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James Oliver Horton was the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. From 2004 to 2005 Horton served as the President of the Organization of American Historians, and previously worked as the Senior Advisor on Historical Interpretation and Public Education for the Director of the National Park Service before being appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in 2000. He has consulted museum exhibitions and the History Channel and his most recent book, Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, was released in 2006.

Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He spent a decade overseas as a foreign correspondent, mainly covering wars and conflicts for The Wall Street Journal. After returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.

William Hosley is the curator of American decorative arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Wenhui Hou visited our offices in New York last year, and she now reports from Lanzhou that she is working on two books on American history.

Jourdan Houston, a free-lance author based in New Hampshire, is especially interested in the history of science.

A noted scholar on constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, Anglo-American legal history, and the United States Supreme Court, A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Howard has also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, served as a consultant to the Governor of Virginia and the Senate Judiciary Committee, and chaired Virginia's Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. While serving as a University of Virginia professor, Howard wrote The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America and Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia, which won a Phi Beta Kappa prize, and, more recently, Democracy's Dawn and Constitution-making in Eastern Europe.

A native of Bristol, Rhode Island—whose past he commemorated in his most recent book, Mount Hope —George Howe is a practicing Washington architect who has also made a highly successful career as a writer. This article will appear in his forthcoming book on Connecticut and Rhode Island, to be published by Harper & Brothers in their “Regions of America” series.

Daniel Walker Howe, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford 2007), is the Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University, and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Cyndi Howells is the owner of Cyndi’s List, which has twice been voted the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web and has had more than five million visitors. She is also the author of Netting Your Ancestors , a bestselling book on genealogical research on the Internet.

Tim W. Hrastar is the author of William Preston Mayfield Photographer (Viewpoint Publications, Dayton).

Mr. Hubbard, formerly an associate editor of Newsweek , is now an associate professor of finance and journalism and director of the INGAA Business Communications Program at the University of Missouri. For further reading: The History of the American Sailing Navy , by H. I. Chapelle (Norton, 1949); The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence , by Alfred T. Mahan (Sampson Low, Marston; 1913).

Professor Hubbard is chairman of the Magazine Department al Syracuse University. He is the author of a history of banking and westward expansion entitled Banking in Mid-America (Public Affairs Press, 1969).

A Louisiana historian and collector, Mr. Huber wrote “Heyday of the Floating Palace,” an article about early Mississippi steamboats, in the October, 1957, AMERICAN HERITAGE . All illustrations are from the collection of the author except the tableau scene on page 20, which appeared in Harper’s Weekly for March 29, 1873, and the water colors on the opposite page, which are from the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University.

Thomas P. Hughes is Andrew Mellon Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Torsten Althin Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden. This article is adapted from his book American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 , to be published in 1989 by Viking Penguin.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (1862-1948) served as Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes was an important leader of the progressive movement of the 1900s, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and a leader of opposition to the New Deal in the 1930s.  

Ruth Hume has written several articles on music and American culture for AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: Humbug: the Art of P. T. Barnum , by Neil Harris (Little, Brown and Company, 1973), and Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale , by Gladys Shultz (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962).

Richard P. Hunt is a reporter who has covered sixty countries and six wars. He also reports on American history.

Until his retirement last year, John Clark Hunt had spent over three decades in the West working for the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. He is currently writing a book on the early years of the Forest Service.

Morton M. Hunt has been writing for magazines since his discharge from the Army Air Force after World War II. In 1956 he was president of the Society of Magazine Writers.

Tom Huntington is a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology magazine, the former editor of Historic Traveler and American History magazines, and a contributing editor to America in WWII magazine. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, American Heritage, Yankee, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and many other publications. He is also the author of Pennsylvania Civil War Trails (Stackpole Books, 2007) and Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia: A Guide (Stackpole Books, 2006).

Jack Hurst is a historian and former journalist who has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Nashville Tennessean. Mr. Hurst's books include Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War, and Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest—Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. A native of Maryville, Tennessee and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee.

R. Douglas Hurt is a Smithsonian Fellow in the History of Science and Technology.

James H. Hutson is chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The series will be repeated during 1986 and particularly in 1987, the bicentennial of the Constitutional Convention.

Merritt Ierley is the author of Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home 1637-Present , published in March by Henry Holt, from which this article is adapted. This fall will see the publication of his book The Comforts of Home (Random House/Clarkson Potter), an extended look at the evolution of technology in the home.

Mr. Infield’s article is based on his book The Disaster at Bari , published this month by Macmillan. He wrote another book for Macmillan, Unarmed and Unafraid , a history of aerial reconnaissance (1970).

Robert P. Ingalls is emeritus professor of history at the University of South Florida, where he taught from 1974 to 2008. He also served as the managing editor of Tampa Bay History. He has written extensively on southern history and is the author of several books for young adults, including Hoods: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan (1979) and Point of Order: A Profile of Senator Joe McCarthy (1981). He is also the author of Urban Vigilantes in the New South: Tampa, 1882-1936 (1988). He co-authored (with Louis Perez) Tampa Cigar Workers: A Pictorial History (2003); (with Susan Fernandez) Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies (2006); and (with David Johnson) The United States since 1945: A Documentary History (2009).

Steve Inskeep is host of NPR's Morning Edition, and he has been a guest on numerous TV programs including ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, CNN’s Inside Politics and the PBS Newhour. He has written for publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.

Julie V. Iovine is a writer based in New York. She often writes on architectural subjects.

Akira Iriye has been a professor of History at Harvard University since 1989. Prof. Iriye was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1934 and graduated from a Tokyo high school in 1953. He received a B.A. from Haverford College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in U.S. and East Asian History from Harvard in 1961. Professor Iriye was an Instructor and Lecturer in history at Harvard following receipt of his Ph.D. He then taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Rochester, and the University of Chicago before accepting an appointment as Professor of History at Harvard University in 1989, where he became Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991.

—Walter Isaacson is the managing editor of Time magazine and the author of Kissinger: A Biography and a forthcoming biography of Benjamin Franklin.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a writer, filmmaker, and doctoral professor at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, CA, where he specializes in European history, the culture of the Near East, and Renaissance art. He is the author of the 2006 book The Biblical World, which became an international bestseller and is now in its fourth print. Other works include In the Footsteps of Jesus (2011), The Story of Christianity (2014), Ten Prayers that Changed the World (2016), and Mapping America: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings That Created the United States (2021), co-authored with Neal Asbury. 

Marjorie F. Iseman is a free-lance writer who not only grew up in New York hut still lives and works there today.

Maurice Isserman is a Professor of History at Hamilton College who specializes in modern U.S. History, American radical movements, and global exploration and mountaineering. Famous for his writing on the 1960s, Isserman's book, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. More recently, Isserman co-authored Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes with Stewart Weaver in 2008. 

Nancy Mann Jackson is an award-winning journalist who specializes in writing about personal finance, real estate, business, and other topics. Her work appears in several publications, including CNBC.com, Fortune.com, Entrepreneur, Working Mother, CNNMoney.com, and others. She has also written for a long list of national brands.

Donald Jackson has written this account of the Yellow Stone primarily from business records of the Chouteau family in the archives of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, and from the voluminous records of the War for Texas Independence. A fuller account may be found in his book Voyages of the Steamboat Yellow Stone , which has recently been issued in paperback by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Kathryn Allamong Jacob, who is assistant historian in the U.S. Senate Historical Office, wrote an account of the Lizzie Borden murder case for us in February/March 1978.

Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Metropolitan Books) and the director of the Center for Inquiry—Metro New York.

The biography of Booker T. Washington from which this article is adapted was begun sixteen years ago by Marquis James. Mr. James, who had twice won the Pulitzer prize for history, felt that a full-scale biography of this complicated man, based on Washington’s own papers, local records, and interviews, was long overdue. Mr. James died in 1955 before the research was completed, and his widow undertook to finish the book. This fascinating study will be published by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

Mr. Jarman, a former newspaperman and staff member of The New Yorker and the Saturday Evening Post , is an instructor at the Famous Writers School in Westport, Connecticut. He wrote “The Great Racetrack Caper,” which appeared in our August, 1968, issue.

—William Jeanes is publisher emeritus of Car and Driver and editor in chief of the new magazine Classic Automobile Register .

This article was adapted from the book Rock City Barns: A Passing Era by David B. Jenkins (Silver Maple Press).

Mark Jenkins is executive director of the U.S. Rugby Football Foundation and writes frequently about rugby.

Roy Jenkins is one of the four leaders of the Social Democratic party. He is a former chancellor of the exchequer and home secretary, and from 1977 to 1981 he was president of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels. He is also a leading historian, biographer, and writer on politics.

Philip Jenkins is a professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide (Maine De Gruyter, 1994).

Robert Jenkins was Associate Publisher for American Heritage Publishing. This is his second tenure as he was Advertising Sales Director from 2007-12 and later Membership Director for the American Heritage Society. Bob’s background is in media, starting with his days as a DJ, and Promotions and Marketing Director for radio stations in Honolulu, San Francisco, and San Jose. As New Media Director for ABC Radio Network, Washington, DC, he led digital development for the stations, a model utilized throughout the network. He was also National Radio Promotions Director for “US Festival II”, a four-day concert and hi-tech event created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Mr. Jennings is a free-lance writer living in New York. AMERICAN HERITAGE is grateful to George Green Shackelford, professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, for his valuable research and editorial contributions in the preparation of this article.

A railroad man himself, Oliver Jensen is a founder of the Connecticut Valley Railroad, a live-steam operation based in Essex. He is also a founder of this magazine.