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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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

Glynne Robinson is a contributing editor and the co-publisher of the Lakeville Journal , in Lakeville, Connecticut, and the Millerton News , Millerton, New York.

This article has been adapted from Phyllis C. Robinson’s forthcoming book Willa: The Life of Willa Cather , which will be published in August by Doubleday & Co., Inc.

Fred Rodell (1907 – 1980) was an American law professor most famous for his critiques of the U.S. legal profession. In 1939, he wrote the book Woe Unto You, Lawyers!He was one of the leading proponents of the “legal realism” approach and railed against overly abstract and theoretical legal arguments. A professor at Yale Law School for more than forty years, Rodell was described in 1980 as the "bad boy of American legal academia."

Stephen W. Stathis is an analyst in American history on the staff of the Library of Congress; Lee Roderick is Washington correspondent for a chain of newspapers located primarily in the western states.

Jennifer Rodibaugh is an editor at Hark! New Era Publishing. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. She is also a legal writer and editor in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served four years as assistant editor of the national quarterly magazine American Heritage for which she wrote numerous articles including “Funding the Civil War,” “When Donkey & Elephant First Clashed,” and “Happy Anniversary, Central Park!”

Madeline Rogers is the editor of Seaport: New York’s History Magazine , published by the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City.

Lynne Rogers, a writer and lecturer, is co-author with Mari L. Henry of How to Be a Working Actor (M. Evans & Co.).

Agnes Rogers, associate editor of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club, is the author of Women Are Here to Stay, From Man to Machine , and, with her late husband, Frederick Lewis Allen, of The American Procession and I Remember Distinctly .

Charles G. Bolté is editor of The American Oxonian , published by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars; Neu Rolde was formerly majority leader of the Maine House of Representatives. Both writers live in Maine.

A Louisville, Kentucky, numismatist, Delma Romines is the author of a book on hobo nickels.

James P. Ronda, H.G. Barnard Professor of West American History at the University of Tulsa, has written several books about the Lewis and Clark expedition, most notably Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. A past President of the Western History Association, Ronda has also worked as a on-camera adviser for C-SPAN, BBC, and PBS, and was recently named to serve on the Advisory Committee of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello.  

Art Ronnie’s article is adapted from his biography of an early barnstormer, Locklear: The Man Who Walked on Wings , which will be published by A. S. Barnes & Company this fall.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers from Cowboys and Kings: Three Great Letters by Theodore Roosevelt, Elting E. Morison, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright, 1951, 1954, by The President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Archibald "Archie" Bullock Roosevelt, Jr. (1918-1990), the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, was a career intelligence officer, serving with the Army in North Africa and the Middle East in World War II before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947. A Middle East expert, Roosevelt spoke and understood nearly 20 languages and served as CIA station chief in Istanbul, Madrid, and London before retiring in 1974. He worked as an executive for Chase Manhattan before joining his wife Selwa Roosevelt in her appointment as the Chief of Protocol for the State Department under President Ronald Reagan.

Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt is best known for her role as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1982 to 1989. She also served as the longtime Chairman of the Blair House Foundation, where she led the major restoration and refurnishing of the historic home that functions as the President's guesthouse. After graduating from Vassar College in New York, Mrs. Roosevelt pursued a career in journalism and wrote a column "Diplomatically Speaking" for the Washington Star. She covered the White House, State Department, embassies, and historic homes, and was able to get the first interview with Jacqueline Kennedy after her marriage to Jack. In 1982, Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to take the position of Chief of Protocol by Nancy Reagan and Mike Deaver. She organized over 1,000 visits of world leaders to the United States.

David J. Rose is a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic, and a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Rosen's  latest book, for the American Presidents Series, is William Howard Taft. His other books include: Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet; The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, the best-selling companion book to the award-winning PBS series; The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America; The Naked Crowd: Freedom and Security in an Anxious Age; and The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America. Professor Rosen is coeditor, with Benjamin Wittes, of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change.

Marvin and Dorothy Rosenberg wrote “ The Dirtiest Election ,” an article about the presidential campaign of 1884, in the August, 1962, AMERICAN HERITAGE . Mr, Rosenberg teaches dramatic art at the University of California, Berkeley. For further reading: The Last Days of the Sioux Nation , by Robert M. Utley (Yale University Press, 1963); Sitting Bull , by Stanley Vestal (University of Oklahoma Press, 1956).

Charles E. Rosenberg is a professor in the History of Science department at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books on the history of medicine and science, including Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago, 1962, new edition, 1987); The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age (Chicago, 1968); No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1976, new and expanded edition, 1997);  and The Care of Strangers. He has also co-authored or edited another half-dozen books and is currently at work on a history of conceptions of disease during the past two centuries.

Elliot Rosenberg co-authored Louis Eisenstein’s memoir of Lower East Side politics, A Stripe of Tammany’s Tiger .

Linda Rosenkrantz writes a syndicated column about antiques and collectibles.

S. P. Rosenvold Ellicott City, Md.

John F. Ross was the Executive Editor of American Heritage and Invention & Technology magazines and a Senior Editor of Smithsonian magazine before that. On assignment, he has chased scorpions in Baja, dived 3,000 feet underwater in the Galapagos, dogsledded with the Polar Inuit in Greenland, lived with the Khanty reindeer herders in Siberia, and launched the most northern canoe trip in the Canadian Arctic. He has published more than 200 articles and spoken at the Explorers Club of New York, the Smithsonian Institution, NASA's Ames Research Center, and BMW's Herbert Quandt Foundation. Ross is the author of War on the Run, a definitive biography of Robert Rogers, and The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life (Perseus Books).