

Clement Eaton, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, has written a life of Henry Clay for the “Library of American Biography” series, and is the author of other books about the South.

A professor of English at the University of Michigan, Cecil Eby has taken a particular interest in the Spanish Civil War and the literature related to it. This article is taken from Between the Bullet and the Lie, Professor Eby’s study of American volunteers in that war; the book will be published this fall by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

S. Max Edelson is  an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of The New Map of Empire and Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Prof. Edelson is also director of MapScholar, an online visualization platform for map history.

Dr. Edmunds is the Anne and Chester Watson Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Edmunds specializes in the History of Native Americans and the History of the American West, and won the Alfred Heggoy Prize for The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France.

William Waller Edwards is a retired colonel in the Regular Army, a graduate of West Point who served in the First World War and with the cavalry in the old West. Recently he has been engaged in writing a book on the last phases of the Revolution.

Dr. Sam Edwards, FRHistS, SFHEA, is a Reader in History in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His first book, Allies in Memory: World War II and the Politics of Transatlantic Commemoration, 1941-2001 (Cambridge, 2015) was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize. He has also authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters and edited three volumes exploring various issues in international history. When not reading World War II histories, Sam can often be found hiking with his spaniel Topsy, running the occasional ultra-marathon, or cycling through the Forest of Bowland. His website is www.runninghistorian.com.

Bob Edwards is an author and award-winning broadcast journalist who has worked for NPR, Sirius/XM Radio, and other outlets. He has won the duPont-Columbia Award for radio journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting for outstanding contributions to public radio, and a prestigious Peabody Institutional Award for excellence in broadcasting for his show “Morning Edition with Bob Edwards." Edwards was inducted into the national Radio Hall of Fame in November 2004.  Edwards has also written two books, including Fridays with Red, about his radio friendship with legendary sportscaster Red Barber, and most recently, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism.  

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. He is the author of six books, including He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802, and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America; and Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America, which was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Book Prize.

“U John Egerton is a journalist and historian whose books include The Americanization of Dixie and Visions of Utopia . He is currently at work on a history of Nashville, Tennessee.

Peter Stevens, who lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, writes frequently on historical themes. Marian Eide is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Program at the University of Pennsylvania. We would like to thank Dr. Stephen Lazoritz for his contributions to the research of this article. Lazoritz, a pediatrician specializing in child-abuse cases, first became interested in Mary Ellen’s history when, preparing for a lecture on child abuse, he read “The Great Meddler,” Gerald Carson’s profile of Henry Bergh in the December 1967 issue of American Heritage. Lazoritz was fascinated by the child and traced her history through a trail of documents and newspaper articles. In the story of Mary Ellen’s childhood he found the roots of a movement to prevent child abuse in which he is very much involved today.

Keith E. Eiler, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army (West Point, 1944), lives in Washington, D.C., where he currently is writing a biography of the late Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.

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Milton Stover Eisenhower, (1899 – 1985) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

John D. Eisenhower, the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is a retired United States Army officer and the author of several books on military history. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Jack El-Hai, who wrote about the Minneapolis-St. Paul census war in the July/August 1990 issue, lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Alexander Eliot is the author of many books, including The Horizon Concise History of Greece (1972) and the tentatively titled World of Myth , which is scheduled to be published in the fall of 1975 by McGraw-Hill.

Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books on the history of woman suffrage in the US, including Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America 1848-1869 (1978), Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (2020), and Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (Yale University Press, 1997), for which she won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. DuBois is also the coauthor, with Lynn Dumenil, of the leading textbook in US women’s history, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, and coeditor, with Vicki Ruiz, of Unequal Sisters: In Inclusive Reader in US Women’s History.

Ernest McNeill Eller was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1956 to 1970.

Joseph J. Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States. He is Professor of History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College, where he's taught since 1972. In addition to frequent public lectures throughout the United States, Ellis conducts seminars for federal judges with Professor Gordon Wood of Brown on “The Founders and Original Intent.” Ellis is the author of fourteen books, including Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000. He also won a National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson, and his in-depth chronicle of the life of the first president, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller.

Richard E. Ellis (1938-2009) was a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University at Buffalo, where he taught from 1974 until 2009. He was the author of several books and essays on the political history of the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian periods, including The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic and The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States′ Rights, and the Nullification Crisis.

Daniel Ellsberg is a lecturer, writer, activist, and whistleblower. A former analyst at the RAND corporation, he was an official in the Defense and State Departments under President Lyndon Johnson, and from 1965-1967 served in Vietnam studying pacification programs. By 1969, believing the Vietnam War unjust, Ellsberg photocopied a top-secret 7,000-page study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam, also known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1971, he leaked them to the New York Times and eighteen other newspapers. The government charged Ellsberg with twelve felony counts with a possible sentence of 115 years, but the case was dismissed in 1973 when Watergate inquiries exposed criminal misconduct against Ellsberg by the Nixon White House.

Jason Emerson, an independent historian writing from Cazenovia, New York, is the author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), Lincoln the Inventor (SIUP, January 2009), and the recently released The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, As Revealed by Her Own Letters (SIUP, February 2011). He frequently contributes to American Heritage Magazine.

Arye Emert 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay High School (Grade 11) West Windsor @ Plainsboro High School South Princeton Junction, New Jersey Sponsoring Teachers: Leslie Levin and Brian Welch

André Emmerich, a former staff member of Time-Life International, World Magazine, Réalitiés, and the New York Herald Tribune, operates a gallery in New York City specializing in the ancient arts of Mexico and Central America. He is co-author (with Miguel Covarrubias) of Mezcala—Ancient Mexican Sculpture and is now at work on a general introduction to pre-Columbia art.

Duncan Emrich was the chief of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress and Professor of American Folklore at American University. Emrich's book Folklore on the American Land, is a seminal overview of folk beliefs, grammar, and legends of the American way of life. His other books include The Folklore of Weddings and Marriage, The Folklore of Love and Courtship, and The Cowboys Own Brand Book.

Fred L. Engelman, a former teacher of history, is now with a New York advertising agency. He is at work on a book about the final year of the War of 1812. For further reading: History of the United States of America , by Henry Adams, Vols. 7–9 (Albert and Charles Boni, 1930); The Era of Good Feelings , by George Dangerfield (Harcourt, Brace, 1951); The Diary of John Quincy Adams , edited by Allan Nevins (Scribner’s, 1951).

Larry Engelmann is a professor of history at San Jose State University, in San Jose, California.

Paul Engle (1908 – 1991), anoted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa whose “ An Iowa Christmas ” appeared in our December, 1957 issue.

R. D. Eno, a Vermont free-lance writer, conducted the research for this article under the sponsorship of the Nova Scotia Departments of Tourism and Recreation.

Evarts Erickson is a free-lance writer who lives in Boston and denies that he has ever seen a sea serpent.

Jody Ericson is a freelance writer living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Willard R. Espy is a public-relations consultant. This article is adapted from his book Home to Oysterville , to be published this fall.

J. Worth Estes is a professor of pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Kenneth E. Ethridge was a high school teacher and freelance writer based in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Diane Carlson Evans served in the Army Nurse Corps in 1968 and 1969 in the Vung Tau and Pleiku provinces, and is the author of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, DC. She was the founder and president of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, and worked for ten years to create that memorial to the 250,000 women who served in Vietnam.