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Steven D. Stark is a commentator on popular culture for National Public Radio and the Voice of America. This article is adapted from his new book, Glued to the Set: The 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Today , being published in May by the Free Press.

Peter Stark is a historian and adventure writer. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Astoria, along with The Last Empty Spaces, Last Breath, and At the Mercy of the River. He is a correspondent for Outside magazine, has written for Smithsonian and The New Yorker, and is a National Magazine Award nominee. He lives in Montana with his wife and children.

Roger Starr, a housing and urban affairs specialist, wrote “This Is The Way the World Ends” in AMERICAN HERITAGE , October, 1970.

A member of the Staff of the Columbia University Oral History project, Mr. Starr has worked on newspapers in Tennessee and Chicago and is author of Bohemian Brigade , a study of Civil War newspapers, published last fall.

Admiral James Stavridis is an author and retired four-star U.S. naval officer. He led the NATO Alliance in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, counter piracy, and cyber security. He also served as Commander of U.S. Southern Command, with responsibility for all military operations in Latin America from 2006 to 2009. He has earned more than 50 medals, including 28 from foreign nations in his 37-year military career.

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

Margery Wells Steer, who lives near Sherrodsville, Ohio, writes on American rural life. She has published numerous articles and a book, New Frontiers of Rural America .

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was director of the creative writing program at Stanford University. He is the author of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, Angle of Repose, The Spectacular Bird, a National Book Award winner, and Beyond the Hundreth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Stegner passed away at age 84 in 1993, and Stanford has honored him with a two-year creative writing fellowship called the Stegner Fellowship. 

Page Stegner wrote Winning the West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800-1899 .

Robert Stein is an editor, author, and film critic who formerly served as Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2005 he released Media Power: Who is Shaping Your Picture of the World?, which details his prediction of the 24/7 media cycle in the United States. 

Harry Stein, who graduated last year from the Columbia School of Journalism, is now a free-lance writer living in Pans.

Alfred Steinberg is a free-lance writer of history and reporter of the Washington scene. He collaborated with Senator Tom Connally on his autobiography and is currently writing a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Frank Stella is himself a renowned American artist; his most recent show opens this month at Manhattan’s Sperone Westwater Gallery.

Albert B. Stephenson, a retired mechanical engineer, drives a 1922 Model T around Whittier, California.

Sheldon M. Stern served as the historian at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston from 1977 to 1999. Stern has taught American and African-American history, developed the American History Project for High School Students in 1992, and written several books on the Cuban Missile Crisis, including Averting the Final Failure: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings, and The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Rudi Stern is a kinetic artist who is “concerned with neon’s potential as a medium of artistic expression.” This article was adapted from his book Let There Be Neon , which will be published soon by Harry N. Abrams.

Philip Van Doren Stern, a student of Lincoln and the Civil War, has contributed several articles to AMERICAN HERITAGE . This article is adapted from An End to Valor, soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin Co.

Sylvester K. Stevens (1904-1974) was Pennsylvania State Historian and, from 1956 to 1972, executive director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The author of many volumes on the Commonwealth’s history, his classic Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (1964) drew a famous court suit from the daughter of Henry Clay Frick, who charged that Stevens was too harsh on the industrialist; the court sustained Stevens’s judgment.

John Paul Stevens (1920-2019) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, nominated  by President Gerald Ford in 1975. Although Stevens was widely considered to be on the liberal side of the court, Ford praised Stevens in 2005, saying, "He is serving his nation well, with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns." Stevens was born on April 20, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois. He obtained his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago in 1941 and began work on his master's degree, but soon decided to join the United States Navy and served as a Lieutenant Commander from 1942-1945 during World War II.

Frank J. Stevens North Hollywood, Calif.

Col. Francis R. Stevens, Jr., is a retired Army officer currently under contract with the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Nikolai Stevenson, a retired New York sugar broker, is president of the Association for Macular Diseases.

The author, now enjoying the mixed blessings of social security, is a long-time movie addict who has had to resort to free-lance writing to support his habit. He is a contributing editor of The New Englander .

Janet Stevenson (1913-2009) was a novelist, a journalist, and a social activist throughout her life. Stevenson wrote primarily on civil rights, the women's and the peace movements, and the environment. In 1986, she was elected mayor of Hammond, Oregon. Stevenson was writing and still politically active well into her 90s.

A professor of English at the University of California, George R. Stewart is author of such best-selling novels as Storm and Fire and of the recent nonfiction success, U.S. 40 .

Doug Stewart, a writer living in Ipswich, Massachusetts, most recently published The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly (Da Capo Press 2010).

Linda McK. Stewart is a freelance writer.

David O. Stewart is a lawyer, public speaker, and bestselling author who has written both historical nonfiction and fiction across a range of subjects. His histories have explored the writing of the Constitution, the gifts of James Madison, the outrageous western expedition and treason trial of the mysterious Aaron Burr, and the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. His histories have won the Washington Writing Award for best book of the year, the History Prize of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the William H. Prescott Award of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. He has also contributed reporting and writing to various other outlets, including the Staten Island Advance, the American Bar Association Journal, the Washington Post, and History News Network.

Jamie Stiehm is a Washington-based journalist and public speaker who writes a syndicated column on national politics and history for Creators Syndicate. Her commentaries and op-eds have appeared in leading newspapers across the nation, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Francisco Chronicle.  She also wrote several essays for The New York Times' “Disunion” series on the Civil War, one of which was chosen for their hardbound collection, Disunion, published by Oxford University Press (2016). 

John R. Stilgoe, a recent winner of the Parkman Prize, is an associate professor at Harvard University and the author of Metropolitan Corridor .

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Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone joined the faculty in 1973, after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. 

Mr. Stone works largely from sources in Spanish archives, and the story of La Navidad has never before been comprehensively told in English. He is the author of two earlier AMERICAN HERITAGE articles: “ Columbus and Genocide ” (October, 1975) and “ The Man Behind Columbus ” (October, 1976).

Todd Stone is a watercolorist and oil painter whose work over the last 20 years has examined the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the ongoing reconstruction of downtown Manhattan. A native New Yorker, Stone moved to lower Manhattan in 1974. For many years, Stone’s work was primarily abstract, but always included in his practice were studio scenes, landscapes, and cityscapes, often featuring the Twin Towers as seen from his window. Located just six blocks from the Twin Towers, Stone’s home and studio were literally in their shadow. His “Witness” series has been exhibited at the National 9/11 Memorial Museum. He has been artist in residence at the World Trade Center since 2009. More information is at: Visit toddstonestudio.com/  

GARRY WHEELER STONE is retired as Regional Historian for the State Park Service and Historian for the Monmouth Battlefield State Park with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Oliver Stone is an acclaimed film director, tackling subjects ranging from the Vietnam War and American politics to musical biopics and crime dramas. He has received numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five Golden Globe Awards. Among the films Stone has directed are the Vietnam War dramas Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), receiving Academy Awards for Best Director for both films, the former of which also won Best Picture. He also directed Wall Street (1987) and JFK (1991).

Mr. Stone, our guest columnist in Bruce Cation’s space, is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Yale. He will become chairman of the Department of English at Emory University in Atlanta this autumn. He is the author of The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain’s Imagination , and is at work on a biography of De Forest.

Neil R. Stout is associate professor of history at the University of Vermont. He recently completed a book, The Royal Navy in America 1760-1775 , for the U.S. Naval Institute and is currently working on another thatfocusses on the year before the Revolution broke out—1774.

Rebecca Strand Johnson is an Ohio-based freelance writer, the author of Wyoming, Ohio (Arcadia Publishing, 2006).

Ernest C. Miller has been an oil man for thirty years, as well as an author of books on petroleum. He has written Tintypes in Oil , and North America’s First Oil Well . T. K. Stratton is an industrialist who has made the collection of historical photographs his avocation.

John Strausbaugh is a contributing editor at New York Press. The Drug-User , which he co-edited, is due from Blast Books in October.

David Strauss graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in 1973. He then spent two years at Magdalen College, Oxford, on the Marshall Scholarship and received a BPhil in politics from Oxford in 1975. In 1978, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was developments editor of the Law Review. He is the co-author of Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court.  Strauss has argued nineteen cases before the United States Supreme Court. In 1990, he served as Special Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. He is a member of the national Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society.

Fred Strebeigh teaches writing at Yale.

Richard Steven Street is a California historian, winner of the Phelan Award for Literature, who is currently completing a definitive history of California farm workers.

Shirley Streshinsky’s article on Midway Island appeared in the April 2001 issue.