Authors

David M. Ludlum is a meteorologist and the author of many books and articles on weather. His most recent, The Nantucket Weather Book , has just been published by the Nantucket Historical Association.

Claire Lui works as an editorial consultant for both print and online resources, in addition to being a writer. A graduate of Columbia University, where she studied History, Lui has also worked as a food and literary critic, and taught English in China.

John Lukacs served as a Professor of History at Chestnut Hill College from 1947 to 1994, and is the noted author of over 30 books including:Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century, The Legacy of the Second World War and The Future of History in 2011.

Paul Lukacs is chair of the English Department at Loyola College in Maryland and the wine columnist for the Washington Times .

Eric Lund was a long-time editor of the Chicago Daily News, where he served as assistant managing editor.

Betty Mussell Lundy is a freelance writer living in Illinois.

Michael Luo is the Executive Editor of The New Yorker and the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.

—John Lukacs is the author, most recently, of The Hitler of History and A Thread of Years .

Stuart Lutz is a writer living in New Jersey. The Flag Code is available on the Internet at www.usflag.org/us.code36.html .

Susan Elizabeth Lyman, a native New Yorker, is Associate in the Education Department of the Museum of the City of New York. She has lectured and written many booklets on the city’s history and is co-author with Andreas Feininger of The Face of New York , a photographic and text study.

From the book, The Tastemakers , copyright 1949, 1953, 1954 by J. Russell Lynes, published by Harper & Brothers. Russell Lynes, Managing Editor of Harper’s Magazine , is the author of Snobs and Guests as well as The Tastemakers , in which this article appears. This current best-seller discusses the evolution of American taste in the past century.

Catherine Lynn is the author of Wallpaper in America , recently published by W. W. Norton & Company.

Peter Lyon (1915-1996) was a New York-based free-lance writer and a veteran contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE. His first book, Success Story: The Life and Times of S. S. McClure, is a biography of his late grandfather. Throughout his career Mr. Lyons served as President of the Radio Writers Guild and wrote many pieces for radio shows before publishing several well-received biographies.

Thomas Macaren is a freelance writer and is currently at work on a book about films of the Cold War era.

Neill Macaulay (1935-2007) was a writer, professor and a former lieutenant in Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement Army. Macaulay authored books including: The Sandino Affair (1967), A Rebel in Cuba (1970). After leaving Cuba, Macaulay taught Latin American history at the University of Florida for twenty years before retiring as professor emeritus in 1986.

Mr. Maccracken, who is a lawyer in Cleveland, was the author of “Althea and the Judges” in our June, 1963, issue.

J. Tevere MacFadyen is the author of Gaining Ground: The Renewal of America’s Small Farms .

A physicist, Charles Mack has worked for NA TO, the Mitre Corporation, and, for twenty years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a specialist in Soviet and Chinese technology.

Mr. Mackintosh is a historian with the National Park Service in Washington, D.C.  He has written extensivly for the National Park Service and has published material on the history of the service itself, and on the histories of Rock Creek Park in D.C. and the Assateague Island Seashore.  

Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1933 and 1953.  He was a veteran of World War I, former Librarian of Congress, and assistant secretary of state and cultural diplomat. As the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, he occupied the oldest chair at Harvard, one first held by John Quincy Adams.

A recipient of many literary prizes and awards, Mr. MacLennan is one of Canada’s best-known writers as well as a professor at McGiIl University in Montreal. All of his novels, among which The Watch That Ends the Night (1959) and Two Solitudes (1945) are perhaps the most distinguished, have profoundly Canadian themes. For further reading: Canada: A Modern History , by J. Bartlet Brebner (University of Michigan Press, 1960); Colony to Nation: A History of Canada , by Arthur M. Lower (Longmans, Green, 1946); The French Canadians, 1760–1945 , by Mason Wade (Macmillan, 1955).

Neil MacNeil is a correspondent in the Washington bureau of Time magazine and is author of Forge of Democracy (David McKay Company, 1963), a history of the House of Representatives.

Robert James Maddox is a professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University. His most recent book is Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later (University of Missouri Press, 1995).

Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and the author of four books and over twenty articles on constitutional law and intellectual property. His most recent book, “The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights Became the Bill of Rights,” was published in 2018. Prof. Magliocca received his undergraduate degree from Stanford, his law degree from Yale, and joined the faculty after two years as an attorney at Covington and Burling and one year as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

This is the second contribution to AMERICAN HERITAGE by Washington’s Senator Magnuson. His previous article, “Oneshot War with England,” appeared in the April, 1960, issue. For further reading: Westward Expansion: History of the American Frontier , by Ray Alien Billington (Macmillan, 1960); The Sod House Frontier , 1854-1890, by Everett Dick (Johnsen, 1954); The Great Plains , by Walter P. Webb (Ginn, 1931).

Dr. Magrath, a specialist in constitutional history, teaches political science at Brown University. His biography of the Chief Justice in the case of Munn v. Illinois, Morrison R. Waite: The Triumph of Character , was published last year by Macmillan. For further reading: The Granger Movement , by Solon J. Buck (University of Nebraska, 1963).

Pauline Maier was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at MIT. She primarily wrote on the American Revolution and Early Republic. Her book, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, was named as a top book of 1997 by the New York Times Book Review and was a finalist in General Nonfiction for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Her book Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 won the prestigious George Washington Book Prize in 2010.

Joyce Lee Malcolm is a historian and constitutional scholar specializing in British and Colonial American History.  Malcolm focuses on the development of individual rights and on war and society. She is the Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University as well as the author of eight books and numerous articles.  Her book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, was published by Harvard University Press and cited by the majority in both Supreme Court landmark opinions on the Second Amendment: District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago. She is a member of the National Council on the Humanities.

Mary R. Maloney, a recent graduate of St. Joseph’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, is now an officer in the Navy, stationed at the Pentagon. Her article originally appeared in the Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society . For further reading: Toward Gettysburg, A Biography of General John F. Reynolds , by Edward J. Nichols (Pennsylvania Slate University Press, 1958).

Catherine Mambretti wrote “The Burden of the Ballot” while working toward her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation (1979) was the first critical edition of the poetry of Katherine Philips (1632-1664). After teaching at several universities, during the early years of the personal-computer industry she turned to high-tech education and has published widely in the field of educational technology. Beginning in the 1990s she turned to mystery fiction. Among her works (writing as C. C. Mambretti) are The Juror Hangs and Chalk Ghost (Light Pages, LLC). In May, 2013, her short story featuring the world's first female detective ("The Very Private Detectress") appeared in the Mystery Writers of America anthology, The Mystery Box. Snow Ghost, a Depression Era mystery, will appear in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Peter C. Mancall is a Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California, and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He specializes in early American history and early Native American history, and has written five books, most recently Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson—A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic, released in 2009.

William Manchester lives in Middletown, Connecticut. His works have ranged from studies of John F. Kennedy and Douglas MacArthur to a history of the United States from the Great Depression to Watergate. The first volume of his Churchill life, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Visions of Glory: 1874–1932 , was published in 1984 by Little, Brown and Company. This article will be incorporated into his second volume, to appear this fall.

Michael Mandelbaum is a professor emeritus and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of over a dozen books on American foreign policy, including That Used to Be Us (with Thomas Friedman, 2011) and The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made, a study of Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gandhi, Ben-Gurion, and Mao (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Charles C. Mann is a journalist and the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Vintage Books), which won the National Academies Communication Award for the best book of the year. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he is the recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.  He is a correspondent for The Atlantic, Science, and Wire, and has also written for Fortune, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post, as well as for the TV network HBO and the series Law & Order. 

The idea of writing a book on the friendship between T.R. and Taft came to William Manners via his wife, who was doing research in the period. Although he has never written history before, he is a professional writer and editor, currently on the staff of the Famous Writers School in West port, Connecticut. TR and Will: A Friendship That Split the Republican Party , from which this article is taken, will be published later this month by Harcourt, Brace if World. COPYRIGHT © 1969 BY WILLIAM MANNERS

Daniel P. Mannix (1911-1997) had nearly as many adventures as an Oz character: they range from sword-swallowing in a sideshow to hunting and photographing big game in Africa. His best-known works are the 1958 book Those About to Die, which remained in continuous print for three decades, and the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound which in 1981 was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions.

This article is excerpted from The Old Navy by Daniel P. Mannix 3d and edited by Daniel P, Mannix 4th. The book will be published by Macmillan this fall.

Howard Mansfield is a free-lance writer who lives in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He is co-author of a book tentatively entitled The Weekend Naturalist , to be published by Prentice-Hall Press in 1987.

Lance Corporal Shane Manson served at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, S.C. specializing in photography.