Authors

Peter Quinn joined Time Inc. as the chief speechwriter in 1985 and retired as corporate editorial director for Time Warner in 2007. He received a B.A. from Manhattan College in 1969, an M.A. in history from Fordham University in 1974 and completed all the requirements for a doctorate except the dissertation. He was awarded a Ph.D., honoris causa, by Manhattan College in 2002. His 1994 novel Banished Children of Eve (Viking/Penguin) won a 1995 American Book Award. Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America (Overlook), a collection of non-fiction pieces, was published in February 2007.

W. B. Ragsdale was a working reporter for forty-nine years. He is retired now and working on a book on modern political history, much of which he saw in the making.

Charles W. Ramsdell, Jr. (1909-1973) was the son of noted historian Charles W. Ramsdell and Susanna Griffith Ramsdell. Ramsdell attended the University of Texas and traveled extensively in Mexico before working as a historian for the National Park Service. Ramsdell published a highly-regarded guidebook, San Antonio, a Historical and Pictorial Guide, in 1959 and updated it in 1968.

Wife of the late James G. Randall, Ruth Painter Randall was present at the 1947 opening of the Lincoln Papers in Springfield. The above article is a chapter from Lincoln’s Sons , to be published by Little, Brown and Co. in 1956. Mrs. Randall is now working on a third volume on the Lincoln family.

James G. Randall (1881–1953) was a professor of history at the University of Illinois. He was a nationally prominent historian and served as president of the American Historical Association. His masterwork was the four-volume biography, Lincoln, the President. Other books by Prof. Randall included The Confiscation of Property During the Civil War, Constitutional Problems under Lincoln, The Civil War and Reconstruction, and Lincoln and the South.

Willard Sterne Randall, the Distinguished Scholar in History at Champlain College, has written twelve books. Between his careers as an author and investigative journalist, Randall received the National Magazine Award for Public Service from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Hillman Prize, the Loeb Award and three Pulitzer Prize nominations.  His books include A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin & His Son (1984), Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (1990), Thomas Jefferson: A Life (1993), Alexander Hamilton: A Life (2003), and Ethan Allen: His Life and Times (2011), to name a few.  

William Peirce Rondel’s account of the General Slocum disaster appeared in the October/November 1979 issue.

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Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) was a historian, author, and longtime administrator at the University of Texas. He served as the university's president in 1960, and eventually became the Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 1961 to 1971. He was also instrumental in founding the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which changed its name to the Harry Ransom Center in 1983.

David Rapp is an art historian and has written about history for American Heritage, Technology Review, and Out. He has a degree in film from New York University.  In 2014, he authored Churches and Monasteries in the Holy Land.

Jim Rasenberger is an author and journalist who specializes in modern American history. He has published America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation in 2007, and his next book, The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, will be released in April 2011. Rasenberger has also contributed to The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Wilson Quarterly.

Dan Rather is a world-renowned journalist and the former managing editor and anchor of “CBS Evening News.” Rather began his career in Texas, where he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press, the United Press, and several Texas radio stations before moving to television at KHOU-TV in Houston. In 1962, he joined CBS News, gaining national attention for his coverage of Hurricane Carla and his reporting from the scene of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. As a White House correspondent and later as a foreign correspondent, Rather covered key events like the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. As anchor of "CBS Evening News" from 1981 to 2005, Rather was the longest-serving anchor in the program’s history.

Selma Rattner, who has a master’s degree in preservation from Columbia University, is currently working on a biography of the architect James Renwick (1818-95).

Eric Rauchway  holds the position of Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. The recipient of his B.A. from Cornell in 1991 and Ph.D. from Stamford in 1996, his scholarship has focused on modern American political, social, and economic history, particularly of the Progressive Era and the New Deal. He is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America (2003), The Great Depression and the New Deal (2008), The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (2015), and most recently Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal (2018).

—Diane Ravitch is a Brookings Institution senior fellow, a professor of educational history at New York University, and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education.

—Robert Previdi writes about military and political subjects.

Saunders Redding is the head of the English Department at Hampton Institute in Virginia and the author of several books. This article is adapted from his most recent work, The Lonesome Road , in Doubleday’s “Mainstream of America” series. COPYRIGHT © 1958 BY SAUNDERS REDDING

Elizabeth Reese is a public historian whose work focuses on the American Revolution and the Early Republic. In addition to receiving the 2015 Scott Hartwig Public History Fellowship at the Civil War Institute, Elizabeth has spent over a decade as an interpreter at federal historic sites, including the Hamilton Grange National Memorial and the United States Capitol. Throughout her career, she has developed programs on civil rights, women's history, and the founding if America. 

Richard Reeves is a writer, columnist, and Senior Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has written many presidential biographies including President Kennedy: Profile of Power, which was honored by Time magazine as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993, President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, and his most recent book, Portrait of Camelot: A Thousand Days in the Kennedy White House, released in 2010. 

Ryan Reft is a historian with the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.  He has a PhD in Modern U.S. History from the University of California-San Diego.

William H. Rehnquist (1924-2005) was Chief Justice of the United States and author of All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Originally appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon, Rehnquist served from 1972 to 2005.

—Ruth Reichl is the editor in chief of Gourmet magazine.

Elinor Reichlin was a staff member of Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

Lester A. Reingold’s article on time capsules appeared in the November 1999 issue.

—Richard Reinhardt is a San Francisco novelist and social historian.

M Edwin O. Reischauer is a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan.

Robert V. Remini served as Historian of the United State House of Representatives from 2005 until his retirement in 2010. Remini, winner of the 1984 National Book Award for Andrew Jackson: Volume 3, The Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (Harper & Row), currently is Professor of History Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

At age 70, Mildred Renaud took a creative-writing class in the adult-education program at the high school in Briarcliff Manor, New York, For class assignments she started writing an account of her childhood in Iowa, Nebraska, and the Dakotas at the beginning of this century. Her teacher, impressed with the vividness of her memory and the charm and authenticity of her presentation, suggested that she submit these memoirs to AMERICAN HERITAGE; an account of an austere childhood lived in a harsh land.

Edward J. Renehan, Jr.’s biography of the robber baron Jay Gould will be published by Perseus in 2005.

Andrés Reséndez is a noted Spanish and English author and historian who also serves as a Professor of History at the University of California-Davis. A native of Mexico City, Reséndez moved to the United States to begin his graduate studies at the University of Chicago. He specializes in Southwest American history and also studies the effect of state power and economic and linguistic conditions on ethnic and national identities.

Daniel Resneck is an Indiana businessman and a student of American folklore and social history.

James Reston Jr. was a historian, journalist, and novelist who authored 19 books and four plays across a wide variety of subjects. His historical writing includes titles such as Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, Warriors of God, Dogs of God, and Defenders of the Faith, and The Conviction of Richard Nixon: The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews, while his fiction and memoir writing includes titles like Fragile Innocence, To Defend, To Destroy, and The Knock at Midnight. His most recent work is The Nineteenth Hijacker: a novel of 9/11, a fictional account of the September 11 terrorist plane hijackings. 

Robert L. Reynolds joined the staff of American Heritage in 1958, starting as an Assistant Editor and by 1963 he was named Managing Editor. In 1970 he was hired by Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, NY, working primarily in their condensed book division. Mr. Reynolds was born on February 12, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1949, first majoring in Engineering and later switching to English. He started his career working for Today Magazine in Chicago and later for Jubilee, a Catholic themed magazine based in New York City. He died in 1981 after a long illness. He was 57 years old and had lived in Ossining, N.Y.

David S. Reynolds is a literary critic and historian who has written fifteen books about American history, literature and culture. These include Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, John Brown, Abolitionist, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America. Mr. Reynolds is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, John Hope Franklin Prize (Honorable Mention) and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Mark C. Reynolds is an author, reporter and editorial writer for the Southern Ulster Times, living in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife Kathen live in the Hudson Valley. They have two grown daughters, Amara and Heather.. Mr. Reynolds was born on May 30, 1953, in New York City, the son of longtime American Heritage editor Robert Reynolds.  He attended Catholic University in Washington D.C., and Berklee College of Music in Boston. After working in the music field for two decades, Reynolds turned his focus to writing and is presently a journalist and editorial writer for the Southern Ulster Times and the Kingston Times in Ulster County, New York. 

Sidney O. Reynolds, who operates a dude ranch near his birthplace in Cora, Wyoming, first learned about Washakie from his father, who knew the old chief, and later from Washakie’s last-surviving son, Charlie. Mr. Reynolds is now at work on a study of Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonneville and his western fur-trading adventures in the 1830’s.

Gary Reynolds, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Newark Museum, acted as guest curator for the current Wiles exhibition.

Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-three books including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which won a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, which was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in History; an investigation of the roots of private violence, Why They Kill; a personal memoir, A Hole in the World; a biography, John James Audubon; and four novels. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series.

On Trial was, of course, only the first of many successful plays by Elmer Rice. Among others have been The Adding Machine , Dream Girl, and Street Scene, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. At present he is working on a new play —“not far enough along to be talked about.”