Authors

—Paul Berman is the author of A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 .

Michele Herman is a New York freelancer who writes often about design.

Lamar Herrin teaches English at Cornell; The Unwritten Chronicles of Robert E. Lee was published last year by St. Martin’s Press.

Stephen Hess, one of the foremost authorities on media and government in the United States, is a senior fellow emeritus in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He first joined Brookings in 1972 and was distinguished research professor of media and public affairs at the George Washington University (2004-2009). Served on White House staff during Eisenhower and Nixon presidencies and as advisor to Presidents Ford and Carter. Hess is the author of numerous books including The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House, American Political Cartoons: From 1754 to 2010; Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas, and  America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton.  

Katie Hickman is the author of ten books. Her most recent work, Brave Hearted, was preceded by She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600 - 1900 (published in 2019), and by the highly-acclaimed series of novels, The Aviary Gate, The Pindar Diamond and The House at Bishopsgate, a trilogy set in early seventeenth century Constantinople, Venice, London, and rural Wiltshire. She is also the author of two best-selling history books, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia.

Mr. Hicks, an editor of Popular Mechanics , lives in Elmhurst, Illinois. He is the author of several juveniles, including Alvin’s Secret Code (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963). 97

Don Higginbotham is chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina. His essay on Vietnam and the Revolution appeared in the October/November 1981 issue.

David Higgs is a photographer and journalist living in England.

Ralph Nading Hill is a native Vermonter, a trustee of the Shelburne Museum, an editor of the state magazine Vermont Life , and author of Contrary Country, The Winooski (one of the Rivers of America series) and Sidewheeler Saga . But his greatest job, he says, was the presidency of the Shelburne Steamboat Company, last operators of the Ti.

As a historical researcher for over forty years, Michael Hill has assisted such authors as Michael Beschloss, Susan Eisenhower, Sebastian Junger, Michael Korda, David McCullough, Jon Meacham, and Nathaniel Philbrick. He won an Emmy in 1991 for his work as a co-producer on the Ken Burns PBS "Civil War" series narrated by David McCullough. He also served as a historical consultant on the HBO mini-series, "John Adams" and the ABC-TV mini-series, "Challenger" about the space shuttle disaster.  Hill is the author of three books including most recently Funny Business, a biography of Art Buchwald. His previous books were Elihu Washburne, the diaries and correspondence of America's Minister to France during the siege and commune of Paris, and War Poet: The Life of Alan Seeger and His Rendezvous With Death.

Laura Hillenbrand is an American author best known for her first book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, released in 2001. She won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for Seabiscuit, and its popularity led to its adaptation into the Academy Award-nominated film. In 2010 Hillenbrand finished her second book, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, which recalls the story of World War II hero Louis Zamperini.

Anita W. Hinckley has lived in Rhode Island for eighty years, and with a wry Yankee wit remembers almost every minute of them. This is her first appearance in a national magazine.

Eric Hinderaker is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Utah. His research explores early modern imperialism, relations between Europeans and Native Americans, and comparative colonization. Prof. Hinderaker is the co-author of several textbooks on American history.  His 2010 book, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery (Harvard University Press, 2010), was awarded the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize by the New York State Historical Society and the Herbert H. Lehman Prize by the New York Academy of History. He is also author of Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673-1800, and At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America.

The author is senior historian at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. His most recent book is Emulation and Invention , published last year by New York University Press.

Robert V. Hine is a professor of history at the University of California at Riverside. This article is based on his book, Bartlett’s West , to be published shortly by the Yale University Press. The bulk of the art that came out of the border survey—both Bartlett’s efforts and those of the men he commissioned—has been housed at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, with which Bartlett was associated from 1856 until his death thirty years later. The works will be on loan to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, for an exhibition that opens this month.

Thomas Hine is a writer on history, culture and design. He is the author of five books, including The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager. He contributes frequently to magazines, including The Magazine Antiques, Philadelphia Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Martha Stewart Living, Architectural Record and others. For several years, he was a senior contributing writer to Home Miami and Home Fort Lauderdale.

Martin Hintz has written more than 80 books, along with dozens of magazine and newspaper articles about his home city of Milwaukee.

Jessie Heckman Hirschl has reviewed books and contributed light verse to magazines. For the past ten years she has made a research hobby of collecting material on “the greatest of all fairs,” which in her view differed from every other that preceded or followed it. For further reading: Fabulous Chicago , by Emmett Dedmon (Random House, 1953); Chicago: The History of Its Reputation , by Lloyd Lewis and Justin Smith (Harcourt, Brace, 1929); As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933 (University of Chicago Press, 1933).

Linda Hirshman is a lawyer, cultural historian, and author of several books, including Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World, and Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. Her latest work is The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation, which chronicles the alliance between abolitionists Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman.

This essay on Thoreau will be the introduction to The Maine Woods , a reprint of the Thoreau classic in a new nature series to be published in September by Penguin. The essay will also be included in an anthology of Mr. Hoagland’s writings to be issued this fall by Summit Books. Mr. Hoagland’s last contribution to American Heritage was a profile, “Johnny Appleseed,” in December 1979.

Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ''Hoch'' as in "spoke"; ''schild'' as in "build") published his first book, "Half the Way Home" in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." His "Bury the Chains" was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Two of his books, “To End All Wars” and “King Leopold’s Ghost,” have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The American Historical Association gave Hochschild its 2008 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, a prize given each year to someone outside the academy who has made a significant contribution to the study of history.

—Woody Hochswender, a former style reporter for The New York Times and columnist for Harper’s Bazaar , is the author of Men’s Wardrobe .

Margaret Hodges, a professor emeritus at the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, is a historian and author of children’s books. She wishes to acknowledge the help of Ellen Shaffer, curator of the Silverado Museum.

—Moira Hodgson is food critic for The New York Observer .

Edwin A. Hoey, who lives in Middletown, Connecticut, is managing editor of secondary English publications at Xerox Education Publications.

Mr. Hoey, whom we are pleased to welcome to our pages, is senior editor of Read magazine, a periodical used in junior high schools; he lives in Middletown, Connecticut. The many sources for his article included two books by William S. Thomas: Members of the Society of the Cincinnati (Tobias A. Wright, Inc., 1929) and The Society of the Cincinnati (Putnam, 1935).

Joan Hoff is a research professor of history at Montana State University. She is a former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, former executive director of the Organization of American Historians, and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University.  She is the author of Herbert Hoover: Forgotten Progressive (reissued, 1992),  Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women (2nd edition, 1994), Nixon Reconsidered (1994), The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary (2000) and A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (2007) among other works.

Lilian Takahashi Hoffecker, a writer and anthropology teacher, lives in Colorado.

Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970), was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Hofstadter won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1956 for The Age of Reform, and in 1964 for the cultural history Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.

Historian Beatrice K. Hof stadter has recently revised Volume HI of Great Issues in American History , which she wrote with her late husband, Richard Hofstadter, in 1958.

Donald W. Hogan is assistant city editor of the New York Herald Tribune . A free-lance writer whose major interest is American history, he has contributed articles to several national magazines.

Stewart Holbrook is a native Vermonter transplanted to Oregon. A magazine contributor and author of many books, he last wrote The Age of the Moguls , a recent best-seller.

Stewart H. Holbrook of Portland, Oregon, has contributed a number of articles to AMERICAN HERITAGE , including “Daylight in the Swamp” (October, 1958) and “The Paintings of Mr. Otis” (April, 1959). His latest book, The Golden Age of Quackery , was published in 1959 by Macmillan. For further reading: Gilbert Patten and His Frank Merriwell Saga , by John L. Cutler (University of Maine, 1934); The Fiction Factory , by Quentin Reynolds (Random House, 1956); The House of Beadle & Adams , Vol. I, by Albert Johannsen (University of Oklahoma, 1950).

Charles J. Holden is a professor of history at Saint Mary's College of Maryland, where he's taught 19th and 20th century history since 1999. His research has focused on the history of the American South and the history of academic freedom, and he's published two books on the subjects. The first, In the Great Maelstrom: Conservatives in Post-Civil War South Carolina (2002), examines the persistence of a southern conservative ideological tradition following defeat in the Civil War, while the second, The New Southern University: Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC (2011), looks at the emergence of the University of North Carolina as a modern southern university.  Holden is co-author of Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America, published by the University of Virginia Press in 2019. 

Max Holland is writing a history of the Warren Commission to be published next year by Basic Books.

Anne Hollander, an art historian, is the author of Seeing through Clothes (Viking Penguin). Her new book, Moving Pictures , will be published by Knopf in the spring.

A native Texan and specialist in southwestern history, W. Eugene Hollon is a professor at the University of Oklahoma. He has written biographies of Zebulon Pike and Randolph Marcy.

Anna Holloway is the curator of the USS Monitor Center, The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.

Paul Holmes is the founder and chair of PRovoke Media, a media company that covers the public relations business across the Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) and the Asia-Pacific region. He has been writing about public relations for more than 25 years. Holmes began his career in local newspapers in the north of England and also worked for a newspaper group in South London before joining PR Week as news editor in 1985. He was inducted into the International Communications Consultancy Organisation Hall of Fame in 2011.

Kirsten A. Holmstedt is an author and journalist who has written two books about American servicewomen fighting in Iraq and their experiences. Holmstedt's first book, Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq, was released in 2008; a year later, she followed with The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq. Holmstedt began her research as a Creative Nonfiction Writing graduate student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she worked closely with servicewomen stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune as they returned from Iraq.

Historian Michael E. Holt was the author of The Political Crisis of the 1850s.

Michael F. Holt is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia, where he specializes in 19th Century and political history. He is the author of six books, including the award-winning The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party and By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876. Holt earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his Ph.D. Johns Hopkins. He has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities (1976-77), the National Humanities Center (1987-88), and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. In 2000 he was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize.

Thomas C. Holt is a historian and the James Westfall Thompson Professor Emeritus of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora, including Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction (Illinois, 1977), Children of Fire: A History of African Americans  (Hill & Wang, 2010), and The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century (Harvard, 2002). His most recent book is The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (OUP, 2021), which chronicles the mid-twentieth-century freedom movement and its enduring legacy.