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Paul Russell Cutright, professor of biology at Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania, is the author of two books, The Great Naturalists Explore South America and Theodore Roosevelt the Naturalist . For much of the technical information in this article he is indebted to Dr. R. G. Williams, Joseph Leidy Professor of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Virginius Dabney was editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for 33 years and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial writing. He was the author of a dozen books including Virginia: The New Dominion, Richmond: The Story of a City, and The Jefferson Scandals, a Rebuttal, which was a refutation of the Sally Hemings allegations. He wrote for The New York Times and other publications, and served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Curtis Dahl, Samuel Valentine Cole Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts, is a previous contributor and the author of several critical works on American literature.

Robert Daley, European sports correspondent for the New York Times , has been writing since he was twelve, at which age he started a novel called Mike Wynne’s Bike Trip , first of a projected twenty-volume series. But after five chapters, he says, “I decided it was childish and gave it up.” This article is based on Mr. Daley’s The World Beneath the City , recently published by Lippincott. For further reading: “Boss” Tweed , by Denis Lynch (Boni and Liveright, 1927); Fifty Years of Rapid Transit , by James B. Walker (Law Printing Company, 1918); Tammany Hall , by M. R. Werner (Doubleday, Daran, 1928).

Robert Dallek, finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins 2007) and winner of the 1979 Bancroft Prize for Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (Oxford University Press 1980), is a faculty member of Stanford in Washington.

Matthew Dallek, a Richard Hof stadter Fellow in American history at Columbia University, is writing his dissertation on Brown, Reagan, and the failure of liberalism.

Allan L. Damon was a teacher of American Studies at Horace Greeley High School and a Contributing Editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE. Mr. Damon authored The Great Red Scare in 1968.

English-born George Dangerfield (Oxon. 1927), who is now an American citizen, won both the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes in 1953 for his study of the Monroe-Adams period, The Era of Good Feelings . He is currently at work on an extended biography of Robert Livingston.

The article is based on a chapter from Pete Daniel’s The Shadow of Slavery : Peonage in the South , 1901–1969, to be published soon by the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Daniel is a Southerner who has worked as an assistant editor on the Booker T. Washington Papers, and is now assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee.

Elizabeth Daniels, who lives in Gettysburg, is working on a book about the effects of the battle on the town and its people. Many of the children’s accounts quoted here have been preserved by the Adams County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society.

A native of North Carolina and one of America’s eminent journalists, Jonathan Worth Daniels is the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer. Toward the end of World War II he served as administrative assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is the author of many books, the most recent of which is The Devil’s Backbone , a history of the Natchez Trace, published by McGraw-Hill.

Gene Dattel, author of Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power, works as a financial historian, writer, lecturer, and financial adviser. A native Mississippian, Dattel worked as an international investments banker at Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley, and he served as an advisory scholar to The New York Historical Society.

Marshall B. Davidsoris article on the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum appeared in our April/May, 1980, issue.

Carla Davidson formerly served as Senior Editor at American Heritage and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and the author of a biography of John C. Breckinridge that will be published next spring by the Louisiana State University Press.

Sid Davis, a lecturer and writer, was White House correspondent for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1963 and served later as vice president and Washington bureau chief for NBC News. He is a former guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.

David Brion Davis is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a prominent scholar on slavery and abolition in the Western World. Davis has written many books on the history and morality of slavery, including Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World and Challenging The Boundaries of Slavery. Over his career Davis has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement. 

Curtis Carroll Davis is a writer on Southern literature and history, author of Chronicler of Cavaliers .

Kenneth S. Davis, a frequent contributor, wrote “ The Birth of Social Security ” in our April/May 1979 issue.

Like most Boston literary people, Peter Davison came from elsewhere: New York and Colorado. He has been involved in Boston’s publishing community since 1955 and has written eight books of poetry and a memoir called Half Remembered .

Gavan Daws teaches at the University of Hawaii and has just completed a history of Hawaii; Timothy Head, also a history teacher, recently returned from an assignment in Japan which enabled him to pursue that end of the research on the Bonins. Together they wrote an article about the island of Niihau for our October, 1963, issue.

Scott Dawson is a researcher, author, and founder of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, which has led archaeological excavations on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the North Carolina coast, to uncover the mystery of what happened to members of "Lost Colony" at nearby Roanoke. His recent book, The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, documents his team’s discoveries over the last ten years.  Dawson himself is a native Hatteras Island, having grown up less than a mile from the Croatoan village site. His family can trace their roots on Hatteras back to the 1600's when a Dutchman named Thomas Mueller shipwrecked on the island, was rescued by the Croatoan Indians, and later married a Croatoan woman named Rea. In 2002, Scott received a degree in Psychology with a minor in history from the University of Tennessee.

Jose Enrique de la Peña (1807–1840) was a colonel in the Mexican Army. Under General Antonio López de Santa Anna, de la Peña participated in the Battle of the Alamo. In 1955, a controversial book of his memoirs of the battle was published.

Mr. Deac, public information specialist and speech writer for the Air Force Eastern Test Range at Cape Kennedy, has been a newspaper editor, advertising copywriter, publicrelations administrator, and government historian.

Gloria Deak is a writer who specializes in American art and cultural affairs. She has authored many books including: Picturing New York: The City from its Beginnings to the Present; Picturing America: Volumes I and II; Profiles of American Artists and American Views: Prospects and Vistas.

During the coming year, the America & Russia series, together with certain other articles on the subject from earlier issues of AMERICAN HERITAGE , will be published in book form by Simon tr Schuster, New York.

Andy J. Deering is a librarian and watch collector mho lives in rural Wyoming.

Carl N. Degler teaches the history of the South and American cultural history at Fassar College. He is the author of Out of Our Past, The Forces That Shaped Modern America . For further reading: History of the Old South , by Clement Eaton (Macmillan, 1949); The Ordeal of the Union , by Allan Nevins (2 vols., Scribner, 1947); The Southern Claims Commission , by Frank Klingberg (University of California Press, 1955); Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory , by L. Minor Blackford (Harvard University Press, 1954); Disloyalty in the Confederacy , by Georgia Lee Tatum (University of North Carolina Press, 1934).

—Dale DeGroff ran the bar at New York’s Rainbow Room for eleven years and appears often on television and radio as a mixology expert.

Mr. Deiss is the author of The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller (Crowell, 1969), a reinterpretation, based on new research, of this misunderstood woman.

Mr. Delaney, who teaches history at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, adapted this article from his biography of John McIntosh Kell, which is to be published by the University of Alabama Press.

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction and directs the writing program for the Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Michigan. He has been at work for the last several years on his novel Rumford: His Book .

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Julia DeLuca is the Marketing Coordinator at the National Historical Society. Julia graduated from the George Washington University with a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and Organizational Sciences. Before joining the National Historical Society, Julia worked for the Society for Women's Health Research as a Communications Intern, creating content for social media, email, and supporting other policy and outreach efforts. 

John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Demos was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 1982 book, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. His most recent work, Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America, discusses how colonial Americans viewed their life experiences. 

Barbara Piatelli Dempsey was born in Rome and educated in New York.  She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in comparative literature.  She co-wrote the book "Dempsey" with her stepfather, boxing legend Jack Dempsey.  She currently lives in New York City.   

Sally Denton is an investigative reporter and author who writes about America's hidden history. She has written seven books, including her most recent, The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right , released in 2012. She was honored with the Woodrow Wilson Public Scholar Fellowship in 2010, a Guggenheim Fellowhship in 2006, and entered the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2008.

Amy Denton is an adjunct professor in history at Lone Star College in Austin, TX. She earned a BA at Stephen F. Austin State University and a Masters Degree in history at the University of Houston.

Virginia Van der Veer (Mrs. Lowell S. Hamilton), a member of the history department of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, is completing her doctoral dissertation on the Senate career of Hugo Black.

Rear Admiral Van Deurs, born in Portland, Oregon, in 1901, entered the Navy in 1917, qualified as a naval aviator in 1923, and retired from active service in 1951.

A retired college teacher, Mr. Dewey now lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing his memoirs.