Authors

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

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.

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 .

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

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. After graduating from Vassar College in New York, Lucky pursued a career in journalism, covering social events in Washington D.C. She was invited to take the position of Chief of Protocol by Nancy Reagan and Mike Deaver after showcasing her talent as a reporter. As Chief of Protocol, Lucky organized over 1,000 visits of world leaders to the United States and directed the restoration of Blair House, the President’s guest house. She is also author of Keeper of the Gate, a behind-the-scenes look at the Reagan White House.  

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.

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 .

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).

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).

Nancy Wilson Ross, the author of several distinguished novels, has also written a study of feminine pioneers of the 1800’s, Westward the Women, and a historical and sociological study of the Pacific Northwest, Farthest Reach .

Clinton Rossiter, professor of government at Cornell, is serving as director of studies in American Communism sponsored by the Fund for the Republic. He is author of Seedtime of the Republic , 1953, and Conservatism in America , published last spring.

Paul Rosta is a free-lance writer who lives in Los Angeles. He writes frequently about various aspects of American history and culture.

Mark Rotella, the author of Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria , is at work on a book on the great Italian-American pop singers.

David J. Rothman is a member of the history jacuity at Columbia University and author of The Discovery of the Asylum : Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Little, Brown, 1971).

Barbara Rotunda (1942-2005) was an associate professor of English at the University of Albany and a pioneering educator and scholar.  She was educated at Cornell and Syracuse Universities and started one of the countries first university writing workshops.  Rotundo was widely respected for her work on 19th century Boston and historical studies of graveyards and gravestones.  Her work has appeared in many publications including American Heritage.  

Sharon Roualet is the School Librarian at Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, IN.

John Rousmaniere, the author of The Annapolis Book of Seamanship and several works on ocean racing and the America’s Cup, is currently writing an illustrated history of Columbia University.

Richard Halworth Rovere often reports from Washington in his capacity as a staff writer for The New Yorker . Among his books are Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years and The American Establishment .

Edward Leon Rowny (April 3, 1917 – December 17, 2017) was a U.S. Army Lieutenant General. He was a commanding officer in World War II and Korea, a military advisor to five U.S. presidents and a negotiator on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)

Alfred Leslie Rowse(1903 – 1997), known professionally as A. L. Rowse and to his friends and family as Leslie, was a prolific Cornish historian. He is perhaps best known for his poetry about Cornwall and his work on Elizabethan England. Rowse wrote some 100 books, including the bestseller, the autobiographical A Cornish Childhood, that sold nearly half a million copies worldwide. Rowse was also famous for his research on Shakespeare and his theories on the bard;s sexuality.

Frank Rowsome, Jr., the author of this cheerful bit of Americana, is now head of the Technical Publications section of NASA. The Verse by the Side of the Road is adapted from a book of the same title recently published by the Stephen Greene Press. COPYRIGHT © 1965 BY FRANK ROWSOME, JR.

Ephraim Rubenstein is an artist and an instructor in drawing at the Art Students League of New York.

Hughes Rudd, whose service in the “Maytag Messerschmitt” earned him a Silver Star, six air medals, and a number of other awards, has been a radio and television correspondent for both CBS News and, currently, ABC News. He also is the author of My Escape From the CIA (And Other Improbable Events) , published in 1966.

Rudin is the publisher of The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher whose mission is to foster greater appreciation and pride in America’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Mr. Rudin writes on American history, literature, music, and popular culture for American Heritage and Raritan magazines. He created, hosts, and introduces the ongoing program of readings “Great New York Writers in Great New York Places.” He has directed several NEH-funded publishing and national public programming initiatives, among them the Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial (2004) and Lincoln in American Memory: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Our Sixteenth President (2009). He serves on the Board of Directors of The Great Books Foundation and The New York Festival of Song. Mr.

Timothy C. Ruse is an independent historian and the Director of Georgetown Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center, who also wrote We Volunteered: A Biography of Carl Robert Ruse, Survivor of the Bataan Death March and Prisoner of the Japanese 1942-1945 (Timothy C. Ruse, 2011).

Preston Russell, a pathologist in Savannah, Georgia, is completing a book about the personal relationship between Lafayette and Washington.

Francis Russell, a frequent contributor, is the author of Adams: An American Dynasty , a book recently published by American Heritage.

Franklin Russell is a free-lance writer who frequently reports on ecological matters. He is currently working on a book dealing with catastrophes of natural history that have occurred throughout the world.

John Russell, an art critic for The New York Times , is the author of many books about art and artists.

In 1866 a remarkable book appeared, The Atlantic Telegraph , by William Howard Russell, one of the most eminent newspaper correspondents of his day. He had covered both the Crimean War and the American Civil War for the London Times , and he was the only reporter on board the Great Eastern during the cable-laying. Russell’s book is illustrated with paintings by the artist Robert Dudley, who was also on board. On the following pages are reproduced a selection of the illustrations Dudley prepared for Russell’s narrative.

For over twenty years, Gus Russo has been an investigative reporter, author of six non-fiction books, and writer and/or producer of many national and international documentaries for major networks. His books have received Book of the Month Club and History Book Club Featured Selections, three have been optioned for films, and one, The Outfit was a Pulitzer nominee. His October 2008 book, Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder," was named Winner of the 2008 History Prize by the New York Book Festival. In April 2011, his memoir Boomer Days was published.

Darrett B. Rutman, assistant professor of Early American History at the University of Minnesota, is currently at work on a book about Boston during John Winthrop’s lifetime. For further reading: The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop , by Edmund S. Morgan (Little, Brown, 1958).