Authors

Dr. Mark Callaghan is an art historian, lecturer, and resident historian for Viking Cruises. He specializes in the memorialization of conflict and trauma, and his monograph, Empathetic Memorials, is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Callaghan also presents and writes on many subjects, including the history of South America and the Age of Discovery.

Alice Goldfarb Marquis was a cultural historian and journalist who wrote eight books, including Alfred H. Barr Jr: Missionary to the Modern, a revealing biography of the long-time director of the Museum of Modern Art. She earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California San Diego in 1978. Her doctoral dissertation on Duchamp became her debut book. Subsequent books included Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg, Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare, and Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding.

Dana P. Marriott wrote the article "When Christmas Was Banned in Boston" featured in the December 1967 issue of American Heritage. It discusses a 1659 law in Massachusetts that prevented any celebration of the holiday for 21 years.

Mr. Penick is an associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago. He encountered Marsh’s uncompleted autobiography, of which this article is a fragment, m the O. C. Marsh Papers at the Tale University Library. The excerpt appears here with the library’s kind permission.

Megan Marshall is writing a biography of the Peabody sisters to be published by Houghton Mifflin. She wishes to thank the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, for their permission to quote from unpublished letters and journals.

Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood "SLAM" Marshall served in both world wars. During the Second World War he was the Army’s chief historian in the European theater. Gen. Marshall wrote many books of military history including The American Heritage History of World War I and two books on the war in Korea, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. For many years Marshall was also chief editorial writer of the Detroit News. 

D. M. Marshman, Jr., is a former journalist, screenwriter, and advertising executive who is now director of information for The Campaign for Yale, the largest ($370 million) private fundraising effort ever attempted.

John F. Marszalek, Jr., teaches history at Gannon College, Erie, Pennsylvania. This article resulted from research for a book on the life of Cadet Whittaker that is nearing completion. Professor Marszalek wishes to acknowledge the assistance of a Cannon faculty research grant and the aid of a student assistant, Edward Grade.

John Stuart Martin was managing editor of TIME magazine until 1938, and the author of several books, including The Home Owners Tree Book, General Manpower Inc.; Learning to Gun: A Plain ‐ Spoken Manual for the Ardent but Unaccomplished, and a series of picture histories for Crown Publishers.  

Copyright ©1962 by George F. Scheer

Rebecca Martin is a free-lance writer in New York City with an interest in decorative arts.

COPYRIGHT© 1977 BY JOHN BARTLOW MARTIN Cordially yours, [Adlai E. Stevenson]’”

Justin Martin is a journalist, author, and public speaker. He has written several books on major American historical subjects, including Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (2014), Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (2011), and A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery (2018). A former staff writer at Fortune, Martin's articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines such as Newsweek, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Forest Hills Gardens, New York. 

John A. Martini has been a historian of San Francisco for almost twenty-five years. His most recent work is Fortress Alcatraz , published by Pacific Monograph of Kailua, Hawaii.

∗ Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, associate editor of The Christian Century , and author of many books, including the National Book Award winner Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America .

A graduate of Heidelberg University, Dr. Rudolph Marx has been practicing surgery in Los Angeles since 1923. He has written a number of articles on medical history, and is now working on a book on the medical profiles of the Presidents of the United States. This article is an adaptation of one chapter in that book.

Harry Matthei retired from advertising last year and became a freelance writer. He died in February of this year.

Mary Jane Matz is contributing editor of the magazine Opera News , published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She is the author of Stars in the Sun , a book about Metropolitan Opera singers, and of a number of articles on the history of opera.

A Civil War Album of Paintings by the Prince de Joinville included, in addition to this essay, an introduction by the Comte de Paris, the present Orleanist claimant to the French throne, and an article on the French influence on the American Civil War by General James M. Gavin, former United States Ambassador to France. General Gavin’s research provided some of the information included in the captions that accompany the Prince de Joinville’s paintings. The complete volume, which was printed in Paris by Librairie Jules Tallandier, was published in the United States by Atheneum.

Stephen May writes frequently on the arts. The exhibit “The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest” will show at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, March 23 through May 18 before moving on to the Burchfteld-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York (June 15 through August 17), and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D. C. (September 26 through January 25, 1998).

Martin Mayer is the author of more than twenty books, including Wall Street: Men and Money; Madison Avenue, USA; The Schools; The Bankers; The Lawyers; The Builders ; and, most recently, Making News . He lives in New York City and Shelter Island, New York.

Lida Mayo is chief historian of the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army, and a contributor to the official U.S. Army in World War II series. Aside from this work, her special field of interest is American social history. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century newspaperman George Alfred Townsend. Quotations from the Adams Papers are from the microfilm edition, by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society. For further reading: John Adams , by Page Smith (Doubleday, 1962, 2 vols.); Abigail Adams , by Janet Whitney (Little, Brown, 1947).

Kenneth McArdle was the associate editor of the Chicago Daily News and head of its editorial page. "He was scholarly, polished, sophisticated, learned and a very good writer," said Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ray Coffey, who worked with him. "He was very gentlemanly and a first-class journalist." McArdle also served as Editor of Collier's from 1955 to 1957, and published A Cavalcade of Collier’s, an anthology of essays from that magazine.  

Benjamin McArthur is a professor of history at Southern College in Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1984 Temple University Press published his book Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 .

Robert McBride has left behind his career as an intrepid aeronaut and is now editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly.

Shawn McBurney is a special assistant to Congressman Ed Royce, who represents California’s Thirty-ninth District.

—Bruce McCall’s books include Zany Afternoons and Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada .

— Charles McCarry’s latest novel of intrigue is Lucky Bastard .

Joe McCarthy is the president of McCarthy Communications, Inc., and the former president of BKLYN Magazine. He was the writer and producer of a film, The Brave Man, about the Battle of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War.

A former newspaper and radio-television journalist, Mr. McCarthy now lives and writes in Goshen, New Hampshire. There is no book-length biography of Vivian Burnett. His The Romantick Lady (Scribner’s, 1927) is the most substantial biography of his mother.

—J. D. McClatchy’s new collection of poems is Hazmat . He teaches at Yale and is editor of The Yale Review .

Wilfred McClay is a professor of history at Hillsdale College. He is the author of eight books, including Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, a widely used textbook and narrative history of the United States. Professor McClay previously taught at Georgetown, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, the University of Dallas, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He graduated from St. John's College and received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.

Bill McCloud served in the 147th Assault Support Helicopter company in Vietnam from March 1968 to March 1969. He taught for 30 years at Pryor Junior High School in Oklahoma. In 2009, Harvard purchased Mr. McCloud's collection of letters and materials which became his 1989 book What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam. He now serves as an Adjunct Professor of History at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Susannah McCorkle appeared internationally and recorded seventeen albums as a cabaret singer, and she wrote previously for American Heritage about Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Irving Berlin. She died in May of this year.

Susannah McCorkle’s sixteenth CD, Someone to Watch Over Me — The Songs of George Gershwin , was released in April. Her articles on Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith have appeared in previous issues.

John R. McCormick is owner and president of the Communications Guild Company in Huntsville, Alabama.

Thomas K. McCraw, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas and current Iy a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Business Administration, is the author of TV A and the Power Fight, 1933-1939 (1971)

David McCullough was an author, historian, lecturer, and former editor at American Heritage. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and Francis Parkman Prizes. He has also earned the Los Angeles Times Book Award, New York Public Library's Literary Lion Award, the Saint Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

John McDonough, who has written on jazz for many years for Down Beat and The Wall Street Journal, wrote the liner notes for the seventy-fifth-anniversary reissue of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recordings. He is currently a lecturer in jazz history for the Department of Music Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

Walter A. McDougall is Professor of History and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Amherst College and a Vietnam veteran, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. McDougall is the author of many books, most recently Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 (2004). His other recent books include Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter With the World Since 1776 (1997) and Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur (1993). In 1986, Professor McDougall won the Pulitzer Prize for The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.

William S. McFeely (1930-2019) was an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Grant: A Biography (W. W. Norton, 1981). He was also the Lincoln Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass (W. W. Norton, 1991) and several other biographies, including Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom (W. W. Norton, 1994); Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (W. W. Norton, 1983); and Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins (W. W. Norton, 2006).

An associate professor at the University of Texas, Thomas F. McGann specializes in the history of Latin America. He is the author of Argentina, the United States and the Inter-American System, 1880–1914 , and many articles, including “Prescott’s Conquests” ( AMERICAN HERITAGE , October, 1957). For further reading: The Journey and Route of Álvar Núñez, Cabeza de Vaca , by Cleve Hallenbeck (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1939); The Narrative of Álvar Núñez Cabeça de Vaca , edited by Frederick W. Hodge (Scribner’s, 1907); The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca , by Morris Bishop (Century, 1933).

Eliza McGraw is the author, most recently, of Astride: Horses, Women, and a Partnership That Shaped America. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Mrs. McKee, who holds a Ph.D. in American studies, was Visiting Research Associate in Naval History at the Smithsonian Institution last year.

Larry G. McKee, a writer and photographer, lives in Altoona.