Authors

Philip Handleman is a longtime pilot, author of seven books and frequent contributor to magazines such as Flying, Vintage Airplane, and Warbirds.  With retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Harry T. Stewart, Jr., he co-authored Soaring to Glory: A Tuskegee Airman’s Firsthand Account of World War II.  As the president of Handleman Filmworks, he has produced and directed numerous documentaries about aviation and warfare, including the Emmy Award-winning Remembering the Holocaust. He is also an avid photographer, capturing stills featured on U.S. postage stamps, including the 2004 commemorative stamp honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the United States Air Force.

Copyright, 1954, 1955, by Oscar Handlin. A professor of history at Harvard University, Oscar Handlin is the author of a number of books. In 1952 he won the Pulitzer Prize with The Uprooted , a study of immigration in the Nineteenth Century. The foregoing article is a chapter from his most recent book, Chance or Destiny .

This article is based upon an address given by the author as one of the Lilly Endowment Lectures of the Program for Christian Culture at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana. Dr. Hanke, former Director of the Hispanic Foundation in the Library of Congress, is professor of Latin American history at Columbia University. His Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959) won the Beveridge Prize of the American Historical Association. He is also the author of Aristotle and the American Indians: A Study in Race Prejudice in the Modern World (Henry Regnery, 1959), and is now editing for Alfred A. Knopf two paperback series, Latin American Issues and Latin American Reprints.

Richard Hanser is the writer for the National Broadcasting Company’s award-winning documentary television series, Project 20 . Among his best-remembered scripts have been “Meet Mr. Lincoln,” “Mark Twain’s America,” “Meet George Washington,” and, recently, “The West of Charles Russell.”

Victor Davis Hanson is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He was a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has also been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Prof. Hanson is a prolific author of such books as The Case for Trump, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, Culture and Carnage: Landmark Battles in the Rise of-Western Power, and numerous others.

David Hapgood, a former journalist for the New York Times , is the author of seven books, most recently The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) and The Average Man Fights Back (1977).

Walter Hording is secretary of the Thoreau Society. He recently co-edited Henry David Thoreau: Studies and Commentaries (1972).

Major Hargreaves is a retired British army officer, a graduate of Cheltenham, and the author of a number of books of history. He lives at Wootton St. Lawrence in Hampshire.

Alvin Harlow has written extensively on transportation and social history. Among his books are Steelways of Old New England , Old Bowery Days and Weep No More, My Lady .

Aljean Harmetz’s many books about the movies include The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II .

The unique Miss Flock is one of the memories of growing up in Iowa that Mr. Harnack describes m his new book, We Have All Gone Away , to be published by Doubleday & Co. in March. COPYRIGHT & 1973 BY CURTIS HARNACK

Anthony Harrigan is editorial writer for The Charleston News and Courier and a free-lance contributor to scholarly quarterlies and national magazines. His great-great-great-great-uncle, Richard Hutson, was the first Intendant (mayor) of Charleston after its incorporation in 1783.

Sherwood Harns is with the International General Books division of the Reader’s Digest . A former Navy carrier pilot who still gets aloft occasionally, he wrote an article called “Coast to Coast in 12 Crashes” for our October, 1964, issue that became the germ of the book from which the foregoing excerpt has been taken. Entitled The First to Fly: Aviation’s Pioneer Days , Mr. Harris’ book will be published this month by Simon & Schuster. COPYRIGHT © 1970 SHERWOOD HARRIS

Neil Harris is Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

Leon Harris, a free-lance writer who frequently covers historical topics, is currently at work on a book about American Jewish department store families and their influence on American society.

Kent Hartman is a marketing and merchandising consultant for the music industry and has taught marketing and entrepreneurship at Oregon State University and Portland State University. He hosts a weekly radio show, "Inside Oregon Business", and also works as a freelance writer.

Dickson Hartwell first learned to admire the jeep while serving as an air Force lieutenant colonel in the Pacific. He is the author of a book, Dogs Against Darkness , and of many articles for general magazines.

Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her research interests include eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art, notably landscape painting, southwestern abstraction and Texas art. Her most recent exhibition, Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture (2020), considers how deeply entwined the heralded naturalist’s ideas were with America’s emerging identity, grounded in an appreciation of the landscape. Previously, Harvey organized the critically acclaimed The Civil War and American Art (2012), Variations on America: Masterworks from the American Art Forum Collections (2007), and An Impressionist Sensibility: The Halff Collection (2006).

Michael Harwood is a naturalist, historian, and free-lance writer who lives in Connecticut. He has written on matters as diverse as birds and past Vice Presidents.

Thom Hatch is an award-winning author and biographer of Native American and American military history. His recently completed Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Freedom and Justice, was released by St. Martin's Press.

Don Hausrath is a retired Foreigh Service officer who worked in China, the Soviet Union and other postings around the world. He is the author of From Agincourt to Zanzibar: A Where-in-the-World Guide to 300+ Places (Capital Travels), and currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mrs. Haverstock, a free-lance writer on art, has just completed a biography of the painter George Catlin for young readers. It will be published next year.

Walter Havighurst got his able seaman’s papers working on Great Lakes boats and wrote The Long Ships Passing about them. He is a professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Caitlin Hayes is a staff writer at Cornell University. Previously, she was an editor at Momentum Media and taught writing at Syracuse University. Ms. Hayes has a masters degree in English from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA, Fiction from Syracuse.

Kevin J. Hayes is emeritus professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of George Washington: A Life in Books (Oxford), The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson (Oxford) and The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas (University of Virginia Press). Hayes now lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio.

Mrs. Hazelton has published essays, articles, and a children’s play on historical subjects. Quotations from Jefferson’s Day Book are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

—Lesley Hazleton, an automotive columnist for the Detroit Free Press , is the author of Driving to Detroit: An Automotive Odyssey .

Gavan Daws is at work on a history of Honolulu which will be his doctoral dissertation at the University of Hawaii. Timothy Head is a research fellow with the East-West Center of the same institution.

— William Least Heat-Moon’s book Columbus in the Americas was published this summer.

Dr. Robert L. Heilbroner is the author of The Worldly Philosophers, The Future as History , and The Great Ascent . For further reading: God’s Gold: The Story of Rockefeller and His Times , by John T. Flynn (Harcourt, Brace, 1932); Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist , by Allan Nevins (Scribner’s, 1953); Random Reminiscences of Men and Events , by John D. Rockefeller (Doubleday, 1933)

A native of Washington, D.C., and a fire buff of long standing, Colonel HeM witnessed the fire at the White House in 1929, when he was thirteen years old. After twenty-seven years in the Marine Corps, he retired in 1964 to become an author and lecturer and is currently defense correspondent of the Detroit News . Colonel Heinl’s Victory at High Tide: the Inchon-Seoul Campaign (Lippmcott, 1968) won the Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Award in 1968.

George M. Heinzman came across the personal accounts of the participants in the Battle of Beecher Island while doing research for his historical novel, Only the Earth and the Mountains , which was published by Macmillan in 1964. For further reading: The Long Death, by Ralph K. Andrist (Macmillan, 1964); The Compact History of the Indian Wars , by john Tebbel (Hawthorn, 1966).

Robert Ferrell’s Harry S. Truman: A Life was published last year by the University of Missouri Press.

Geoffrey Hellman is well known to readers of The New Yorker, where his “profiles” and satirical pieces have appeared frequently for many years. He lives in New York City.

Jesse Helms, a Republican from North Carolina, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This essay is adapted from an address given at the U.S. Capitol Historical Society’s recent dinner honoring the committee.

Mark Helprin’s novels include A Soldier of the Great War, Winter’s Tale , and Memoir From Antproof Case .

Mr. Henry is a professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. He has been a consultant to various agencies of the federal government, and is the author of Presidential Transitions , published in 1960.

Tom Heppenheimer, an associate fellow at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is a free-lance writer. Dr. Heppenheimer received his Ph.D in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and his books include Countdown: A History of Space Flight (Wiley 1997).