Authors

James B. Trefethen is director of publications for the Wildlife Management Institute in Washmgon, D.C., and author of Crusade for Wildlife , a history of wildlife conservation published by the Boone and Crockett Club in 1961.

Adm. Richard H. Truly is a former fighter pilot and astronaut. As the eighth Administrator of NASA from 1989 to 1992, he was the first former astronaut to head the space agency. After leaving NASA, Truly led the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1992 to 1997, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory from 1997 to 2005

Lucian King Truscott IV is a former staff writer for The Village Voice, screenwriter, and author of several military-themed novels including Dress Gray, which was adapted into a 1986 television film. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he followed the 101st Airborne Division at the beginning of the Iraq War and wrote a series of articles.  He publishes the Lucian Truscott Newsletter on Substack and also writes a column for Salon.com. He can be followed on Facebook at The Rabbit Hole and on Twitter @LucianKTruscott.

Barbara Tuchman (1912 – 1989) was an American historian and author who first became known for her best-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude to and first month of World War I, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1963. She won a second Pulitzer for Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1972).    

Edwin S. Redkey, who teaches history at the State University of New York, College at Purchase, has written several books on Afro-American history and is currently preparing a biography of Henry M. Turner.

Fitzhugh Turner, a former associate editor of U.S. News & World Report , is currently publisher of the weekly Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg, Virginia. He had summer jobs in the snowsheds before working as a reporter in Sacramento, California, where his father was division engineer for the Southern Pacific.

Lynn W. Turner is associate professor of American history at Indiana University. He is editor of The Historian , published by Phi Alpha Theta, national history honor society.

Frederick Turner, a frequent contributor, is the author of three books, among them Remembering Song: Encounters With the New Orleans Jazz Tradition , to be issued by Viking in the spring of this year. He is currently working on a biography of John Muir.

Peter Tuttle is writing a travel book about the American Southwest.

Dennis Tuttle is a reporter, photographer, and consultant for content development, books, web, social media and photography. He is a North Carolina native and graduate of the University of Cincinnati. Dennis is also a serious and much admired barbecuist.

Larry Tye is an author and journalist known for his biographies of notable American figures, including Edward Bernays Satchel Paige, Robert F. Kennedy, and Joseph McCarthy. His most recent book is Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Joe McCarthy, in which he used newly declassified archival materials to reconsider the legacy of the Red-hunting senator. From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a reporter at The Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine.

Jules Tygiel was a preeminent historian of American baseball and longtime professor of history at San Francisco State University.  His book Baseball’s Greatest Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy won a number of awards including a Robert Kennedy Book Award. Prof. Tygiel’s articles on baseball were collected and expanded in Past Time: Baseball as History (2000) and Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History (2002).    

William Tyrrell was a New York historian, Contributing Editor of American Heritage, and author of We New Yorkers: History and Government of the Empire State.

Stewart L. Udall (1920-2010) served as the 37th Secretary of the Interior under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson from 1961 to 1969. Prior to that, Udall flew missions over Europe in the Army Air Corps during World War II and served as a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. Udall and his younger brother, Mo, are remembered for their public service and dedication to environmental and civil rights issues.

Frank Uhlig, Jr., is special projects editor at the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland. His articles on naval matters have been published in such magazines as Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings . For farther reading: The Influence of Seapower Upon History , by Alfred Thayer Mahan (Hill and Wang, 1957); Admirals of the American Empire , by Richard S. West, Jr. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1948); and From Midshipman to Rear Admiral , by Bradley A. Fiske (Century, 1919).

Owen Ulph teaches history and humanities at Reed College when he is not hauling feed to cows and horses on his Nevada ranch.

Harlow Giles Unger is a veteran journalist, broadcaster, educator, and historian and was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in American History at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Unger is the author of twenty-six books, including more than a dozen biographies of America’s Founding Fathers—among them Lafayette, Patrick Henry, John Quincy Adams, James Monroe, John Marshall, Richard Henry Lee, and Dr. Benjamin Rush. His most recent book is Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence.

A former publisher for Time and Newsweek, Mark K. Updegrove is a noted author and historian who wrote Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, and Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House, winning Foreward Magazine's Silver "Book of the Year" award for the latter.

Memories of the Ford Administration will be published this month by Knopf. John Updike’s essay on mortuary photography ran in our May/June issue.

Robert M. Utley is a writer and historian of the American West who served as the chief historian of the National Park Service. Utley has written over a dozen books on the West, including the classic American Heritage History of the Indian Wars. Utley also authored Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life and Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers. In 2004 University of Oklahoma Press released his memoirs, titled Custer and Me: A Historian's Memoir.

J. E. Vacha is a retired high school and college teacher who lives in Ohio.

Mr. Vaill is assistant secretary of Yale University and a habitual reader of AMERICAN HERITAGE .

COPYRIGHT © 1956 BY ALAN VALENTINE

Frederic F. Van de Water, who lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, is the author of many books. This article is based on his The Captain Called It Mutiny , published by Washburn.

JENNIFER VAN HORN is assistant professor of art history and history at the University of Delaware and specializes in early American visual and material culture. 

Charles B. van Pelt is a major m the Air Force; he formerly taught history at the University of Alaska. For further reading: My Head and My Heart , by Helen Duprey Bullock (C. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1945).

William J. vanden Heuvel, who served as deputy U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981, is president of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and a lawyer and investment banker in New York.

Robert L. Vargas is a free-lance writer living in El Paso, Texas, Roth the author and the editors of AMERICAN HERITAGE wish to thank C. Bradford Milchell, former Director of Information for the American Merchant Marine Institute, for his technical advice and editorial assistance in the preparation of the article. For further rending: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 , by Samuel Eliot Morison (Little, Brown, 1947); Sea War: The Story of the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II , by Felix Riesenberg, Jr. (Rinehart, 1956); “The Story of the Stephen Hopkins,” by John Bunker, in U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings , November, 1954.

Elizabeth R. Varon is a historian and a professor of American History at the University of Virginia. She previously was a professor at the University of Oxford, Wellesley College and Temple University, and co-director of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. A specialist in the Civil War era and 19th-century South, Varon is the author of six books including Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South, Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War, Disunion!: and Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy. Varon graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A.,1985), and has a Ph.D. from Yale University.

Alden Vaughan is an Affiliate Professor at Clark University. In 1994, he became a Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, where he taught for over three decades. His research examines British America in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, especially the interaction of Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. Selected publications include: New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675, Roots of American Racism: Essays on the Colonial Experience Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1470-1776.

COPYRIGHT 1957 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS

This article was adapted from Screening History , published this month by Harvard University Press and based on a series of talks Gore Vidal gave as a participant in Harvard’s William E. Massey Sr. Lectures.

Thomas Viets worked at National Security Agency. He lives in Millersville, Maryland.

Geraldine Speez Vigoda (1928-2016) was born in Chicago and moved with her family to the Jackson Heights (New York City) area, where she lived most of her life. Mrs. Vigoda was a history buff and enjoyed cultural events including dance and theatre.

Captain Alan Villiers (1903 – 1982) was an author, photographer, lecturer and Master Mariner. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Villiers first went to sea at age 15 and served as one of the last captains of a commercial square-riggers, a grain ship out of Australia.  He captained the "Mayflower II" during her 1957 commemorative voyage and the "Joseph Conrad", which is now preserved at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.  Villiers was the author of 25 books, including Men, Ships and the Sea, Falmouth for Orders and The Way of a Ship. He also wrote frequently for National Geographic.

Patricia Volk is the author of the memoir Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family .

Victor W. von Hagen, a resident of Connecticut, is well-known for his explorations in Central and South America; this article was written while he prepared his forthcoming book, The Highway of the Sun . Among his other books are Herman Melville’s Enchanted Islands and Maya Explorer: The Life of John Lloyd Stephens .

Richard Clement Wade (1921 – 2008) was an American urban studies professor and an advisor to many Democratic politicians and candidates, including Robert F. Kennedy. His unique approach to social science studies put an emphasis on cities. His book, The Urban Frontier (1959), challenged Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis, asserting that the catalysts for western expansion were the western cities like Pittsburgh, Louisville and Cincinnati, not the pioneer farmers. Other books include: Slavery in the Cities: The South, 1820-1860 (1964), Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (1973) (with Harold Mayer) Photo: Larry C. Morris / New York Times

William W. Wade is at present deputy director of the Voice of America’s Munich Program Center. He is a former foreign correspondent and associate editor of Foreign Policy Association publications. For further reading: Great Britain and the American Civil War , by Ephraim Douglass Adams (Longmans, Green, 1925); The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe , by James D. Bulloch (Thomas Yoseloff, 1959).

Steven Wagner is Professor of History and former head of the Social Science Department at Missouri Southern State University. He teaches a variety of courses in twentieth-century United States history, and in 2012 was honored as Missouri Southern's "Outstanding Teacher" by the Missouri Southern Foundation. Wagner is the author of Eisenhower for Our Time, Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way, and A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He received his PhD in history from Purdue University in 1999.