Authors

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.

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.

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.

—John B. Holway is the author of a dozen books on baseball.

Harold Holzer, a frequent contributor and winner of a 2005 Lincoln Prize for Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster 2006), has written more than 40 books about the 16th president. He currently chairs The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush in 2008. Holzer, educated at the City University of New York, first worked as a newspaper editor for The Manhattan Tribune, served as a political campaign press secretary for Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug and Governor Mario Cuomo, and currently works as a Senior Vice President at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dr. Robert S. Holzman, professor of taxation at New York University, is the author of Stormy Ben Butler and General “Baseball” Doubleday . His pictorial history. The Romance of Fire Fighting , will be published next year.

Roy Hoopes is the Washington bureau chief of Modern Maturity and the author of several books, including Americans Remember the Homefront , recently reissued in paperback.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929-1933 and Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge. After the United States entered World War I President Wilson appointed him as the head of the U.S. Food Administration, and Hoover's rationing policies helped feed American servicemen. His humanitarian efforts helped feed needy civilians in Europe after both world wars, and he oversaw the development of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, his alma mater. President Hoover passed away at the age of 90 on October 20, 1964 in New York City.

Jack Hope is a-New York writer and naturalist who has trapped more than five hundred mice, all with Victor snap traps.

George E. Hiipkins is associate professor of history at Western Illinois University. A former military pilot, he is the author of The Airline Pilots (Harvard University Press, 1971). For further reading on related subjects in AMERICAN HERITAGE , see “The Intrepid Mr. Curtiss,” April, 1975, and “Barnstorming the U.S. Mall,” August, 1974.

Robert Hopkins is the president of the Harry Hopkins Public Service Institute, which honors his father's service as the Secretary of Commerce under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hopkins, who covered the Yalta Conference as Roosevelt's personal photographer in 1945, became a prominent documentary producer, and worked with the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe and South America. He published his memoirs, Witness to History: Recollections of a World War II Photographer, in 2003.

Paul Horgan has spent much of his life in New Mexico and has written extensively about the Southwest. Portions of his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Rio Grande, Great River , appeared in the first issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE . He is now at work on a biography of Archbishop Lamy.

Dara Horn’s article on tracing Civil War Boston appeared in the April 1998 issue. The tenement building is open to visitors by guided tour only. Tours leave 90 Orchard Street every half hour every day save Monday. Call for exact times (212-431-0233) or check the museum’s Web site: www.tenement.org .

Dr. James Horn is the President of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation, affiliated with Preservation Virginia. Previously, he was Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He has also served as Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, Editor of Publications at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary, and taught for twenty years at the University of Brighton, England, before moving to the US.

Karen Hornick teaches interdisciplinary studies on cultural history, gender theory, literature, and media at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She received the Gallatin Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009.

—Mark Horowitz is an editor at New York magazine.

Reginald Horsman is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. English-born (though now a citizen of the United States), he returned to England on a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research that led to his book The War of 1812 (Knopf, 1969) and to this article on Dartmoor.

James Oliver Horton was the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. From 2004 to 2005 Horton served as the President of the Organization of American Historians, and previously worked as the Senior Advisor on Historical Interpretation and Public Education for the Director of the National Park Service before being appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission in 2000. He has consulted museum exhibitions and the History Channel and his most recent book, Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, was released in 2006.

Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He spent a decade overseas as a foreign correspondent, mainly covering wars and conflicts for The Wall Street Journal. After returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.

William Hosley is the curator of American decorative arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Wenhui Hou visited our offices in New York last year, and she now reports from Lanzhou that she is working on two books on American history.

Jourdan Houston, a free-lance author based in New Hampshire, is especially interested in the history of science.

A noted scholar on constitutional law, comparative constitutionalism, Anglo-American legal history, and the United States Supreme Court, A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Howard has also clerked for Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, served as a consultant to the Governor of Virginia and the Senate Judiciary Committee, and chaired Virginia's Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. While serving as a University of Virginia professor, Howard wrote The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America and Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia, which won a Phi Beta Kappa prize, and, more recently, Democracy's Dawn and Constitution-making in Eastern Europe.

Daniel Walker Howe, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford 2007), is the Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University, and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

A native of Bristol, Rhode Island—whose past he commemorated in his most recent book, Mount Hope —George Howe is a practicing Washington architect who has also made a highly successful career as a writer. This article will appear in his forthcoming book on Connecticut and Rhode Island, to be published by Harper & Brothers in their “Regions of America” series.

Cyndi Howells is the owner of Cyndi’s List, which has twice been voted the best genealogy site on the World Wide Web and has had more than five million visitors. She is also the author of Netting Your Ancestors , a bestselling book on genealogical research on the Internet.

Tim W. Hrastar is the author of William Preston Mayfield Photographer (Viewpoint Publications, Dayton).

Professor Hubbard is chairman of the Magazine Department al Syracuse University. He is the author of a history of banking and westward expansion entitled Banking in Mid-America (Public Affairs Press, 1969).

Mr. Hubbard, formerly an associate editor of Newsweek , is now an associate professor of finance and journalism and director of the INGAA Business Communications Program at the University of Missouri. For further reading: The History of the American Sailing Navy , by H. I. Chapelle (Norton, 1949); The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence , by Alfred T. Mahan (Sampson Low, Marston; 1913).

A Louisiana historian and collector, Mr. Huber wrote “Heyday of the Floating Palace,” an article about early Mississippi steamboats, in the October, 1957, AMERICAN HERITAGE . All illustrations are from the collection of the author except the tableau scene on page 20, which appeared in Harper’s Weekly for March 29, 1873, and the water colors on the opposite page, which are from the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University.

Thomas P. Hughes is Andrew Mellon Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Torsten Althin Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden. This article is adapted from his book American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 , to be published in 1989 by Viking Penguin.

Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. (1862-1948) served as Governor of New York (1907–1910), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1910–1916), United States Secretary of State (1921–1925), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States (1930–1941). He was the Republican candidate in the 1916 U.S. Presidential election, losing to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes was an important leader of the progressive movement of the 1900s, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and a leader of opposition to the New Deal in the 1930s.  

Ruth Hume has written several articles on music and American culture for AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: Humbug: the Art of P. T. Barnum , by Neil Harris (Little, Brown and Company, 1973), and Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale , by Gladys Shultz (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1962).

Morton M. Hunt has been writing for magazines since his discharge from the Army Air Force after World War II. In 1956 he was president of the Society of Magazine Writers.

Richard P. Hunt is a reporter who has covered sixty countries and six wars. He also reports on American history.

Until his retirement last year, John Clark Hunt had spent over three decades in the West working for the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. He is currently writing a book on the early years of the Forest Service.

Tom Huntington is a frequent contributor to Invention & Technology magazine, the former editor of Historic Traveler and American History magazines, and a contributing editor to America in WWII magazine. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, American Heritage, Yankee, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and many other publications. He is also the author of Pennsylvania Civil War Trails (Stackpole Books, 2007) and Ben Franklin’s Philadelphia: A Guide (Stackpole Books, 2006).

Jack Hurst is a historian and former journalist who has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Nashville Tennessean. Mr. Hurst's books include Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War, and Born to Battle: Grant and Forrest—Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga. A native of Maryville, Tennessee and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee.

R. Douglas Hurt is a Smithsonian Fellow in the History of Science and Technology.

James H. Hutson is chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The series will be repeated during 1986 and particularly in 1987, the bicentennial of the Constitutional Convention.

Merritt Ierley is the author of Open House: A Guided Tour of the American Home 1637-Present , published in March by Henry Holt, from which this article is adapted. This fall will see the publication of his book The Comforts of Home (Random House/Clarkson Potter), an extended look at the evolution of technology in the home.

Mr. Infield’s article is based on his book The Disaster at Bari , published this month by Macmillan. He wrote another book for Macmillan, Unarmed and Unafraid , a history of aerial reconnaissance (1970).