Authors

Ethan A. Nadelmann is assistant professor of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He chairs the Princeton Working Group on the Future of Drug Use and Alternatives to Drug Prohibition.

Both Dr. Castel and Dr. Nahm are members of the history department of Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo. This is Dr. Castel’s third appearance in AMERICAN HERITAGE ; a Kansan, he was formerly a Civil War specialist but has recently widened his field of study. Dr. Nahm was born in Pyongyang, Korea (where, incidentally, the General Sherman was destroyed), and has written many articles and monographs on the history of his native country.

David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Also an award-winning author, Nasaw has written such books as Andrew Carnegie, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, and Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements.

Thomas J. Naughton, holder of an engineering degree from Princeton and a former magazine editor, is now a free-lance writer living in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Steve Neal is a political writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune , and the author of four books on American politics.

Avon Neal and his wife, Ann Parker, tend fruitful vineyards of Americana at their home in North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Their article on ephemeral folk figures appeared in our April, 1970, number, and their gravestone rubbings have been widely hailed and exhibited. A limited edition of one of their original rubbings (not shown here) is available, framed and shipped, to our readers at $55. Orders or requests for more information should be addressed to The Publisher, AMERICAN HERITAGE , 551 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10017.

William Neely is an amateur pilot and author of numerous books on auto racing. This article is adapted from his book Pilots , published this August by Simon & Schuster.

Daniel Nelson, a professor of history at the University of Akron, is the author of Shifting Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of American Labor, From the 182Os to the Present (Ivan R. Dee, 1997).

Richard L. Neuberger is the junior United States senator from Oregon and a native of that state. He is presenting the fee received for this article to Portland State College, to be awarded toward a scholarship to students specializing in the study or teaching of Oregon history.

Allan Nevins (1890-1971) was an American historian and journalist, and Chairman of the American Heritage Advisory Board. He was known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as President Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. Nevins was also chairman of the history department at Columbia University, and President of the American Historical Association.

Wellington Newcomb is a practicing attorney in New York City. From 1954 to 1956 he was Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Proprietor of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop in Chicago, Mr. Newman is an experienced appraiser of manuscripts and collections in the fields of American history and literature. This article was adapted from a speech given before the Manuscript Society and printed in its magazine, Manuscripts. Additional copies of the speech may be obtained at a small charge from one of our sponsoring societies, the American Association for State and Local History, 132 Ninth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.

Tom Nicholas currently is William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on linking historical U.S. patent records to Federal Censuses to examine the life cycle of inventors and their contributions to U.S. economic growth over the long run. After receiving his doctorate from Oxford University, he also taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at the London School of Economics.

Roy F. Nichols is vice-provost find dean of the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books on the American political cumule, including The Disruption of American Democracy , which received the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1949.

Lauren Nicole is a freelance writer living in Austin who blogs at hipstercrite.com. She wrote the script for the film Loves Her Gun, which premiered at SXSW ‘13.

Glenn A. Niemeyer is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley Slate College. Allendale. Michigan, and is the author of The Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds (Michigan State Univeristy Press, 1963). Together they are working on a full-length biography of Durant.

Ada Nisbet was a professor of English at UCLA who wrote several studies of nineteenth-century Anglo-American relations. She published Dickens and Ellen Ternan (1952) and edited Dickens Centennial Essays.

Mary Noel was educated at Radcliffe and Columbia University. She is the author of Villains Galore (Macmillan, 1954), about the era of the popular story weekly, and teaches history at the Polytechnic Institute, San German, Puerto Rico.

Bennett Nolan, a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission lives in Reading. He has collected, over many year, the facts about these paintings and the people who appear in them.

William A. Nolen, M.D., graduated from Tufts medical school in 1953. He received his surgical training in the Cornell Surgical Division at Bellevue and served in the Army Medical Corps. He is currently the chief of surgery at the Litchfield Clinic in Litchfield, Minnesota. Among the eight books he has written for a general audience is The Making of a Surgeon . His last article for American Heritage was “ A Short History of Heart Surgery ” (August/ September 1983).

Michael Norman, a professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, co-authored Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009) with his wife, Elizabeth.

David A. Norris is a freelance magazine writer and the former president of the Cape Fear Civil War Round Table. Born in Charlotte, Norris specializes in the Civil War, more specifically North Carolina's role. His first book, Potter's Raid: The Union Cavalry's Boldest Expedition in Eastern North Carolina, was published in 2008.

This article has been adapted from Mary Beth Norton’s forthcoming Liberty’s Daughters , to be published soon by Little, Brown & Co. Ms. Norton is an associate professor of history at Cornell University.

Jeanne Van Nostrand, formerly librarian of the California Historical Society, is co-author of California Pictorial (University of California Press, 1948), and of A Camera in the Gold Rush (Book Club of California, 1946). For further reading: Sea Bears, The Story of the Fur Seal , by Fredericka Martin (Chilton Company, 1960).

Frederic D. O'Brien is a former senior editor of American Heritage, Invention & Technology, and National Review. He earned a B.A. from Columbia University and worked as a proofreader at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom before turning to magazine editing.

Patrick K. O'Donnell is an independent historian and the author of 13 books on American military history, with topics ranging from the Revolutionary War to the Battle of Fallujah. Notable works include Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah, Washington's Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution, and The Indispensables: The Diverse Soldier-Mariners Who Shaped the Country, Formed the Navy, and Rowed Washington Across the Delaware.

Stephen B. Oates is the author of sixteen books, including With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln and Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., both recipients of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and Christopher Award. Other notable works include The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861. Oates was featured in Ken Burns's The Civil War series on PBS and received the Nevins-Freeman Award of the Chicago Civil War Round Table for lifetime achievement in the field of Civil War studies. A former Guggenheim fellow, he holds a B.A., M.A., and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Oates is also a professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Josiah Ober is a historian and Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University, where he holds the Markos & Eleni Kounalakis Chair in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis. He specializes in historical institutionalism and political theory, focusing on the political thought and practice of the ancient Greek world and its contemporary relevance. He is the author of a number of books on those subjects, including Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (2008), and Democracy and Knowledge (2008). He has also published about 75 articles and chapters, including recent articles in American Political Science Review, Philosophical Studies, Hesperia, Polis, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.

—David Obst is the author of the memoir Too Good to Be Forgotten: Changing America in the ’60s and ’70s .

Ed Offley has worked as a military reporter and editor since 1981, including for The Ledger-Star in Norfolk, Virginia, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the online newspaper Stripes.com, DefenseWatch at Soldiers for the Truth and The News Herald in Panama City, Florida. He is the author of five books on military subjects, including The Burning Shore: How Hitler's U-boats Brought World War II to America, Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic, and Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon - the Untold Story of the USS Scorpion, an investigative report on the loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) in 1968.

A frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE , Charlton Ogburn has written several books on North America, the most recent being The Southern Appalachians: A Wilderness Quest (William Morrow, 1975).

Charlton Ogburn, Jr., is now at work on The Continent in our Hands , a first-person narrative of discovery of the country’s natural splendors and of what he believes confronts them.

—Bruce Olds is the author of the novels Raising Holy Hell , about John Brown, and the recently published Bucking the Tiger .

Thomas Oliphant is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Washington columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of four books, including The Road to Camelot. Al Franken says “Oliphant brings more to the table than anyone I know.” Madeline Albright called him “the Will Rogers of our times.” Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that his book Praying for Gil Hodges was a “small masterpiece.” Oliphant has been a frequent guest on television news programs, including "Nightline" on ABC-TV, "The NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer on PBS, "Face The Nation," the "Today" show, "Good Morning America" and "CBS This Morning."  Oliphant was also a regular guest on "The Al Franken Show."

Kathryn S. Olmsted is a member of the history department at the University of California, Davis, where she has taught since 1993. A 1985 graduate of Stanford University, she gained her PhD in 1993 from the university where she now teaches. She chaired her department from 2013 until 2016 and since has been interim chair of gender, sexuality, and women's studies. Olmsted is the author of several books, including Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism (The New Press), Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI, Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. She is currently writing a book on newspaper publishers in the US and the UK in the years before World War II.

Admiral Olsen was a career US Navy officer who helped deliver naval vessels to the Russians during World War II and was a member of the American staff at the Yalta talks. He also served as Commandant of the 14th Naval District.

Lynne Olson is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.