Authors

Hanna Miller, a food historian, leads culinary tours in Asheville, North Carolina.

Randall M. Miller is a professor of history at St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia. The author or editor of more than 20 books, Miller recently completed a book on Lincoln and leadership and another on the Northern home front during the Civil War. A principal advocate for a new interpretation of “freedom” and “unfreedom” at Independence National Historical Park, Miller’s efforts helped to lead to a memorial commemorating the lives of the nine slaves who served at President George Washington’s house at Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. According to Miller, the recognition of Washington’s slaves created a great teaching opportunity that illustrates the struggle to define and realize liberty in America.

—Allan R. Millett, a professor of history at Ohio State University, is co-author of A War to Be Won: Fighting World War II .

Nicolaus Mills is a professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial .

Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner have edited The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations , The New International Dictionary of Quotations , A Dictionary of Quotations From Shakespeare , and A Dictionary of Quotations From the Bible .

Marion Wefer is a writer of plays for children and is a regular contributor to young people’s magazines. This is her first appearance in AMERICAN HERITAGE .

Mr. Mitchell was past editor of Sierra Club Books and a longtime editor and writer for Audubon magazine. He worked for National Geographic from 1994 to 2004. He wrote eight books, including Losing Ground (1975), Alaska Stories (1984) and Dispatches From the Deep Woods (1991). Mr. Mitchell was a regular contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE and contributed scores of articles to magazines such as Wilderness and Smithsonian, and his work is included in several anthologies.

Greg Mitchell has been researching the EPIC campaign for more than five years. He is the author of Truth and Consequences , a book about whistle blowers, and coauthor of Acceptable Risks , about how individuals deal with modern-day life.

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Robert Mitchell is a writer and editor with the Washington Post News Service. He is the author of two books on American history, including King of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawn of the Gilded Age and Skirmisher: The Life, Times, and Political Career of James B. Weaver.

Mr. Mitchell, formerly Director of Information for the American Merchant Marine Institute, has contributed several articles on ships and the sea to AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: The Frigate Constitution, by Ira N. Hollis (Houghton, revised edition, 1931); Old Ironsides: The Story of U.S.S. Constitution, by Thomas P. Morgan (Burdette, 1963)); Tattered Ensign , by John Jennings (Crowell, 1966).

Herbert Mitgang is a member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times . He has written and edited a number of book on Lincoln and the Civil War, the latent being The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln , published m 1974. He has also produced several documentary films on related historical topics, and he has just finished a new play entitled Affectionately, A. Lincoln .

Stephen Molton is an author, filmmaker, professor, painter, and former film executive who serves as Professor of Writing and Producing for Television at the TV Writers Studio MFA program at Long Island University Brooklyn. Since 2007, he has also served as Adjunct Associate Professor of screenwriting at Columbia University. Molton collaborated with Gus Russo on his latest work, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder and is completing two new books, the first for Crown/Random House, due out in the spring of 2014. He has produced two documentary features and served as a creative executive at HBO, Showtime Networks, Inc., and MTV Networks and has written screenplays for New Line Cinema, Viacom Productions, and Paramount Television

Joseph Monninger, who lives in New York City, has recently published the novel Second Season .

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein commanded the British Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942 and led Allied land forces in the invasion of Europe. He served with Eisenhower until the end of the war and again in 1951 as Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Commander at SHAPE. Here, Montgomery recalls their friendship during their service together.    

Lynn Montross has written several books on the American Revolution, including The Reluctant Rebels (1950) and Rag, Tag and Bobtail (1951), the story of the Continental Army.

Richard Moody is an associate professor of speech and theater at Indiana University. His book, America Takes the Stage , published this year, is on the American theater, 1750 to 1900.

Elizabeth C. Mooney is a free-lance writer who lives in Washington, D.C. She also has written In the Shadow of the White Plague , a book about her memories of Saranac in the 1920’s, to be published in March by T. Y. Crowell.

D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn Moore are the authors of Dear Harry …: Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953 (Stackpole, 1999).

—Max Morath is a nationally known entertainer and the author of The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards .

Mr. Morcom, who is with the Department of Physical Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has based his article largely on his collection of Hale family letters and documents.

Ethan Mordden is the author of The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical .

James Morgan is a writer whose works include The Distance to the Moon, If These Walls had Ears, and worked with President Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, on her autobiography, Leading with My Heart. His latest work, Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream, details Morgan's living with his wife as an expatriate in France.

Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was a historian of the Puget Sound region and history teacher at Tacoma Community College. His book Skid Road, and informal portrait of Seattle, was said to be the "longest-running Pacific Northwest book in print." Morgan authored or co-authored 19 books including The Last Wilderness, A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range, and Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864-65.

Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale who authored many books about the American colonies and the Founding Fathers. His 2002 book, Benjamin Franklin, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Other works include The Challenge of the American Revolution, The Genius of George Washington, and The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop.

H. Wayne Morgan was a Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of William McKinley and His America, New Muses: Art in American Culture, and Oklahoma: A Bicentennial History.

The author was a senior editor of Look from 1953 to 1958. He has written two novels and many articles and was the press secretary to Mayor John Lindsay in New York City from 1969 to 1973. His article on Adlai Stevenson appeared in the August/September 1984 issue of this magazine.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve (1887-1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. Morison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. In 1942, President Roosevelt commissioned Morison to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). He ralso wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.

Elting E. Morison is Killian Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

—Jan Morris’s most recent book is Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest .

Roy Morris Jr. is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of four well-received books on the Civil War and post-Civil War eras: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 (Simon and Schuster, 2003); The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2000); Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Crown, 1996); and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (Crown, 1992). He also edited and wrote the introduction for a popular new edition of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Nancy Morris is a Hawaii historian who has worked for the University of Hawaii and worked as curator of the Jean Charlot Collection. Morris has written several books about the Aloha State and serves on the board of directors of the Hawaiian Historical Society.

Richard K. Morris, a grandson of the Holland ’s first engineer, Charles A. Morris, teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and is at work on a biography of John P. Holland. Courtlandt Canby of New York was co-editor of the recently published Dynamic America , an illustrated history of the General Dynamics Corporation, and is the author of Lincoln and the Civil War . He is editor of The Epic of Man , to be published next year by Life .

Richard B. Morris (1904 - 1989) was an American historian who focused on the constitutional, diplomatic, and political history of the American Revolution and the making of the U.S. Constitution. He was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of many books. In 1966 Morris won the Bancroft Prize in History for his book on the diplomacy of the American Revolution, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence (1965). He edited the papers of John Jay and published a biography, John Jay, the Nation, and the Court, focusing on Jay's work as a diplomat and as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

Gregory D. L. Morris, former global-markets editor for Chemical Week , and former executive editor of Bank Investment Marketing , is a member of the editorial board of the Museum of American Financial History in New York.

—Donald R. Morris is a historian, a novelist, and the publisher of a weekly newsletter.

Joseph L. Morrison is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill.

Ann Morrow is an independent journalist and editor based in New York's Hudson River Valley region. She has 30 years experience writing for newspapers and regional and national magazines, and concentrates on historical and environmental topics.

Louis Morton, chief of the Pacific Section of the Army’s Office of Military History, has written on military and colonial history. His latest book, The Fall of the Philippines , is a volume in the Army history of World War II.

A Houston resident, Randall Morton founded The Progressive Forum and co-founded The Oilfield Breakfast Forum, the largest speaker series in the petroleum industry, which he hosted for nine years.  He operated Randall Morton International for 32 years, an agency providing market communication, advertising, and public relations to leading oil service companies in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Europe.  Morton earned a degree in government from Georgetown University, and a second degree from Tulsa University in communications, where he also served as an adjunct professor teaching advertising design and copy.  He is a member of a working group at Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, and an enrolled member of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma.

Henry Moscow was an author and editor of the New York Post. His books such as Thomas Jefferson, The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins, Russia Under the Czars, and The Book of New York Firsts. He also wrote Domestic Descendants, based on the television series Wild, Wild World of Animals.

Don Moser, who was formerly an assistant managing editor of LIFE , is now afree-lance writer who lives in Washington, D.C.He is currently working on a book about the China-Burma-India theater in World War II.

J. Robert Moskin is an award-winning historian and journalist. He has reported from troubled spots around the globe: from Korea, the Middle East, eastern Europe, and three times from the Vietnam war – including a wartime visit to enemy-held Hanoi.

Bill Moyers is a journalist at CBS News. This article is based on a speech he made recently at the University of Texas, Austin.

Maura Moynihan is a New York author and journalist who has written for Vogue, The New Republic, Interview, Epoch Times and the Guardian. A long time critic of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, she has worked Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Her works of fiction include “Yoga Hotel” and “Kaliyuga.”   

Mr. Moynihan, pathologist of megalopolis, was Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1963 to 1965. Since 1966 he has been director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, and professor of education and urban politics at Harvard. He is co-author (with Nathan Glazer) of Beyond the Melting Pot . In a somewhat different version, “The Soulless City” was delivered as a lecture at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society last spring.