Authors

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.

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.

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. 

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.”

T.C. Richardson was a Texas historian and the author of East Texas, It's History and It's Makers, Vol. 1.

Donna Richardson, an associate professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, is the author of many articles on romantic poetry, especially that of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and of a book on teaching poetry: Visual Paraphrasing of Poetry (University Press of America).

Edgar P. Richardson has been director of two noted museums, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the H. F. du Pont Winterthur Museum, and is the author of many books on American and European art. Actire in the affairs oj many institutions, he is a resident of Philadelphia and a member of the American Philosophical Society (like Thomas Say, at left). He became interested in David J. Kennedy‘s work as a member of the Council of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, owners of the collection.

Elinor Richey, author of several books on period architecture, lives in Berkeley, California. This article is adapted from her forthcoming book on noted American women.

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A student at Harvard Law School, Roberts S. Rifkind is the author of a previos article in AMERICAN HETITAGE . “The Colonel’s Dream of Power,” a study of Edward House’s little-remembered venture into fiction, Philip Dru.

Mr. Riggan, affiliated with the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, has been a film buff ever since the day he auditioned for M.G.M. as a boy soprano. He didn’t get the role.

Lorissa Reinhart is a writer specializing in the intersection of women, art, and conflict. Her first biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2023. Her writing has also appeared in Hyperallergic, Perfect Strangers, and Narratively, among other publications. Reinhart holds an MA from NYU in Experimental Humanities and a BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. She lives with her husband and two sons in Santa Barbara, California.

Steven Rinella is a freelance writer living in Missoula, Montana.

Paul E. Rink was for some years a ship’s engineer and later was employed by the State Department in Panama. He is currently a writer of television documentaries and lives in Monterey, California. For further reading: Yankee Stargazer , by Robert Elton Berry (McGraw-Hill, 1941); Merchant Sail , by William Armstrong Fairburn (Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, Center Lovell, Maine, 1945-55); “Nathaniel Bowditch,” by Harold Bowditch, The American Neptune , April, 1945.

Carol E. Rinzler, an attorney with the New York law firm of Rembar & Curtis, is a collector of the work of early twentieth-century illustrators.

Delia M. Rios has been a reporter for nearly 25 years, and has worked for the San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Morning News and Newhouse News Service, the national wire service for Newhouse Newspapers. 

John W. Ripley, the publication director of the Shawnee County (Kansas) Historical Society, has been collecting song slides for twenty years.

Charles R. Ritcheson, now Lovell Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Southern California, served as Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in London during the Bicentennial of the American Revolution.

Peggy Robbins’s article on the Wesleys in Georgia ran in the April/May 1984 issue of American Heritage.

David Roberts is the author of seventeen books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. In addition to writing for American Heritage, he has written for National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Randy Roberts is a professor of history at Purdue University and has written nearly 30 books about athletes, celebrities and historical figures.  Since the 1970s, Roberts has made more than 50 appearances as a historical consultant for television documentaries and films, working for the History Channel, ESPN Classic, BBC, E!TV, HBO, PBS and on the ABC, CBS and NBC networks. By speaking in sound bites, boiling down segments of history and keeping it interesting and meaningful, Roberts helps the entertainment industry portray history correctly. Among his consulting experiences, Roberts contributed to two Emmy-winning documentaries -- "10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America" and "Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson." Also, he appears as a reporter in "Rocky Balboa" and can be seen as an extra in the final fight sequence.

Mr. Roberts, who teaches history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, is currently writing a book about the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

The late Archie Robcrtson, a frequent and delightful contributor to both AMERICAN HERITAGE and HORIZON, was in recent years an editor of The Lamp. He was the author of a number of books, of which Slow Train to Yesterday is a hard-to-find classic, the finest book on American railroads. For further reading: Staten Island and Its People, by Charles William Leng and William T. Davis (5 vols., Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1930-33).

Deane Robertson, a former newsman, teaches journalism at California State University, Sacramento. Peggy Robertson is a part-time researcher and editor.

Ray Robinson’s books include Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time .

Dr. Robinson is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.