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David Neal Keller, a freelance writer and former independent documentary filmmaker, lives in Salem, North Carolina. He has written four books as well as scores of magazine articles and film scripts.

As an author and filmmaker, Mary Pat Kelly has told various stories connected to Ireland. Her best-selling novel Galway Bay (2009), called “pure magic” by Frank McCourt, is based on the history of her Irish-American family. Of Irish Blood (2015) continues the saga. She produced and directed award-winning PBS documentaries that include To Live for Ireland (1986) a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume and the political party he led; Home Away from Home: The Yanks in Ireland (1992),a history of U.S. forces in Northern Ireland during World War II with an accompanying book; and Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason (1995), a portrayal of the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat, whose first foreign port was Belfast which won the CINE Golden Eagle.

Fred Kelly has written Washington columns and twenty books, three of them about those notable bicycle men, the Wright brothers. A t present he lives in Kensington, Maryland. The illustration on page 68 is by Naiad Ensel; the photographs in it, clockwise from top center, are from Brown Brothers, Culver Service, Culver, Brown, Brown, Culver, Culver, Museum of the City of New York; at center: ttyron Collection, Museum of the City of Neut York.

Jack Kelly is a noted author who writes both novels and nonfiction. His most recent book, Gunpowder--Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World, was released in 2005. 

William M. Kelso is Director of Archaeology for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) in Jamestown, Virginia. A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, Kelso obtained his Master's Degree in early American history from the College of William and Mary in 1964. In 1971, he completed his Ph.D. at Emory University. Between 1979 and 1985, Kelso served as the resident archaeologist at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's beloved home, and since 1995, he has served as Adjunct Professor at the College of William and Mary.

John D. Milligan is professor of history at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of Gunboats Down the Mississippi (U.S. Naval Institute, 1965).

Steve Kemper is a historian and journalist and the author of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, A Splendid Savage: the Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham, and A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles Through Islamic Africa. He has written for Smithsonian, National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Wall Street Journal, Yankee, National Wildlife, The Ecologist, Plenty, BBC Wildlife, and many other magazines and newspapers.  Kemper has taught writing and journalism as an adjunct professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and at Fairfield University.

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Reverend Stephen Kendrick is the senior minister of First Church in Boston. He has written Holy Clues and Night Watch, and wrote, with his son, Paul, Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, and Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union.

Paul Kendrick has co-authored two books with his father, Stephen Kendrick. Their first, Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, was named among the best nonfiction of 2005 by The Christian Science Monitor. Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union followed and was featured in Kirkus Reviews' "Best of 2008" issue. For four years, Paul served as Director of the College Success Program at the Harlem Children's Zone. During the 2012 election, he was the Youth Vote Director for President Obama's campaign in Wisconsin. He is currently a Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Education.

Mr. Kennedy lives in California and has written widely on its history. The present article is part of a forthcoming book on trans-Isthmian routes to California in the 1850’s. His sources included The Panama Massacre; A Collection of the Principal Evidence and Other Documents … (printed at the office of the Panama Star and Herald , 1857).

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David M. Kennedy, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (Oxford 1999), is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University.

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (1917 – 1963), often referred to by his initials "JFK," was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. After military service as commander of the torpedo boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts' 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election.

Roger G. Kennedy's multifaceted career included banking, television production, historical writing, and museum administration — the last as director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. In 1993, President Clinton chose Kennedy to head the National Park Service. He served through the end of Clinton's first term in 1997.

George Churchill Kenney (1889–1977) was a U.S. Army Air Forces general during World War II. He was commander of the Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) from August 1942 until 1945.

Steven L. Kent is a columnist with the L. A. Times Syndicate and a correspondent on MSNBC. His book Electronic Nation: The History of Video Games is expected early next year.

Dick Keresey is the author of the book PT-105 , published by the Naval Institute Press.

Alvin Kernan is the former dean of the Graduate School at Princeton, an emeritus professor of English, and one of America's leading scholars of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. The University of Wyoming described him as "a war hero, a scholar, a teacher, a thoughtful critic, a passionate advocate of the humanities, and a truly Renaissance man of virtue" in conferring an honorary Doctor of Letters on him  in 2010.

Larry C. Kerpelman is a freelance writer and communications professional from Massachusetts. After serving as vice president and director of corporate communications at the Cambridge research and consulting firm Abt Associates, Kerpelman turned to writing about singular moments in American history. He has published feature articles in American History on the propaganda race that began with the Battle of Lexington and Concord; an enslaved man who was a double agent for Lafayette in Cornwallis’s camp; and the discovery of Robert Gould Shaw’s long-lost sword from the Civil War battle at Fort Wagner, South Carolina. His writing has also appeared in The Boston Globe, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other places.

Joan Paterson Kerr (1921-1996) was a founding picture editor of American Heritage magazine. She was a co-editor of American Album, published by American Heritage, and The Romantic Egoists, a pictorial history of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Mrs. Kerr also compiled A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children (1995).

Catherine Kerrison is an associate professor of history at Villanova University, where she teaches courses in Colonial and Revolutionary America and women’s and gender history. Her first book, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South, won the Outstanding Book Award from the History of Education Society. She lives in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Prof. Kerrison holds a PhD in American history from the College of William and Mary.

Alex Kershaw is an English journalist, public speaker and the author of several best-selling books, including The Liberator, The First Wave, The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter. Born in York, England, Kershaw studied politics, philosophy and economics at University College, Oxford. He taught history before working as a journalist for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times.  

Patricia Franz Kery is the author of Great Magazine Covers of the World (Abbeville, 1982).

Diana Ketcham is an architecture critic in San Francisco. Her book Le Dôsert de Retz: A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden was published by the MIT Press in 1994.

Richard Ketchum was the editor of The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War and cofounder of Country Journal . He is the author of several books on American history; the most recent is The Borrowed Years: America on the Way to War, 1938-1941 , published this month by Random House, from which this article was adapted.

Sergei Khrushchev, the son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, was a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Khrushchev immigrated to the United States in 1991, and he and his wife, Valentina, became American citizens in 1999. His article “The Day We Shot Down the U-2” appeared in the September 2000 issue of American Heritage.

Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York and a contributing editor at Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times, among others. She is also the author of In Putin’s Footsteps, Imagining Nabokov and The Lost Khrushchev. Khrushcheva was born in Moscow, Russia, and is the great-granddaughter (and adoptive granddaughter) of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Beverly Rae Kimes, the author of many books on automobile history, was for years editor of Automobile Quarterly.

Benedict B. Kimmelman was a captain in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Silver Star for actions on December 19, 1944. He now practices and teaches in Philadelphia. Private Slovik’s remains were removed to America and buried in his hometown in 1987.

Gary Kinder is author of the New York Times bestseller Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World’s Richest Shipwreck.

BB King is the king of the blues.

—Stephen King’s most recent novel is Bag of Bones .

Dean King is an award-winning author of ten nonfiction books. He crossed the Sahara on camels and in Land Rovers while researching Skeletons on the Zahara, trekked the Long March trail in the mountains of Western China for Unbound, and was shot at while researching The Feud in Appalachia.  Mr. King's writing has appeared in Granta, Garden & Gun, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Travel & Leisure, New York magazine, and The New York Times. He is the chief storyteller in two History Channel documentaries and is a producer of its nonfiction series Hatfields & McCoys: White Lightning.

Larry L. King (1929–2012) was a playwright, journalist, and novelist, best remembered for his 1978 Tony Award-nominated play "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." From 1954 to 1964 Larry L. King was a Capitol Hill aide; he worked in 1959-60 as an advance man for Lyndon Johnson’s preconvention campaign and, later, on the Kennedy-Johnson campaign during the 1960 Presidential race. King was the author of 14 books including Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores and Politicians.

Maxine Hong Kingston won the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for her novel The Woman Warrior.

Kenneth Finkel is curator of prints at The Library Company of Philadelphia.

Paul H. Downing, the technical expert in this collaboration, is an ex-cavalryman and onetime banker whose avocation is horse-drawn vehicles. Recently he became a professional consultant on carriages, and has supervised the reconstruction of Eighteenth-Century carriages for Colonial Williamsburg. He is now museum curator in this field for the National Parks Service. Harrison Kinney, the writer, is an editor of McCall’s Magazine, formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker .

Frank Kintrea, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE, got his secondary schooling at Lawrenceville, another all-male, private school.

Jeff Kisseloff is the author most recently of The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961 (Viking, 1995).

Henry A. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. He served as Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, and previously was  

Robert Klara is an editor and freelance writer who lives in Manhattan.

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Spencer Klaw teaches journalism at Columbia University and is a frequent contributor to our pages.