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Keith E. Eiler, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army (West Point, 1944), lives in Washington, D.C., where he currently is writing a biography of the late Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.

John D. Eisenhower, the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is a retired United States Army officer and the author of several books on military history. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

Milton Stover Eisenhower, (1899 – 1985) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Jack El-Hai, who wrote about the Minneapolis-St. Paul census war in the July/August 1990 issue, lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Alexander Eliot is the author of many books, including The Horizon Concise History of Greece (1972) and the tentatively titled World of Myth , which is scheduled to be published in the fall of 1975 by McGraw-Hill.

Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books on the history of woman suffrage in the US, including Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America 1848-1869 (1978), Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (2020), and Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (Yale University Press, 1997), for which she won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize from the American Historical Association. DuBois is also the coauthor, with Lynn Dumenil, of the leading textbook in US women’s history, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents, and coeditor, with Vicki Ruiz, of Unequal Sisters: In Inclusive Reader in US Women’s History.

Ernest McNeill Eller was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1956 to 1970.

Joseph J. Ellis, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in History for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Knopf 2000), is Professor of History Emeritus at Mount Holyoke College whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States.

Richard E. Ellis (1938-2009) was a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University at Buffalo, where he taught from 1974 until 2009. He was the author of several books and essays on the political history of the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian periods, including The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic and The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States′ Rights, and the Nullification Crisis.

Daniel Ellsberg is a lecturer, writer, activist, and whistleblower. A former analyst at the RAND corporation, he was an official in the Defense and State Departments under President Lyndon Johnson, and from 1965-1967 served in Vietnam studying pacification programs. By 1969, believing the Vietnam War unjust, Ellsberg photocopied a top-secret 7,000-page study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam, also known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1971, he leaked them to the New York Times and eighteen other newspapers. The government charged Ellsberg with twelve felony counts with a possible sentence of 115 years, but the case was dismissed in 1973 when Watergate inquiries exposed criminal misconduct against Ellsberg by the Nixon White House.

Jason Emerson, an independent historian writing from Cazenovia, New York, is the author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), Lincoln the Inventor (SIUP, January 2009), and the recently released The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, As Revealed by Her Own Letters (SIUP, February 2011). He frequently contributes to American Heritage Magazine.

Arye Emert 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay High School (Grade 11) West Windsor @ Plainsboro High School South Princeton Junction, New Jersey Sponsoring Teachers: Leslie Levin and Brian Welch

André Emmerich, a former staff member of Time-Life International, World Magazine, Réalitiés, and the New York Herald Tribune, operates a gallery in New York City specializing in the ancient arts of Mexico and Central America. He is co-author (with Miguel Covarrubias) of Mezcala—Ancient Mexican Sculpture and is now at work on a general introduction to pre-Columbia art.

Duncan Emrich was the chief of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress and Professor of American Folklore at American University. Emrich's book Folklore on the American Land, is a seminal overview of folk beliefs, grammar, and legends of the American way of life. His other books include The Folklore of Weddings and Marriage, The Folklore of Love and Courtship, and The Cowboys Own Brand Book.

Fred L. Engelman, a former teacher of history, is now with a New York advertising agency. He is at work on a book about the final year of the War of 1812. For further reading: History of the United States of America , by Henry Adams, Vols. 7–9 (Albert and Charles Boni, 1930); The Era of Good Feelings , by George Dangerfield (Harcourt, Brace, 1951); The Diary of John Quincy Adams , edited by Allan Nevins (Scribner’s, 1951).

Larry Engelmann is a professor of history at San Jose State University, in San Jose, California.

Paul Engle (1908 – 1991), anoted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa whose “ An Iowa Christmas ” appeared in our December, 1957 issue.

R. D. Eno, a Vermont free-lance writer, conducted the research for this article under the sponsorship of the Nova Scotia Departments of Tourism and Recreation.

Evarts Erickson is a free-lance writer who lives in Boston and denies that he has ever seen a sea serpent.

Jody Ericson is a freelance writer living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Willard R. Espy is a public-relations consultant. This article is adapted from his book Home to Oysterville , to be published this fall.

J. Worth Estes is a professor of pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Kenneth E. Ethridge was a high school teacher and freelance writer based in Royal Oak, Michigan.

John Mass was born in Vienna and, after coming to this country in 1941, served with the Army Air Force. He is presently an art director with an advertising agency and also an instructor at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art.

Few people are better equipped to write about New Orleans and the bayou country than Oliver Evans. He is a native of the city and the author of a book about it, New Orleans, published by Macmillan in 1959. A poet and essayist, Mr. Evans is at present teaching at San Fernando State College in Northridge, California.

Diane Carlson Evans served in the Army Nurse Corps in 1968 and 1969 in the Vung Tau and Pleiku provinces, and is the author of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, DC. She was the founder and president of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation, and worked for ten years to create that memorial to the 250,000 women who served in Vietnam.

Sir Harold Evans is a British-born journalist and author who served as the editor of The Sunday Times for 14 years. After moving to the United States, Evans taught at Duke University and worked at The Atlantic and US News and World Report. In 1998 Evans completed The American Century, his most famous book; its sequel, They Made America, was published in 2004.

Walter C. Evans (1899-1953) was president of Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. He was a pioneer wireless operator who got his first license in 1914, when he was fifteen. He also served as a radio operator during World War I. In the early 1920s, Evans was chief engineer when Westinghouse opened a new station, KYW, in Chicago.

Mrs. Lou Ann Everett, a former reporter for the Tulsa World, now lives in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where she and her husband publish a weekly newspaper, the Times, and a national fox-hunting monthly called The Hunter’s Horn..

Dale Van Every, a former United Press editor and Hollywood scenario writer, has long been interested in the Ohio and Mississippi country in the post-Revolutionary period. He has written about it in six highly regarded novels and in a historical study, Men of the Western Waters . (The plumed hat on page 60 is from a drawing by H. Charles McBarron for The Military Collector and Historian .)

—Stuart Ewen’s books include All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture and PR! A Social History of Spin .

John G. Ewers, a museum director of the Smithsonian Institution, has been for over thirty years a student of Plains Indian history and ethnology. Among his writing is The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains , published in 1958 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Joseph H. Ewing, who lives in Wheaton, Maryland, has worked in the U.S. Civil Service, usually as an Army historian.

This memoir is reprinted from William Faulkner of Oxford , a book of reminiscences about the novelist, edited by James W. Webb and A. Wigfall Green. It was publish in October by the Louisiana State University Press. The author, Murry Flakner, William’s only surviving brother, has always retained the original spelling of the family name. He is a retired F.B.I. man.

Leonard Falkner is features editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun . A past contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE (“A Spy for Washington,” August, 1957), he is the author of Forge of Liberty, published last year by E. P. Button & Co.

Julie Fanselow, a freelance writer, lives in Idaho. Her books include Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail (Falcon/Globe Pequot, 2003).

COPYRIGHT © 1968 BY PETER FARB Mr. Farb, curator of American Indian cultures at the Riverside Museum in New York City and a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, is an anthropologist and historian. He is also a prolific writer; the book from which this article is excerpted is his twelfth. Entitled MAN’S RISE TO CIVILIZATION AS SHOWN BY THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM PRIMEVAL TIMES TO THE COMING OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE , the book will be published this month by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., and will be a November selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Oliver La Farge was a professional anthropologist before he turned to writing as his career. Since then he has pursued anthropology, especially American Indian ethnology, as an avocation. He is the author of a number of popular books, among them Laughing Boy (Pulitzer Prize novel for 1929), as well as scientific works. He is president of the Association on American Indian Affairs, a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  Tom Farley is a freelance technology writer and the founder of privateline.com, a website devoted to telecommunications which he had produced since 1995. Tom was recently interviewed on the History Channel, in an episode of Man, Moment and Machine about Alexander Graham Bell.

Dr. Laurence Farmer is the author of Master Surgeon: A Biography of Joseph Lister and of Doctors’ Legacy, a volume of physicians’ letters covering 250 years.  "It is impossible to give more than a suggestion of the multum-ln-parvo richness found in this collection of letters from medical men to their patients and other friends," wrote a reviewer in The Tennessean. "The time-span is from the early 18th century to the present and practically every great name in the annals of medical literature, from Goldsmith to Cushing, comes in for mention."

John A. Farrell is the author of several biographies on U.S. figures, including Richard Nixon: The Life, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2018. His most recent work is Ted Kennedy: A Life, a portrait of the late Massachusetts senator and 1980 presidential candidate. Farrell is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for The Boston Globe and a former Washington bureau chief and columnist for The Denver Post. For his biography of Nixon, he was awarded the title of "American Historian Laureate" by the New York Historical Society.

Byron Farwell, who lives in Virginia, is the author of many books on Englishmen, British history, and Africa, the most recent of which is The Great Anglo-Boer War, published this month by Harper O1 Row. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Drew Gilpin Faust is the current president of Harvard University and the Lincoln Professor of History. Raised in Virginia, Faust specializes in Civil War and Antebellum history, and writes primarily on the Old South. Her most recent book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, was released in 2008 and won the 2009 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University. She has served as Harvard's 28th president since 2007.