Authors

Thom Hatch is an award-winning author and biographer of Native American and American military history. His recently completed Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Freedom and Justice, was released by St. Martin's Press.

Don Hausrath is a retired Foreigh Service officer who worked in China, the Soviet Union and other postings around the world. He is the author of From Agincourt to Zanzibar: A Where-in-the-World Guide to 300+ Places (Capital Travels), and currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mrs. Haverstock, a free-lance writer on art, has just completed a biography of the painter George Catlin for young readers. It will be published next year.

Walter Havighurst got his able seaman’s papers working on Great Lakes boats and wrote The Long Ships Passing about them. He is a professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Kevin J. Hayes is emeritus professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of George Washington: A Life in Books (Oxford), The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (Oxford) and The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas (University of Virginia Press). Hayes now lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio.

Caitlin Hayes is a staff writer at Cornell University. Previously, she was an editor at Momentum Media and taught writing at Syracuse University. Ms. Hayes has a masters degree in English from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA, Fiction from Syracuse.

Mrs. Hazelton has published essays, articles, and a children’s play on historical subjects. Quotations from Jefferson’s Day Book are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

—Lesley Hazleton, an automotive columnist for the Detroit Free Press , is the author of Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey .

David Head is an historian, author, and lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is the author of four books, including Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic, which won the 2016 John Gardner Maritime Research Award at Mystic Seaport Museum, as well as A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Book Prize.

Gavan Daws is at work on a history of Honolulu which will be his doctoral dissertation at the University of Hawaii. Timothy Head is a research fellow with the East-West Center of the same institution.

— William Least Heat-Moon’s book Columbus in the Americas was published this summer.

Dr. Robert L. Heilbroner is the author of The Worldly Philosophers, The Future as History , and The Great Ascent . For further reading: God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times , by John T. Flynn (Harcourt, Brace, 1932); Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist , by Allan Nevins (Scribner’s, 1953); Random Reminiscences of Men and Events , by John D. Rockefeller (Doubleday, 1933)

A native of Washington, D.C., and a fire buff of long standing, Colonel HeM witnessed the fire at the White House in 1929, when he was thirteen years old. After twenty-seven years in the Marine Corps, he retired in 1964 to become an author and lecturer and is currently defense correspondent of the Detroit News . Colonel Heinl’s Victory at High Tide: the Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Lippmcott, 1968) won the Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Award in 1968.

George M. Heinzman came across the personal accounts of the participants in the Battle of Beecher Island while doing research for his historical novel, Only the Earth and the Mountains , which was published by Macmillan in 1964. For further reading: The Long Death, by Ralph K. Andrist (Macmillan, 1964); The Compact History of the Indian Wars , by john Tebbel (Hawthorn, 1966).

Robert Ferrell’s Harry S. Truman: A Life was published last year by the University of Missouri Press.

Geoffrey Hellman is well known to readers of The New Yorker, where his “profiles” and satirical pieces have appeared frequently for many years. He lives in New York City.

Jesse Helms, a Republican from North Carolina, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This essay is adapted from an address given at the U.S. Capitol Historical Society’s recent dinner honoring the committee.

Mark Helprin’s novels include A Soldier of the Great War, Winter’s Tale , and Memoir From Antproof Case .

Kevin Hemstock is the mayor of Millington, Maryland, and the longtime editor of the Kent County News. He is also the author of Injustice on the Eastern Shore: Race and the Hill Murder Trial.

Mr. Henry is a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. He has been a consultant to various agencies of the federal government, and is the author of Presidential Transitions , published in 1960.

Tom Heppenheimer, an associate fellow at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is a free-lance writer. Dr. Heppenheimer received his Ph.D in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and his books include Countdown: A History of Space Flight (Wiley 1997).

Gregg Herken is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California in Santa Cruz, specializing in Cold War history. He is the author of five books on American diplomacy and nuclear history, including Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller, and The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington.  Herken has also worked as a museum curator, having served as chairman of the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Michele Herman is a New York freelancer who writes often about design.

—Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 .

J. Christopher Herold was an editor at Columbia University Press and Stanford University Press as well as the author of numerous books, including Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael, which won the National Book Award.

Lamar Herrin teaches English at Cornell; The Unwritten Chronicles of Robert E. Lee was published last year by St. Martin’s Press.

Stephen Hess, one of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (2004-2009). Served on White House staff during Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter. Hess is the author of numerous books including The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House, American Political Cartoons: From 1754 to 2010; Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas, and  America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton.  

Katie Hickman is the author of ten books. Her most recent work, Brave Hearted, was preceded by She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 - 1900 (published in 2019), and by the highly-acclaimed series of novels, The Aviary Gate, The Pindar Diamond and The House at Bishopsgate, a trilogy set in early seventeenth century Constantinople, Venice, London, and rural Wiltshire. She is also the author of two best-selling history books, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia.

Mr. Hicks, an editor of Popular Mechanics , lives in Elmhurst, Illinois. He is the author of several juveniles, including Alvin’s Secret Code (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963). 97

Don Higginbotham is chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina. His essay on Vietnam and the Revolution appeared in the October/November 1981 issue.

David Higgs is a photographer and journalist living in England.

As a historical researcher for over forty years, Michael Hill has assisted such authors as Michael Beschloss, Susan Eisenhower, Sebastian Junger, Michael Korda, David McCullough, Jon Meacham, and Nathaniel Philbrick. He won an Emmy in 1991 for his work as a co-producer on the Ken Burns PBS "Civil War" series narrated by David McCullough. He also served as a historical consultant on the HBO mini-series, "John Adams" and the ABC-TV mini-series, "Challenger" about the space shuttle disaster.  Hill is the author of three books including most recently Funny Business, a biography of Art Buchwald. His previous books were Elihu Washburne, the diaries and correspondence of America's Minister to France during the siege and commune of Paris, and War Poet: The Life of Alan Seeger and His Rendezvous With Death.

Ralph Nading Hill is a native Vermonter, a trustee of the Shelburne Museum, an editor of the state magazine Vermont Life , and author of Contrary Country, The Winooski (one of the Rivers of America series) and Sidewheeler Saga . But his greatest job, he says, was the presidency of the Shelburne Steamboat Company, last operators of the Ti.

Laura Hillenbrand is an American author best known for her first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, released in 2001. She won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for Seabiscuit, and its popularity led to its adaptation into the Academy Award-nominated film. In 2010 Hillenbrand finished her second book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which recalls the story of World War II hero Louis Zamperini.

Anita W. Hinckley has lived in Rhode Island for eighty years, and with a wry Yankee wit remembers almost every minute of them. This is her first appearance in a national magazine.

Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, and comparative colonization. Prof. Hinderaker is the co-author of several textbooks on American history.  His 2010 book, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (Harvard University Press, 2010), was awarded the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize by the New York State Historical Society and the Herbert H. Lehman Prize by the New York Academy of History. He is also author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800, and At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

The author is senior historian at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. His most recent book is Emulation and Invention , published last year by New York University Press.