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—Max Morath is a nationally known entertainer and the author of The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards .

Mr. Morcom, who is with the Department of Physical Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has based his article largely on his collection of Hale family letters and documents.

Ethan Mordden is the author of The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical .

James Morgan is a writer whose works include The Distance to the Moon, If These Walls had Ears, and worked with President Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, on her autobiography, Leading with My Heart. His latest work, Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream, details Morgan's living with his wife as an expatriate in France.

Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was a historian of the Puget Sound region and history teacher at Tacoma Community College. His book Skid Road, and informal portrait of Seattle, was said to be the "longest-running Pacific Northwest book in print." Morgan authored or co-authored 19 books including The Last Wilderness, A Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range, and Confederate Raider in the North Pacific: The Saga of the C.S.S. Shenandoah, 1864-65.

Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale who authored many books about the American colonies and the Founding Fathers. His 2002 book, Benjamin Franklin, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Other works include The Challenge of the American Revolution, The Genius of George Washington, and The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop.

H. Wayne Morgan was a Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of William McKinley and His America, New Muses: Art in American Culture, and Oklahoma: A Bicentennial History.

The author was a senior editor of Look from 1953 to 1958. He has written two novels and many articles and was the press secretary to Mayor John Lindsay in New York City from 1969 to 1973. His article on Adlai Stevenson appeared in the August/September 1984 issue of this magazine.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve (1887-1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. Morison received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. In 1942, President Roosevelt commissioned Morison to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). He ralso wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.

Elting E. Morison is Killian Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

—Donald R. Morris is a historian, a novelist, and the publisher of a weekly newsletter.

—Jan Morris’s most recent book is Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest .

Nancy Morris is a Hawaii historian who has worked for the University of Hawaii and worked as curator of the Jean Charlot Collection. Morris has written several books about the Aloha State and serves on the board of directors of the Hawaiian Historical Society.

Richard K. Morris, a grandson of the Holland ’s first engineer, Charles A. Morris, teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and is at work on a biography of John P. Holland. Courtlandt Canby of New York was co-editor of the recently published Dynamic America , an illustrated history of the General Dynamics Corporation, and is the author of Lincoln and the Civil War . He is editor of The Epic of Man , to be published next year by Life .

Richard B. Morris (1904 - 1989) was an American historian who focused on the constitutional, diplomatic, and political history of the American Revolution and the making of the U.S. Constitution. He was the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of many books. In 1966 Morris won the Bancroft Prize in History for his book on the diplomacy of the American Revolution, The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence (1965). He edited the papers of John Jay and published a biography, John Jay, the Nation, and the Court, focusing on Jay's work as a diplomat and as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

Roy Morris Jr. is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of four well-received books on the Civil War and post-Civil War eras: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 (Simon and Schuster, 2003); The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2000); Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company (Crown, 1996); and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan (Crown, 1992). He also edited and wrote the introduction for a popular new edition of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Gregory D. L. Morris, former global-markets editor for Chemical Week , and former executive editor of Bank Investment Marketing , is a member of the editorial board of the Museum of American Financial History in New York.

Joseph L. Morrison is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill.

Ann Morrow is an independent journalist and editor based in New York's Hudson River Valley region. She has 30 years experience writing for newspapers and regional and national magazines, and concentrates on historical and environmental topics.

A Houston resident, Randall Morton founded The Progressive Forum and co-founded The Oilfield Breakfast Forum, the largest speaker series in the petroleum industry, which he hosted for nine years.  He operated Randall Morton International for 32 years, an agency providing market communication, advertising, and public relations to leading oil service companies in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Europe.  Morton earned a degree in government from Georgetown University, and a second degree from Tulsa University in communications, where he also served as an adjunct professor teaching advertising design and copy.  He is a member of a working group at Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, and an enrolled member of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma.

Louis Morton, chief of the Pacific Section of the Army’s Office of Military History, has written on military and colonial history. His latest book, The Fall of the Philippines , is a volume in the Army history of World War II.

Henry Moscow was an author and editor of the New York Post. His books such as Thomas Jefferson, The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins, Russia Under the Czars, and The Book of New York Firsts. He also wrote Domestic Descendants, based on the television series Wild, Wild World of Animals.

Don Moser, who was formerly an assistant managing editor of LIFE , is now afree-lance writer who lives in Washington, D.C.He is currently working on a book about the China-Burma-India theater in World War II.

J. Robert Moskin is an award-winning historian and journalist. He has reported from troubled spots around the globe: from Korea, the Middle East, eastern Europe, and three times from the Vietnam war – including a wartime visit to enemy-held Hanoi.

Bill Moyers is a journalist at CBS News. This article is based on a speech he made recently at the University of Texas, Austin.

Mr. Moynihan, pathologist of megalopolis, was Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1963 to 1965. Since 1966 he has been director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, and professor of education and urban politics at Harvard. He is co-author (with Nathan Glazer) of Beyond the Melting Pot . In a somewhat different version, “The Soulless City” was delivered as a lecture at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society last spring.

Maura Moynihan is a New York author and journalist who has written for Vogue, The New Republic, Interview, Epoch Times and the Guardian. A long time critic of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, she has worked Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Her works of fiction include “Yoga Hotel” and “Kaliyuga.”   

Ruth D. Muehl teaches English at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

Harry Miles Muheim has published a novel and is working on another one. He also writes speeches, documentary films, and political television spots. He lives in San Francisco.

A former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who has written on a variety of historical topics, Bob Mullin now teaches high school English.

Lewis Mumford (1895 – 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher, and influential literary critic noted for his writings on cities and urban architecture. Mumford served as the architectural critic for The New Yorker magazine for over 30 years. His 1961 book, The City in History, received the National Book Award.

Jerrold Mundis is a writer, speaker, and counselor. He has written 17 novels, 13 non-fiction books, and some 100 short stories, essays, and articles. He has written under various pseudonyms, including Robert Calder, Eric Corder, and Julia Withers. Two of Mundis's well known novels are Gerhardt's Children and The Dogs. His works have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Weekly, and been selected for The Book-of-the-Month Club.

Wendy Murphy, a former editor at AMERICAN HERITAGE , is now living in Connecticut, where she hopes to have more time to tend to her own flowers and vegetables. She is the author of Gardening Under Lights , published this spring by Time-Life Books. For further reading: An Age of Flowers by Doris L. Swarthout (The Chatham Press, 1975).

Richard Murphy is a freelance writer.

Cullen Murphy is the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and writer of the comic strip “Prince Valiant.” This essay is drawn in part from his new book The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own , published this month by Houghton Mifflin.

Mr. Murray teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa and farms five acres at nearby West Branch. Mr. Wilson, a free-lance photographer with a special interest in conservation, lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington. He took many of the photos in this portfolio for his Grass Land, published by Wide Skies Press in Polk, Nebraska.

Mr. Murray is the head of the history department at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Public Opinion and the American Red Cross (1950) and of Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria (1955).

Charles Murray is a political scientist, author, and libertarian, and the F.A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.   Mr. Murray is the author most recently of By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission (2015). His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Coming Apart (2012), Real Education (2008), In Our Hands (2006), Human Accomplishment (2003), the controversial 1994 New York Times bestseller The Bell Curve, and Losing Ground. Dr. Murray has Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in history from Harvard University.  

Ivan Musicant is the recipient of the 1987 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature. His latest book, The Banana Wars , will be published in May. He is currently at work on Divided Waters: The Civil War at Sea .

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Philip Myers, a retired manufacturer of architectural millwork, has for over a half century devoted his spare time to writing. His first article appeared in Munsey’s Magazine in 1917.

John Myers Myers, who lives in Tempe, Arizona, is the author of such books on the Southwest as The Alamo, The Last Chance: Tombstone’s Early Years , and Doc Holliday .

Gerald Nachman is the author, most recently, of Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s (Pantheon).

In addition to his recent Los Angeles: Mission to Modern City , of which this article forms a part, Remi Nadeau has written three other books on California history, among them The Water Seekers (Doubleday, 1950).

Cynthia Nadelman is an art critic and poet who lives in New York City.