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Michael Korda’s Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero has just been published by Eminent Lives.

Mr. Kotker, formerly on the staff of Horizon magazine, is now on editor with the American Heritage book division.

Andrei Kozyrev is a Russian diplomat who served as the Russian Federation's Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Boris Yeltsin from 1991 to 1996. As the country's first foreign minister, Kozyrev was involved in the negotiations among Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus regarding the secession of those republics and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. From 1996 to 2000, he represented the port city of Murmansk in the Duma, a chamber of the Russian Parliament. He left Russia in 2010 to settle in the United States.

Ken and Pat Kraft are a husband-and-wife writing team from Carmel, California. They ran across Black Bart in old California newspaper files while living in Santa Rosa, doing research for their seventh book, a biography of Luther Burbank to be published soon by Appleton-Century. For further reading: Wild Oats in Eden , by Harvey J. Hansen and Jeanne Thurlow Miller (Hooper, Santa Rosa, 1962); Wells Fargo , by Edward Hungerford (Random House, 1949); Bad Company , by Joseph Henry Jackson (Harcourt, Brace, 1949).

Rita Kramer is a free-lance editor and writer. She is currently at work on a history of childhood in New York.

Daniel Kramer is currently preparing a book called DEATH VALLEY LIVES.

Robert K. Krick is the author of Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic (William Morris, 1996).

Irving Kristol has been a key figure at such magazines as Commentary , Encounter , and The Reporter . He is currently co-editor of The Public Interest magazine and Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University. He presented this article as a lecture at St. John’s Church in LaFayette Square, Washington, D.C., on October 12 last. It was the first address in the American Enterprise Institute’s videotaped “Distinguished Lecture Series” on the approaching bicentennial, and it is printed here by permission of that nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.

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Jon Kukla is the author of Mr. Jefferson’s Women and A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America, as well as many scholarly articles and reviews. He has served as the executive director of the Historic New Orleans Collection and of Red Hill-The Patrick Henry National Memorial in Charlotte County, Virginia.

Andrew Kull, a baseball enthusiast, currently lives in Paris.

Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. was a former managing editor of Life magazine who became known as a writer and producer of historical documentaries for television. With two of his sons, he created Kunhardt Productions that produced films such as "Freedom," an eight-hour series broadcast on PBS stations in 2003; "The American President," a 10-hour series shown on PBS on 2000; and "P. T. Barnum," a three-hour biography shown on the Discovery Channel in 1995. Mr. Kunhardt wrote more than a dozen books, often companion volumes to the films written with his sons.

W. S. Kuniczak was born in Poland and came to the United States in 1950. He is the author of The Thousand Hour Day , a novel about the fall of Poland in World War II. This essay has been adapted from materials in his forthcoming book, My Name Is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America , to be issued by Doubleday in the spring of 1978.

Amber Kunkel 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay Middle School (Grade 6) George H. Moody Middle School Richmond, Virginia Sponsoring Teacher: Glenda Hite

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her book Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony was published by Rowman & Allanheld last year. She will take part in a discussion of the Roanoke voyages, the New World environment, and map making on the radio program “Soundings” to be broadcast over National Public Radio stations during the week of August 4. Also on the program will be Dr. Helen Wallis, the Map Librarian at the British Library.

Henry I. Kurtz is coauthor, with Burtt Ehrlich, of the forthcoming book The Art of the Toy Soldier and serves as a lead-soldier specialist for Phillips, the New York City auction house.

Wilbur G. Kurtz, artist and historian, is the leading authority on the Battle of Atlanta. In 1934–36 he supervised the restoration of the Cyclorama painting.

Keith Kyle is Washington correspondent of The Economist , of London. He took his degree in history at Oxford, where he studied under A. J. P. Taylor. This article is taken from a talk he gave over the B.B.C. some months ago on “The Third Program,” a kind of intelligent man’s radio service which unfortunately has no U.S. counterpart.

Paul G. Labadie is a writer based in Detroit. For information about Alamo Village, call 210-563-2580.

Lawrence Lader, who has written widely on history, is currently at work on a study, as yet unfilled, of radical movements in the United States since 1946. This article is based on material from the book, which will be published by W. W. Norton & Co.

Gavin Lambert is a Hollywood screenwriter and author of Natalie Wood: A Life .

James Lamont, Jr., is a freelance writer now living in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois.

Bruce Lancaster was the author of 27 books of history and historical novels. His books included The American Heritage Book of The Revolution; The American Heritage Picture History of the American People; Ticonderoga, the story of a fort; Blind Journey; and Phantom Fortress. Mr. Lancaster was a graduate of Harvard College.

Paul Lancaster’s article on the life and times of the American motel appeared in the June/July issue.

Marc Lancaster is a senior editor for The Sporting News. He has been a reporter and editor for a variety of print and media outlets, including the Washington Times, AOL, Tampa Tribune, and Cincinnati Post. He has also freelanced widely for other publications. He posts stories about combat journalism on his blog, World War II on Deadline. "I’m interested in contemporary accounts of the war — words written and broadcast, without the benefit of knowing what would happen on December 7, 1941, June 6, 1944 and August 6, 1945."  This fascination predates Lancaster's professional career. As a boy in Detroit, he spent hours reading old newspapers that his grandmother had used to decorate the walls, from Pearl Harbor through Reagan’s election. 

Eric Lane is the Eric J. Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Public Service at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He is the author of three books, including The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again (with Michael Oreskes, former senior managing editor of the Associated Press) and two textbooks on the legislative process and statutory interpretation that have been used in law schools nationally. Lane previously served as the senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, and from 2002 to 2005 was special counsel to the speaker of the New York City Council. He currently serves as an Honorary Trustee of the Vera Institute of Justice and is also a member of the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation.

Philip Langdon, a senior editor of Progressive Architecture , is the author of A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb .

Mr Laning, the well-known muralist, contributed to our pages “Memoirs of a WPA Painter” (October, 1970) and “Spoon River Revisited” (June, 1971). His recent book, The Act of Drawing , was published by McGraw-Hill.

Jack Larkin is Chief Historian at Old Sturbridge Village. This article is adapted from his new book The Reshaping of Everyday Life in the United States, 1790-1840, published by Harper & Row.

Charles J. LaRocca is a retired high school and college level history teacher who founded a student research and reenactment group based on the 124th New York. He has published articles and two books and lives in Montgomery, New York. His most recent work is The 124th New York State Volunteers in the Civil War: A History and Roster.

Harold A. Larrabee is Ichabod Spencer Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Union College, Schenectady. One of his articles in AMERICAN HERITAGE, “ A Near Thing at Yorktown ” (October, 1961), is to be published soon in expanded book form as Decision at the Chesapeake (Clarkson N. Potter). For further reading: Days of Delusion , by Clara Endicott Sears (Houghton Mifflin, 1924); Yankee Kingdom , by Ralph Nading Hill (Harper, 1960).

Edward J. Larson is the author of seven books and the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. His other books include Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory; Evolution's Workshop; God and Science on the Galapagos Islands; and Trial and Error: The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution. Larson has also written over one hundred articles, most of which address topics of law, science, or politics from an historical perspective, which have appeared in such varied journals as The Atlantic, Nature, Scientific American, The Nation, The Wilson Quarterly, and Virginia Law Review. He is a professor of history and law at Pepperdine University and lives in Georgia and California.

Robert Larson, who lives in Hollywood, has had a varied career as artist, scene designer, journalist, motion-picture animator, and studio executive. In recent years he has devoted himself to scholarly pursuits, and is now engaged in research on the early history of Los Angeles. Illustrations on pages 107-108 are reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., from The Eagle, the Jaguar & the Serpent by Miguel Covarrubias. Copyright 1954 by Miguel Covarrubias.

Cedric A. Larson was a Stanford graduate and veteran of the Navy. He is the co-author of Words That Won the War; an examination of the papers of the Creel "Committee on Public Information."

—From Miss Sullivan’s letter written that next day

Abraham H. Lass, who died in 2001 at the age of 93, was an educator and writer whose books, articles and 40 years as an unorthodox teacher and outspoken principal made him one of the New York City school system's best-known personalities. He served 16 years as the principal of Abraham Lincoln High School in Brighton Beach, and wrote articles for The New York Post, The New York Herald Tribune, The New York Times and elsewhere. Abraham Lass went on to a career as an author and educator and was for sixteen years principal of Brooklyn’s Abraham Lincoln High School.

Clarence J. Laughlin, a writer-photographer who lives in New Orleans, has had his Louisiana plantation material exhibited in over sixty museums and university art galleries throughout the U. S.; some of it has been shown abroad by the State Department. He is the author of Ghosts along the Mississippi , published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1951.

Steven F. Lawson is an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 .

Formerly in the educational department of Houghton Mifflin, Mr. Le Roy is now Director of the Washington State Historical Society. He is preparing a book, entitled In Search of History , which will include a chapter on Alfred Downing.

“History has always been a principal interest of mine,” says Mr. Leach, “and I have more or less concentrated on colonial America.” A retired businessman, he is now a resident of Nutley, New Jersey.

Historian Linda Lear is the author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Houghton Mifflin) and Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (2007). She also edited Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (Beacon Press, 1998)  Ms. Lear is the author of numerous academic and popular articles on Carson, as well as the author of introductions to the 40th and 50th anniversary editions of Silent Spring. Ms. Lear holds a Ph.D. in History from George Washington University. She has served as a Senior Smithsonian Research Associate, a Beinecke Fellow, Research Professor of Environmental History at George Washington University and Senior Research Scholar in History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 

Tom LeCompte is a writer at Air and Space magazine who authored The Last Sure Thing: The Life and Times of Bobby Riggs in 2003. LeCompte's articles have been published in The Economist, Popular Science, and other noted publications.

Jane Mersky Leder is currently writing a book about love, sex, and World War II; you can reach her to share your own wartime experience at j.leder@comcast.net .