Authors

Thomas Hine is a writer on history, culture and design. He is the author of five books, including The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. He contributes frequently to magazines, including The Magazine Antiques, Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record and others. For several years, he was a senior contributing writer to Home Miami and Home Fort Lauderdale.

Robert V. Hine is a professor of history at the University of California at Riverside. This article is based on his book, Bartlett’s West , to be published shortly by the Yale University Press. The bulk of the art that came out of the border survey—both Bartlett’s efforts and those of the men he commissioned—has been housed at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, with which Bartlett was associated from 1856 until his death thirty years later. The works will be on loan to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, for an exhibition that opens this month.

Martin Hintz has written more than 80 books, along with dozens of magazine and newspaper articles about his home city of Milwaukee.

Jessie Heckman Hirschl has reviewed books and contributed light verse to magazines. For the past ten years she has made a research hobby of collecting material on “the greatest of all fairs,” which in her view differed from every other that preceded or followed it. For further reading: Fabulous Chicago , by Emmett Dedmon (Random House, 1953); Chicago: The History of Its Reputation , by Lloyd Lewis and Justin Smith (Harcourt, Brace, 1929); As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933 (University of Chicago Press, 1933).

Linda Hirshman is a lawyer, cultural historian, and author of several books, including Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, and Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. Her latest work is The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation, which chronicles the alliance between abolitionists Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman.

This essay on Thoreau will be the introduction to The Maine Woods , a reprint of the Thoreau classic in a new nature series to be published in September by Penguin. The essay will also be included in an anthology of Mr. Hoagland’s writings to be issued this fall by Summit Books. Mr. Hoagland’s last contribution to American Heritage was a profile, “Johnny Appleseed,” in December 1979.

Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ''Hoch'' as in "spoke"; ''schild'' as in "build") published his first book, "Half the Way Home" in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." His "Bury the Chains" was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Two of his books, “To End All Wars” and “King Leopold’s Ghost,” have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The American Historical Association gave Hochschild its 2008 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, a prize given each year to someone outside the academy who has made a significant contribution to the study of history.

—Woody Hochswender, a former style reporter for The New York Times and columnist for Harper’s Bazaar , is the author of Men’s Wardrobe .

Margaret Hodges, a professor emeritus at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, is a historian and author of children’s books. She wishes to acknowledge the help of Ellen Shaffer, curator of the Silverado Museum.

—Moira Hodgson is food critic for The New York Observer .

Edwin A. Hoey, who lives in Middletown, Connecticut, is managing editor of secondary English publications at Xerox Education Publications.

Mr. Hoey, whom we are pleased to welcome to our pages, is senior editor of Read magazine, a periodical used in junior high schools; he lives in Middletown, Connecticut. The many sources for his article included two books by William S. Thomas: Members of the Society of the Cincinnati (Tobias A. Wright, Inc., 1929) and The Society of the Cincinnati (Putnam, 1935).

Joan Hoff is a research professor of history at Montana State University. She is a former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, former executive director of the Organization of American Historians, and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University.  She is the author of Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (reissued, 1992),  Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women (2nd edition, 1994), Nixon Reconsidered (1994), The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary (2000) and A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (2007) among other works.

Lilian Takahashi Hoffecker, a writer and anthropology teacher, lives in Colorado.

Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970), was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Hofstadter won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1956 for The Age of Reform, and in 1964 for the cultural history Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.

Historian Beatrice K. Hof stadter has recently revised Volume HI of Great Issues in American History , which she wrote with her late husband, Richard Hofstadter, in 1958.

Donald W. Hogan is assistant city editor of the New York Herald Tribune . A free-lance writer whose major interest is American history, he has contributed articles to several national magazines.

Stewart H. Holbrook of Portland, Oregon, has contributed a number of articles to AMERICAN HERITAGE , including “Daylight in the Swamp” (October, 1958) and “The Paintings of Mr. Otis” (April, 1959). His latest book, The Golden Age of Quackery , was published in 1959 by Macmillan. For further reading: Gilbert Patten and His Frank Merriwell Saga , by John L. Cutler (University of Maine, 1934); The Fiction Factory , by Quentin Reynolds (Random House, 1956); The House of Beadle & Adams , Vol. I, by Albert Johannsen (University of Oklahoma, 1950).

Stewart Holbrook is a native Vermonter transplanted to Oregon. A magazine contributor and author of many books, he last wrote The Age of the Moguls , a recent best-seller.

Charles J. Holden is a professor of history at Saint Mary's College of Maryland, where he's taught 19th and 20th century history since 1999. His research has focused on the history of the American South and the history of academic freedom, and he's published two books on the subjects. The first, In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina (2002), examines the persistence of a southern conservative ideological tradition following defeat in the Civil War, while the second, The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC (2011), looks at the emergence of the University of North Carolina as a modern southern university.  Holden is co-author of Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America, published by the University of Virginia Press in 2019. 

Max Holland is writing a history of the Warren Commission to be published next year by Basic Books.

Anne Hollander, an art historian, is the author of Seeing through Clothes (Viking Penguin). Her new book, Moving Pictures , will be published by Knopf in the spring.

A native Texan and specialist in southwestern history, W. Eugene Hollon is a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He has written biographies of Zebulon Pike and Randolph Marcy.

Anna Holloway is the curator of the USS Monitor Center, The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.

Paul Holmes is the founder and chair of PRovoke Media, a media company that covers the public relations business across the Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been writing about public relations for more than 25 years. Holmes began his career in local newspapers in the north of England and also worked for a newspaper group in South London before joining PR Week as news editor in 1985. He was inducted into the International Communications Consultancy Organisation Hall of Fame in 2011.

Kirsten A. Holmstedt is an author and journalist who has written two books about American servicewomen fighting in Iraq and their experiences. Holmstedt's first book, Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, was released in 2008; a year later, she followed with The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq. Holmstedt began her research as a Creative Nonfiction Writing graduate student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she worked closely with servicewomen stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune as they returned from Iraq.

Historian Michael E. Holt was the author of The Political Crisis of the 1850s.

Thomas C. Holt is a historian and the James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora, including Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction (Illinois, 1977), Children of Fire: A History of African Americans  (Hill & Wang, 2010), and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (Harvard, 2002). His most recent book is The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (OUP, 2021), which chronicles the mid-twentieth-century freedom movement and its enduring legacy.

Michael F. Holt is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in 19th Century and political history. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party and By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Holt earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. Johns Hopkins. He has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities (1976-77), the National Humanities Center (1987-88), and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. In 2000 he was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

—John B. Holway is the author of a dozen books on baseball.

Harold Holzer, a frequent contributor and winner of a 2005 Lincoln Prize for Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster 2006), has written more than 40 books about the 16th president. He currently chairs The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush in 2008. Holzer, educated at the City University of New York, first worked as a newspaper editor for The Manhattan Tribune, served as a political campaign press secretary for Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug and Governor Mario Cuomo, and currently works as a Senior Vice President at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dr. Robert S. Holzman, professor of taxation at New York University, is the author of Stormy Ben Butler and General “Baseball” Doubleday . His pictorial history. The Romance of Fire Fighting , will be published next year.

Roy Hoopes is the Washington bureau chief of Modern Maturity and the author of several books, including Americans Remember the Homefront , recently reissued in paperback.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929-1933 and Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. After the United States entered World War I President Wilson appointed him as the head of the U.S. Food Administration, and Hoover's rationing policies helped feed American servicemen. His humanitarian efforts helped feed needy civilians in Europe after both world wars, and he oversaw the development of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, his alma mater. President Hoover passed away at the age of 90 on October 20, 1964 in New York City.

Robert Hoover is the former Book Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Jack Hope is a-New York writer and naturalist who has trapped more than five hundred mice, all with Victor snap traps.

George E. Hiipkins is associate professor of history at Western Illinois University. A former military pilot, he is the author of The Airline Pilots (Harvard University Press, 1971). For further reading on related subjects in AMERICAN HERITAGE , see “The Intrepid Mr. Curtiss,” April, 1975, and “Barnstorming the U.S. Mall,” August, 1974.

Robert Hopkins is the president of the Harry Hopkins Public Service Institute, which honors his father's service as the Secretary of Commerce under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hopkins, who covered the Yalta Conference as Roosevelt's personal photographer in 1945, became a prominent documentary producer, and worked with the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe and South America. He published his memoirs, Witness to History: Recollections of a World War II Photographer, in 2003.

Paul Horgan has spent much of his life in New Mexico and has written extensively about the Southwest. Portions of his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Rio Grande, Great River , appeared in the first issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE . He is now at work on a biography of Archbishop Lamy.

Dara Horn’s article on tracing Civil War Boston appeared in the April 1998 issue. The tenement building is open to visitors by guided tour only. Tours leave 90 Orchard Street every half hour every day save Monday. Call for exact times (212-431-0233) or check the museum’s Web site: www.tenement.org .

Dr. James Horn is the President of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, affiliated with Preservation Virginia. Previously, he was Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He has also served as Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Editor of Publications at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary, and taught for twenty years at the University of Brighton, England, before moving to the US.

Karen Hornick teaches interdisciplinary studies on cultural history, gender theory, literature, and media at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She received the Gallatin Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009.

—Mark Horowitz is an editor at New York magazine.

Reginald Horsman is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. English-born (though now a citizen of the United States), he returned to England on a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research that led to his book The War of 1812 (Knopf, 1969) and to this article on Dartmoor.