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A graduate of Heidelberg University, Dr. Rudolph Marx has been practicing surgery in Los Angeles since 1923. He has written a number of articles on medical history, and is now working on a book on the medical profiles of the Presidents of the United States. This article is an adaptation of one chapter in that book.

Harry Matthei retired from advertising last year and became a freelance writer. He died in February of this year.

Mary Jane Matz is contributing editor of the magazine Opera News , published by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She is the author of Stars in the Sun , a book about Metropolitan Opera singers, and of a number of articles on the history of opera.

A Civil War Album of Paintings by the Prince de Joinville included, in addition to this essay, an introduction by the Comte de Paris, the present Orleanist claimant to the French throne, and an article on the French influence on the American Civil War by General James M. Gavin, former United States Ambassador to France. General Gavin’s research provided some of the information included in the captions that accompany the Prince de Joinville’s paintings. The complete volume, which was printed in Paris by Librairie Jules Tallandier, was published in the United States by Atheneum.

Stephen May writes frequently on the arts. The exhibit “The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest” will show at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, March 23 through May 18 before moving on to the Burchfteld-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York (June 15 through August 17), and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D. C. (September 26 through January 25, 1998).

Martin Mayer is the author of more than twenty books, including Wall Street: Men and Money; Madison Avenue, USA; The Schools; The Bankers; The Lawyers; The Builders ; and, most recently, Making News . He lives in New York City and Shelter Island, New York.

Lida Mayo is chief historian of the Ordnance Corps, Department of the Army, and a contributor to the official U.S. Army in World War II series. Aside from this work, her special field of interest is American social history. She is currently working on a biography of the nineteenth-century newspaperman George Alfred Townsend. Quotations from the Adams Papers are from the microfilm edition, by permission of the Massachusetts Historical Society. For further reading: John Adams , by Page Smith (Doubleday, 1962, 2 vols.); Abigail Adams , by Janet Whitney (Little, Brown, 1947).

Kenneth McArdle was the associate editor of the Chicago Daily News and head of its editorial page. "He was scholarly, polished, sophisticated, learned and a very good writer," said Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ray Coffey, who worked with him. "He was very gentlemanly and a first-class journalist." McArdle also served as Editor of Collier's from 1955 to 1957, and published A Cavalcade of Collier’s, an anthology of essays from that magazine.  

Benjamin McArthur is a professor of history at Southern College in Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. In 1984 Temple University Press published his book Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920 .

Robert McBride has left behind his career as an intrepid aeronaut and is now editor of the Tennessee Historical Quarterly.

Shawn McBurney is a special assistant to Congressman Ed Royce, who represents California’s Thirty-ninth District.

—Bruce McCall’s books include Zany Afternoons and Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada .

— Charles McCarry’s latest novel of intrigue is Lucky Bastard .

Joe McCarthy is the president of McCarthy Communications, Inc., and the former president of BKLYN Magazine. He was the writer and producer of a film, The Brave Man, about the Battle of Brooklyn during the Revolutionary War.

A former newspaper and radio-television journalist, Mr. McCarthy now lives and writes in Goshen, New Hampshire. There is no book-length biography of Vivian Burnett. His The Romantick Lady (Scribner’s, 1927) is the most substantial biography of his mother.

—J. D. McClatchy’s new collection of poems is Hazmat . He teaches at Yale and is editor of The Yale Review .

Wilfred McClay is a professor of history at Hillsdale College. He previously taught at Georgetown, Tulane, Johns Hopkins, the University of Dallas, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Professor McClay is the author of eight books including Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, a widely used textbook and narrative history of the United States. He graduated from St. John's College and received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.

Bill McCloud served in the 147th Assault Support Helicopter company in Vietnam from March 1968 to March 1969. He taught for 30 years at Pryor Junior High School in Oklahoma. In 2009, Harvard purchased Mr. McCloud's collection of letters and materials which became his 1989 book What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam. He now serves as an Adjunct Professor of History at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Susannah McCorkle’s sixteenth CD, Someone to Watch Over Me — The Songs of George Gershwin , was released in April. Her articles on Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith have appeared in previous issues.

Susannah McCorkle appeared internationally and recorded seventeen albums as a cabaret singer, and she wrote previously for American Heritage about Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, and Irving Berlin. She died in May of this year.

John R. McCormick is owner and president of the Communications Guild Company in Huntsville, Alabama.

Thomas K. McCraw, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas and current Iy a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Business Administration, is the author of TV A and the Power Fight, 1933-1939 (1971)

David McCullough was an author, historian, lecturer, and former editor at American Heritage. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and Francis Parkman Prizes. He has also earned the Los Angeles Times Book Award, New York Public Library's Literary Lion Award, the Saint Louis Literary Award from the Saint Louis University Library Associates, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

John McDonough, who has written on jazz for many years for Down Beat and The Wall Street Journal, wrote the liner notes for the seventy-fifth-anniversary reissue of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s first recordings. He is currently a lecturer in jazz history for the Department of Music Performance Studies at Northwestern University.

Walter A. McDougall is Professor of History and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Amherst College and a Vietnam veteran, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1974. McDougall is the author of many books, most recently Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 (2004). His other recent books include Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter With the World Since 1776 (1997) and Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur (1993). In 1986, Professor McDougall won the Pulitzer Prize for The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.

William S. McFeely (1930-2019) was an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Grant: A Biography (W. W. Norton, 1981). He was also the Lincoln Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass (W. W. Norton, 1991) and several other biographies, including Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom (W. W. Norton, 1994); Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen (W. W. Norton, 1983); and Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins (W. W. Norton, 2006).

An associate professor at the University of Texas, Thomas F. McGann specializes in the history of Latin America. He is the author of Argentina, the United States and the Inter-American System, 1880–1914 , and many articles, including “Prescott’s Conquests” ( AMERICAN HERITAGE , October, 1957). For further reading: The Journey and Route of Álvar Núñez, Cabeza de Vaca , by Cleve Hallenbeck (Arthur H. Clark Co., 1939); The Narrative of Álvar Núñez Cabeça de Vaca , edited by Frederick W. Hodge (Scribner’s, 1907); The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca , by Morris Bishop (Century, 1933).

Larry G. McKee, a writer and photographer, lives in Altoona.

Mrs. McKee, who holds a Ph.D. in American studies, was Visiting Research Associate in Naval History at the Smithsonian Institution last year.

James D. Hart, professor of English at the University of California, is the author of The Oxford Companion to American Literature and The Popular Book .

James McKinley is the author of Assassination in America .

Sam McKinney is coordinator of the Columbia River Heritage Program at the Oregon Historical Society. His recent book, Reach of Tide, Ring of History , was published by the Oregon Historical Society Press.

John McLaughlin is an Emeritus Professor of English at Clemson University, where he was head of the Humanities Division. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello, about the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his fifty-year love affair with Monticello, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1988. McLaughlin also wrote To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Letters to a President, and has contributed to such scholarly journals as Shakespeare Quarterly and Modern Drama.

Mike McLaughlin and his wife live in Winthrop, Massachusetts. They are deeply grateful to the members of the U.S.S. Maddox Association for all their assistance in writing this article, especially Ken and Lily Chestnut. Readers wishing to know more about the Maddox can get in touch with the U.S. Naval Institute’s History Department in Annapolis, Maryland, for contact information.

Dr. McMahon is director of historical programs at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.

Jodi McMaster, a Texas lawyer, is the author of the forthcoming Beyond Slip and Fall: Premises Liability for Paralegals (Estrin Publishing).

George McMillan wrote The Old Breed: A History of the First Marine Division in World War II; he served with the division in the Pacific theatre as a Marine combat correspondent. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has contributed articles on the Corps and on other subjects to many of the nation’s leading periodicals. The drawings on this and the preceding pages were done by Mitchell Jamieson, a Navy combat artist in World War II and now a faculty member at the University of Maryland.

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the co-authorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. His most recent novel, When the Light Goes, is available from Simon & Schuster. He lives in Archer City, Texas

Catherine McNeur is an associate professor of history at Portland State University and the author of Taming Manhattan and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science. Prof. McNeur is the recipient of several awards, including the American Society for Environmental History’s George Perkins Marsh Prize. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Mac McPhail is a columnist for The Sampson Independent of Clinton, NC, and author of Wandering Thoughts from a Wondering Mind, a collection of his columns from over the years.

James M. McPherson, the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, is perhaps America’s foremost living Civil War scholar. Among his books are his one-volume history of the war, Battle Cry of Freedom, Lincoln and The Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, winner of the Lincoln Prize in 1998. 

Mary Frech McVicker is a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction based in Brookfield, Illinois.

Jon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose latest books include, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Random House, 2018) and Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Random House, 2015). 

Ellen B. Meacham is an award-winning writer who teaches journalism at The University of Mississippi and is the author of Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi. (University Press of Mississippi, 2018) Her work has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today Online, Charleston Post and Courier, Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, and numerous other publications. She has been featured on “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on MSNBC, the BBC, Ireland’s Newstalk Radio, Newsmax television, “Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal” and on numerous other public radio shows around the nation.

Judson Mead is associate editor of Americana magazine.

Charles L. Mee, Jr.’s most recent book is The Genius of the People , the story of the Constitutional Convention. It was published by Harper & Row earlier this year. Mr. Mee lives in New York.

Ira Meistrich is a freelance television producer who lives in New York City