Authors

Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics series published by National Geographic Society Press, and the books editor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Formerly the book critic at Men’s Journal, Brandt has written for The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, and many other magazines,. He is the author of The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage and The South Pole: A Narrative History of the Exploration of Antarctica. Brandt lives in Sag Harbor, New York.  

Nat Brandt, former Managing Editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE , is a free-lance writer who also teaches journalism at St. John’s University, New York.

James Branscome, a freelance who is a native of the TVA area, has long covered the agency for regional and national publications.

Peter Braunstein’s article on the career of disco from its French Resistance wellsprings ran in the November 1999 issue. He is co-editor of Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s , which is being published by Routledge this fall.

Robert A. Brawer is the author of Fictions of Business: Insights on Management From Great Literature .

Ruth and Edward Brecher are a husband-and-wife team of free-lance writers who live in West Cornwall, Connecticut; their articles have appeared in many national magazines. Mrs. Brecher became interested in Dighton Rock a number of years ago while doing graduate work at Harvard.

T.H. Breen is a professor of American History at the University of Vermont and an Early American historian interested in the history of political thought, material culture, and cultural anthropology.

Edgar Breintenbach is chief of the Prints and Photographs division of the Library of Congress.

Mark R. Brewer U.S. history teacher Williamstown Middle School Williamstown, N.J.

Stephen Breyer is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton (D) to fill the seat left vacant by Harry Blackmun and was sworn in on August 3, 1994. Breyer began his legal career clerking for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg. He held several government attorney roles, including assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and the chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter (D) nominated Breyer to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. He served on the court from 1980 to 1994 and was chief judge in his final four years there.

Brooks T. Brierley is the author of car-history books available at bookstores and by mail from Motorbooks. His latest, Magic Motors 1930 , is out this month.

—Steven Brill was the founder of Court TV and is chairman and CEO of Brill’s Content .

The author is a correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company.

Douglas Brinkley, a distinguished professor of history at Rice University and Contributing Editor of American Heritage, has written more than 20 books, most recently The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Harper 2009) and The Reagan Diaries (HarperCollins 2007). Brinkley earned his B.A from Ohio State University University in 1982, and his Ph.D. from Georgetown University in 1989.

In a forthcoming book John Malcolm Brinnin, a poet and professor of English at Boston University, surveys in lively and meticulous detail the history of passenger travel across the Atlantic. The Sway of the Grand Saloon , from which these two selections are taken, will be published later this month by Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press. COPYRIGHT © BY JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN

After Ins escape from Charleston, William Merrick Bristol! resumed his teaching career, first in Illinois, then in Milwaukee. In 1863 he enlisted in the ijth Battery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, rising to the rank of first lieutenant by the end of the war. Most of his time in the Army was spent as an ordnance officer in New Orleans. Following the Civil War he attended Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and then took on a succession of teaching jobs; he was a professor of Latin at Ripon College in Wisconsin, Atlanta University in Georgia, and Yankton College in South Dakota. He retired from teaching in 1886 to work as an accountant in a real-estate and brokerage firm in Minneapolis. Mrs.

Copyright, 1955, by William H. Reams, Jr., and Beveilcy L. Britton ©. William H. Kearns, Jr., has flown Antarctic missions for the Navy, and in 1946-47 accompanied the Byrd expedition. Beverley L. Britton, a former newspaperman, is a naval commander, and has been a public information officer with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. They are the authors of the recent book, The Silent Continent .

Fawn McKay Brodie (1915 – 1981) was a biographer largely known for her work on Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974) and No Man Knows My History( 1945) about Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter-day Saint movement. Ms. Brodie was also one of the first female professors of History at UCLA.

— John Steele Gordon , and economic history commentator and freelance writer, is author most recently of An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (HarperCollins 2004).

Sir Denis William Brogan (1900-1974), was a Scottish author and historian. His interest in the United States began in 1933 with The American Political System Other works include America in the Modern World,(1960) American Aspects,(1964) Worlds in Conflict,(1967) France under the Republic (1974).In 1963, he received a knighthood for his contributions.

Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, where he hosted all three of the network's major shows, including The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. He currently serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets. Brokaw is also the author of several books on American history and society, including the The Greatest Generation (1998). In 2014 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor at the National Review and is well-known for his biographies of American founding fathers, including George Washington on Leadership, and What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers. President George W. Bush awarded Brookhiser the National Humanities Medal in 2008.

Stewart and Natalie Brooks have written more than forty books together on medical science including, McBurney’s Point: Man Against His Appendix (A. S. Barnes, 1969).

John Brooks is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of many books. His latest, published in 1981, is Showing Off in America .

Tom Brooks has held various positions with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. He is now on the staff of Business Week .

Richard Brophy is an actor and a writer. Jigsaw Puzzles: An Illustrated History and Price Guide , by Anne D. Williams, was recently published by Wallace-Home-stead Book Company.

—Norman Brosterman is an authority on twentieth-century folk art and the author of Inventing Kindergarten .

In 1949 Mr. Broun, after several years as a columnist and sports writer, became an actor—on Broadway and off, on the straw-hat circuit, and in TV and radio. In 1940 he edited a collection of his father’s columns, and last year he wrote a book on the theatre entitled A Studied Madness .

Norman Brouwer is ship historian for the South Street Seaport Museum of New York. A television special on the Cape Horn passage will be aired sometime this summer.

Frances Williams Browin, a former editor with magazines and a publishing house, is the author of a number of books for young people, including Big Bridge to Brooklyn: The Roebling Story , just published.

Richard C. Brown is professor of history at the State University College at Buffalo, New York. He is currently at work on a joint biography tentatively entitled Mark Sullivan and Herbert Hoover: The Story of a Friendship .

—David Brown is a producer of many movies, including The Sting and Jaws.

Martha C. Brown is a free-lance writer.

The author, Dr. Richard D. Brown, is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. Earlier versions of this essay were delivered at the Connecticut Historical Society and at a conference on Massachusetts history at Westfield State College.

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (1908 – 002) was an American novelist, historian, and librarian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details the history of American expansionism from the point of view of the Native Americans. As a part-time writer, Brown published nine books, three fiction and six nonfiction, by the end of the 1950s. During the 1960s, he completed eight more including The Galvanized Yankees, which Brown described as requiring more research than any of his other books, and The Year of the Century: 1876, which he described as his personal favorite.

Joseph E. Brown is a freelance writer who lives in Rockport, Maine.

Urilla’s sorry tale is part of a long, long poem published in 1833 by one of the founding fathers of American dentistry. It was brought to our attention by John W. Howard of the dental-school faculty at West Virginia University.

Kathryn Cramer Brownell, who received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, is associate professor of history at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where she teaches courses in 20th century American history. Before joining the Perdue faculty, she taught in the history department at Boston University, where she received her PhD.  Her book, Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life, (2014), explores the institutionalization of Hollywood in American politics.   Brownell is now working on a  book that examines the rise of cable and the influence of 24-hour news on American political life from the 1970s through the 1990s. She is also co-editor of the “Made By History” column of The Washington Post.

Kevin Brownlow’s books on the movies include The Parade’s Gone By and Hollywood: The Pioneers .

A former editor in chief of Texas Monthly magazine, William Broyles, Jr., is now a free-lance writer in New York. These pictures were collected for a research project funded by the Du Pont Company and Conoco. Most of them appear in Historic Texas: A Photographic Portrait , edited by Martha A. Sandweiss, published in January by Texas Monthly Press.

Robert Vance Bruce (1923 – 2008), an American historian, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876. He later received his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University, where he became a professor. He also taught at the University of Bridgeport, Lawrence Academy at Groton, University of Wisconsin and was a lecturer at the Fortenbaugh Lecture at Gettysburg College.

James S. Brust, M.D., is a psychiatrist in San Pedro, California, and a long-time collector of prints and photographs.

Alison Bryant is a reporter for the Montgomery Gazette and writes for The Washington Post. She has a journalism degree from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.