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Lieutenant S. Dana Greene served aboard the USS Monitor during the Battle of Hampton Roads, taking command as a 22 year-old when the ship's captain was wounded.

Dr. William E. Green was the curator of history at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, and the former assistant curator at the Witte Museum in San Antonio.

Marian Schomer Greene was Director of the Nassau County Office of Senior Citizens' Affairs and of the Jewish Association of Services for the Aged. She was a graduate of Hunter College and the Columbia University School of Social Work. 

Alan Greenspan served as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. After retiring from that post, Greenspan wrote his memoir, titled The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, in 2007, and works as a private adviser and consultant through his company, Greenspan Associates, LLC. President George W. Bush awarded Greenspan the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2005.

Burt W. Griffin is the author of JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth and Cities Within a City: On Changing Cleveland's Government. Judge Griffin was Assistant Counsel to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (commonly known as the Warren Commission) and served for many years as a judge in the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Before that, he was a legal aid lawyer and served as Executive Director of the Cleveland Legal Aid Society and National Director of the Legal Services Program, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.  Judge Griffin graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in political science, and later graduated from Yale Law School.

Elisabeth Griffith is the author of FORMIDABLE: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020 (Pegasus, 2022). Her biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, IN HER OWN RIGHT (Oxford, 1984), was the basis for Ken Burns’ only documentary about women, “Not For Ourselves Alone. “ Ms. Griffith earned a bachelor's degree at Wellesley College, a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in history from American University.  She is a member of the Society of American Historians and Veteran Feminists of America.

John Griggs has been an actor for thirty-five years, with more than a score of Broadway plays to his credit. He has also made numerous appearances on radio and television.

Jon Grinspan is a historian of American democracy, youth, and popular culture. He is a curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and a frequent contributor to the New York Times.

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George Groh has written extensively on medical subjects. He is also the author of “Last of the Rebel Raiders,” which appeared in the December, 1958, AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: The Midwest Pioneer , by Madge Pickard and R. Carlyle Buley (Henry Schuman, 1946); Doctors on Horseback , by James T. Flexner (Viking Press, 1937).

George W. Groh is a former Milwaukee and Corpus Christi, Texas, newspaperman and free-lance magazine writer now working for MD , a medical newsmagazine in New York City.

Winston Groom is the author of sixteen books including including the bestseller Forrest Gump, and coauthor of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Conversations with the Enemy. He also worked eight years for the Washington Star. In addition to Forrest Gump and ​Gump & Co., Groom’s novels include Better Times Than These, Gone the Sun, ​Only and the award-winning As Summers Die, which was made into a movie starring Bette Davis.  He is also the author of ​Conversations with the Enemy​, a non-fiction account of the experience of an American prisoner of war in Vietnam, a brilliantly rendered Pulitzer Prize finalist. His novel Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl, was published by Random House in the spring of 1999

Edwin S. Grosvenor is the Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines.

Charles Guggenheim, a three-time Academy Award winner, lives in Washington, D.C.

The Wealthy 100 was published by Citadel Press in 1996. Michael Klepper is the head of Michael Klepper and Associates in New York City, and Robert Gunther is the head of a communications firm in Kimberton, Pennsylvania.

American playwright and novelist A. R. Gurney, Jr. has written dozens of plays including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut.

C. W. Gusewelle, whose article “ A Continuity of Place and Blood The Seasons of Man in the Ozarks ” appeared in our December, 1977, issue, is an editor and writer for the Kansas City Star.

Richard J. S. Gutman’s American Diner Then and Now , a definitive history to be published by HarperCollins in May 1993, includes a directory of fourteen hundred currently operating diners.

Nicholas Guyatt is a historian and lecturer in modern history at the University of Cambridge. After earning degrees at Cambridge and a Ph.D. at Princeton, he taught American history in the US, Canada and the UK. Guyatt is the author of six books including The Hated Cage, Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876, and Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. He has written about written about American history for such publications as the Nation magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.  

Richard Haass is a U.S. diplomat, author, and former president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Council in 2003, Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. A confirmed ambassador by the U.S. Senate, Haass also served as U.S. Coordinator for the Future of Afghanistan, US envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process, and special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to US policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. 

Fred Haefele is an essayist and writer who published his award-winning motorcycle memoir, Rebuilding the Indian, in 1998. Haefele has been published in Outside, Wired, Newsday, and The New York Times. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Montana and Stanford University.

Stephen W. Sears is the author of George B. McClellan: The Young Napoleon . His article on Antietam appeared in the April 1989 issue.

Emily Hahn (1905-1997) was an American journalist and author. Called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 52 books and more than 180 articles and stories. Ms. Hahn smoked large cigars, drank with gusto and maintained a chaotic love life across several continents.

Dr. Francis Haines taught social science at Oregon College of Education and was a well-known authority on the Nez Percé Indians and the Appaloosa breed of horses. Born in West Virginia, he was raised in Montana, where he developed his interest in the American West. Haines authored Appaloosa: The Spotted Horse in Art and History and his various writings helped renew interest in the breed.  The Appaloosa Museum and Heritage Center in Moscow, Idaho was originally dedicated to him. 

Shirlee Taylor Haizlip is currently working on a sequel to The Sweeter the Juice , which is now in paperback from Touchstone.

David Halberstam’s books include The Best and the Brightest , The Powers That Be , and The Reckoning . This article is excerpted from The Fifties , which will be published by Villard Books, a division of Random House, in June.

William Harlan Hale is managing editor of HORIZON . His last contribution to AMERICAN HERITAGE was “When the Red Storm Broke,” in the February, 1961, issue. For further reading: Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin , by Herbert Feis (Princeton University Press, 1957); Admiral Ambassador to Russia , by William H. Standley (Henry Regnery, 1955); The Strange Alliance , by John R. Deane (Viking, 1946); Speaking Frankly , by James F. Byrnes (Harper, 1947).

Judson D. Hale, Sr., is the editor in chief of Yankee magazine and The Old Farmer’s Almanac .

Oakley Hall is a writer and teacher living in California. Several of his novels with Western settings, including Warlock , have been made into films.

Robert A. Hall Massachusetts Senate, 1973-82 Madison, Wis.

Ben M. Hall—who claims to have had one head in the clouds since he spotted the first alto-cumulus on the ceiling of the Fox Theater in Atlanta at an impressionable age—is author of the forthcoming history of the movie palace, The Best Remaining Seats , to be published by Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. © 1960, MICHAEL BROWN

Mark Halliday is professor of English at Ohio University, and a noted American poet, professor and critic. He is author of six collections of poetry, most recently "Thresherphobe" (University of Chicago Press, 2013) and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His honors include serving as the 1994 poet in residence at The Frost Place, inclusion in several annual editions of The Best American Poetry series and of the Pushcart Prize anthology, receiving a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, and winning the 2001 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

E.M. Halliday (1913-2003) was a longtime senior editor of American Heritage and the author of several books including Understanding Thomas Jefferson; When Hell Froze Over, an account of the Allied invasion of Soviet Russia in 1918-19, and a memoir of the poet John Berryman. Halliday also wrote a number of articles for The New Yorker. Photo courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers.

Mark Hallum is the Managing Editor of American Heritage and Invention & Technology Magazines, and a recipient of a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship for 2021-2022. Mark spent seven years as a reporter and photojournalist covering all things pertaining to NYC politics and transportation for amNewYork, the QNS.com, and the TimesLedger newspapers. He won awards and an honorable mention from the New York Press Association. Previously, Mark worked for History News Network and Popular Archaeology Magazine.

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Ed Halverson was a veteran of the United States Air Force, during the Korean War. He later joined to Suffolk County Police Department and was influential in the arrest of John Gotti.

Paul Ham is an Australian author who wrote for the London Sunday Times for several years before devoting himself to the writing of history. His specialties include World War I, World War II in Asia, and the Vietnam War. His books include Kokoda, which focuses on the first Japanese loss in a land battle in what was then the Territory of Papua; 1914: The Year the World Ended; and Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath, a critique of the atomic attacks, which includes extensive testimony by survivors. In addition to books, Ham has also worked on documentary writing and presenting.

Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton teaches American history at the University of Alabama and is the author of a biography of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.

Bray Hammond (1886-1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and assistant secretary of Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System between the years of 1944 and 1950. He was the author of Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War and Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, for which Hammond won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1958.

William Peirce Randel was a longtime professor of English at the University of Maine. He authored numerous books, including The Ku Klux Klan: A Century of Infamy (Chilian, 1965) and, more recently, The Evolution of American Taste (Crown, 1978).