Authors

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.

Brook Manville is a writer and independent consultant whose career has encompassed positions in both academia and management. After completing advanced degrees in history, he became an assistant professor of Greek history at Northwestern University. He left academia to work as a media and technology executive followed by a strategy and organizational consultant, serving as CLO for Saba Software and the United Way of America. He was later Chief Knowledge Officer and partner at McKinsey & Co. before becoming principal of his own firm.

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He is the winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and has been a Pulitzer finalist two other times for his journalism and again for They Marched Into Sunlight, a book about Vietnam and the sixties. Maraniss is also author of bestselling works on Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi, and Roberto Clemente. He is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Maraniss and his wife, Linda, live in Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Mr. Marberry is a New York free-lance writer who has contributed to HORIZON as well as to AMERICAN HERITAGE .

This article is a chapter from a book, Lola Montez in America , to be published next fall. Mr. Marberry lives in New York, is author of Splendid Poseur , a biography of Joaquin Miller, and The Golden Voice , a life of I. S. Kalloch.

Roland Marchand is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. This article is adapted from his book, Advertising the American Dream , to be published by the University of California Press in August.

Jack Marck is a retired history and geography teacher living in Bel Air, Maryland.

A television show based on John Margolies’s book Fun Along the Road: American Tourist Attractions will run on the History Channel this summer.

John F. Mariani is a writer and food critic and the author of The Dictionary of American Food and Drink .

—Paul Mariani is a poet and author whose most recent biography is The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane .

John Mariani, food critic and historian (and author of many books, including The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink, which contains 500 classic recipes—among them an unsurpassable one for chicken pot pie) publishes a “Virtual Gourmet Newsletter” available at www.johnmariani.com .

Dr. Mark Callaghan is an art historian, lecturer, and resident historian for Viking Cruises. He specializes in the memorialization of conflict and trauma, and his monograph, Empathetic Memorials, is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Callaghan also presents and writes on many subjects, including the history of South America and the Age of Discovery.

Alice Goldfarb Marquis was a cultural historian and journalist who wrote eight books, including Alfred H. Barr Jr: Missionary to the Modern, a revealing biography of the long-time director of the Museum of Modern Art. She earned a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California San Diego in 1978. Her doctoral dissertation on Duchamp became her debut book. Subsequent books included Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg, Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare, and Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding.

Dana P. Marriott wrote the article "When Christmas Was Banned in Boston" featured in the December 1967 issue of American Heritage. It discusses a 1659 law in Massachusetts that prevented any celebration of the holiday for 21 years.

Mr. Penick is an associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago. He encountered Marsh’s uncompleted autobiography, of which this article is a fragment, m the O. C. Marsh Papers at the Tale University Library. The excerpt appears here with the library’s kind permission.

Megan Marshall is writing a biography of the Peabody sisters to be published by Houghton Mifflin. She wishes to thank the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations, for their permission to quote from unpublished letters and journals.

Brigadier General Samuel Lyman Atwood "SLAM" Marshall served in both world wars. During the Second World War he was the Army’s chief historian in the European theater. Gen. Marshall wrote many books of military history including The American Heritage History of World War I and two books on the war in Korea, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. For many years Marshall was also chief editorial writer of the Detroit News. 

D. M. Marshman, Jr., is a former journalist, screenwriter, and advertising executive who is now director of information for The Campaign for Yale, the largest ($370 million) private fundraising effort ever attempted.

John F. Marszalek, Jr., teaches history at Gannon College, Erie, Pennsylvania. This article resulted from research for a book on the life of Cadet Whittaker that is nearing completion. Professor Marszalek wishes to acknowledge the assistance of a Cannon faculty research grant and the aid of a student assistant, Edward Grade.

John Stuart Martin was managing editor of TIME magazine until 1938, and the author of several books, including The Home Owners Tree Book, General Manpower Inc.; Learning to Gun: A Plain ‐ Spoken Manual for the Ardent but Unaccomplished, and a series of picture histories for Crown Publishers.  

Copyright ©1962 by George F. Scheer

Rebecca Martin is a free-lance writer in New York City with an interest in decorative arts.

COPYRIGHT© 1977 BY JOHN BARTLOW MARTIN Cordially yours, [Adlai E. Stevenson]’”

Justin Martin is a journalist, author, and public speaker. He has written several books on major American historical subjects, including Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians (2014), Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted (2011), and A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery (2018). A former staff writer at Fortune, Martin's articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines such as Newsweek, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Forest Hills Gardens, New York. 

John A. Martini has been a historian of San Francisco for almost twenty-five years. His most recent work is Fortress Alcatraz , published by Pacific Monograph of Kailua, Hawaii.

∗ Martin E. Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, associate editor of The Christian Century , and author of many books, including the National Book Award winner Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America .