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Frederick John lives in Hawaii and is a grand-nephew of James Connolly.

Frederick A. Johnsen, a historian at Edwards Air Force Rase and the author of more than twelve historical aviation hooks, wrote “ For the Duration ” in the May/June 1995 issue.

Thomas H. Johnson was chairman of the English department of the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Johnson was co-editor of the definitive Literary History of the United States (1948, 3 vols.) of which he compiled the entire third volume. He also published the first definitive edition of the writings of Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) in six volumes. In 1955 he published Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography. Prior to Dr. Johnson’s work, no accurate or complete editions of the writing of this major American poet were in existence. In addition, Johnson was the author of The Oxford Companion to American History.

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Karl Johnson, a longtime newspaper reporter and editor, lives in New York City.

James P. Johnson is an associate professor of history at Brooklyn College. His article on the curious origins of Mother’s Day appeared in our April/May 1979 issue.

Bryan Johnson is a free-lance writer who lives in Virginia.

A 1965 graduate of West Point and holder of a doctorate in theoretical plasma physics, Tom Johnson is currently an officer in the Air Force.

Tom Jones has served with distinction in the United States Air Force and as a NASA astronaut. After graduating from the United States Air Force Academy, Jones piloted and commanded B-52D Stratofortress aircrafts, then completed a P.h. D in planetary science at the University of Arizona. During his time with NASA, Dr. Jones flew missions on the Endeavour, the Columbia, and Atlantis, totaling over 1,200 hours in space. He currently writes and lectures about the Solar System, space exploration and American history. 

The author is a professor of history and former director of the “ Our World Today ” program of the Atlanta Journal.

William and Elizabeth Jones have co-authored several books on Colorado history, most recently Buckwalter: The Colorado Scenes of a Pioneer Photojournalist (Pruett Publishing, 1989).

V. C. Jones, a resident of Centreville, Virginia, is at work on a book-length regimental history of the Rough Riders. Among his earlier works are Ranger Mosby, Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders, and the three-volume Civil War at Sea.

This account of the Snyder-Gray case is excerpted from Ann Jones’s Women Who Kill , a provocative study of female murderers in American history. The book will be published by Holt, Einehart 6- Winston in October, 1980.

Louis Jones is director of the New York State Historical Association and its Farmers’ Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., and is the author of numerous articles on folklore and folk arts. James Taylor Dunn is head of the library of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul.

Jill Jonnes is the author of the recently published Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World .

Dorothy Rieber Joralemon is an artist and writer.

Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. (1915-2005), a leading historian of the American West, was the Editor of American Heritage Magazine and author of many award-winning books, including The Patriot Chiefs, The Indian Heritage of America, Now That the Buffalo’s Gone, 500 Nations, and A Walk Toward Oregon. He was the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association.

Tim Jumper, a woodcarver, lives in Hingham, not far from Joe Lincoln’s old workshop.

Sebastian Junger has written both fiction and nonfiction for several magazines. He lives in Massachusetts.

Richard W. Kaeuper is a professor of history at the University of Rochester, He wishes to acknowledge the use of the Carr letters at the Department of Rare Books of Rochester, and to thank their donor, Edward T. Hanley, Jr.

Donald Kagan was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Classics and History at Yale University. He was the author of many books on ancient and modern history, including the four-volume History of the Peloponnesian War, a leading scholarly work on the subject. Other books by Kagan include On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, The Great Dialogue: A History of Greek Political Thought from Homer to Polybius, and Thucydides: The Reinvention of History. A former dean of Yale College, Kagan received his Ph.D. in 1958 from The Ohio State University. He won numerous awards and fellowships, including four teaching awards at Cornell and Yale. In 2002 he was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and in 2005 was named the National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecturer.

Roger Kahn is a noted author who writes primarily about sports. His 1972 memoir, The Boys of Summer, became a national best-seller and is widely considered one of the best sports books ever written, as he recalls the shared admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers between him and his father. in 2006 Kahn was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

JANE KAMENSKY is Professor of History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a historian of early America, the Atlantic world, and the age of revolutions, with particular interests in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life. Born in Manhattan, Kamensky received her BA (1985) and PhD (1993) in History from Yale University. Before coming to Harvard, she taught for two decades at Brandeis University, where she won two awards for excellence in teaching, and chaired the Department of History. She has also served as Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of History at Brown University.

Justin Kaplan is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain , which received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; Walt Whitman: A Life ; and other books. He is now at work on a nonfiction narrative about Henry James, H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, and other visitors to and from the United States during the “imperial decade” of 1900-1910. He is also serving as general editor of a new edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations , to be published by Little, Brown in 1992.

This article is adapted from The Wizards of Armageddon , to be published by Simon and Schuster in June.

Stanley Karnow was an American journalist and historian. He covered Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, and NBC News. Mr. Karnow was present in Vietnam in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed,he reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety.He was chief correspondent for the 13-hour Vietnam: A Television History series, aired on PBS's American Experience;it won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award and an DuPont-Columbia Award. In 1990, Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. Photo courtesy of http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9801/karnow.html

Walter Karp wrote about his political convictions in three books: Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America (Saturday Review Press, 1973); The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic (Harper & Row, 1979); and Liberty under Siege: American Politics, 1976-1988 (Henry Holt & Company, 1988).

Walter Karp (1934-1989), was a long-time contributor to American Heritage. A journalist and historian, Karp wrote on the Founding Fathers, the Western movement, and the American political movements. His most famous work, The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic, was published in 1979.

Garry Kasparov is a Russian political activist, chess grandmaster, and current chairman of the Human Rights Foundation. He is the author of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped and has been a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Kasparov is also the founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative, a political organization promoting and defending liberal democracy in the U.S. and abroad.

Joseph Kastner is the author of A Species of Eternity , a book about American naturalists that was nominated for the National Book Award in history. A former editor of Life , Kastner here appears in our pages for the first time.

Judith Katten is a lawyer living in Los Angeles. She and her husband, Steven, own the Madalena posters.

Harry Katz worked as Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art and Head Curator in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress from 1991–2004 before focusing on writing. In 2009 he edited and co-authored Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress, with Frank Ceresi, Phil Michel, and Susan Reyburn.

Ormonde de Kay’s study of Luks’s colleague Everett Shinn appeared in the December 1985 issue.

Ormonde de Kay, Jr., formerly an editor of HORIZON , is now a free-lance writer. He reports that personally he favors standard men’s clothing and has completely unextraordinary ears.

Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, also serving as the Director of the Center for History and Social Change. Kaye has written over a dozen books, including Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, and Are We Good Citizens, and has appeared as a guest on PBS and BookTV.

Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was an author and literary critic who often wrote on the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America.  Philip Roth called him “America’s best reader of American literature in this century.” Kazin's most acclaimed book was On Native Grounds, published in 1942. His memoir, A Walker in the City, recalled a childhood in Brooklyn.

John Keats is a free-lance writer whose many books include Whatever Happened to Mom’s Apple Pie and You Might as Well Live: A Biography of Dorothy Parker .

This essay has been adapted from John Keegan’s most recent book, Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America , to be published this spring by Knopf.