Authors

Hugh Thomas, Professor of History at the University of Reading, England, is the author of Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom (Harper & Row, 1971) and The Spanish Civil War (Harper & Row, 1977).

Mr. Thomas is a well-known writer whose latest book is Sam Ward: King of the Lobby . The present article is adapted from his history of Delmonico’s famous New York restaurant, to be published by Houghton Mifflin later this year. For further reading: William Jay Gaynor , by Mortimer Smith (Henry Regnery, 1951).

Benjamin P. Thomas was the author of the acclaimed Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (New York, 1952). His 1934 book, Lincoln’s New Salem, remains a classic study of the frontier community that was the setting for Lincoln’s formative years.

Bob Thompson is a former Washington Post journalist and the author of two books on American history. His first, Born on a Mountaintop, is an on-the-road exploration of the real and legendary Davy Crockett. His latest book is Revolutionary Roads, which takes readers on a tour of crucial sites of the American Revolution, both where independence was won as well as where it might have been lost. Previously, Thompson was a longtime feature writer for the Washington Post and the editor of its Sunday magazine. He has two grown daughters and lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Deborah Johnson.

Betty Flanders Thomson is associate professor of botany at Connecticut College in New London and is the author of The Changing Face of New England , which will soon be published by The Macmillan Company.

David Thomson is the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood .

James Thomson, a member of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University, lectures on history there but is likely to be more familiar to readers as one of the experts who appeared on the ABC-TV network to furnish commentary during President Nixon’s trip to China.

John Thorn is the author of several books, among them three on baseball; The Invisible Game will be published by Doubleday next year.

Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr., one of the founders of this magazine and now a contributing editor, is at work on a book about the Atlantic coast.

Joseph Jacobs Thorndike (1913 – 2005) was Managing Editor of Life for three years in the late 1940s, and a co-founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines. In June 1934, he started work at Time magazine, writing People, Miscellany and Education articles. He was asked by Henry Luce to join a group planning a new picture magazine, and when Life debuted in 1936, Thorndike, though only 23, was an associate editor of the magazine. Circulation at American Heritage rose to over 300,000. American Heritage sold to McGraw-Hill in 1970, to Forbes in 1986, and to Edwin S. Grosvenor, in 2007. In his early seventies, Thorndike served for two years as head of The American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, a group of writers and scholars who are polled on acceptable English usage.

Tamara Thornton teaches nineteenth-century American history at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Willis Thornton (1900-1965) was a journalist, historian, and editor. He joined Scripps-Howard in 1921, working for the CLEVELAND PRESS and then the Washington Daily News, where he became city editor. In 1930 he moved to the Scripps-Howard feature service, Newspaper Enterprise Assoc., working both in the New York office as bureau manager and in the Cleveland office as writer and editor. During WORLD WAR II he enlisted in the Army as a private, serving with a prisoner of war interrogation unit in Europe and returning as a captain. He earned a master's in history from Western Reserve and lectured there in journalism and American history. Among Thornton's books were The Third Term Issue (1939), Almanac for Americans (1941), Fable, Fact and History (1957), and The Liberation of Paris (1962).

John Tidwell, a writer and television producer, lives in Maryland.

Alan M. Tigay, who writes frequently about Brazil and trans-American immigration, is the editor of Hadassah Magazine.

Bernard Timberg is the author of Television Talk: A History of TV Talk Shows .

George B. Tindall, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, is the author of South Carolina Negroes, 1877–1900 . He is now working on The Emergence of the New South, 1913–1946 , last of the ten-volume A History of the South (Louisiana State University Press). For further reading: The Legendary Mizners , by Alva Johnston (Farrar, Straus, 1953); Florida’s Golden Sands , by A. J. and Kathryn Abbey Hanna (Bobbs-Merrill, 1950).

As a small boy, A. L. Todd met the hero of this article, who died in 1935 as a retired major general. Mr. Todd published Abandoned: The Story of The Greely Arctic Expedition 1881-1884 (McGraw-Hil, 1961), based on the General’s unpublished letters, diaries, and papers.

John Toland, a free-lance writer who lives in Red Bank, New Jersey, is the author of Ships in the Sky: The Story of the Great Dirigibles .

Robert C. Toll is the author of Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 1974) and On With the Show!: The First Century of Show Business in America (Oxford University Press, 1976). Much of the material in this article is adapted from those two books.

A 1929 graduate of Annapolis, Admiral Tolley (1908—2000) was assistant naval attaché in Moscow from 1942 to 1944. He was the author of books on the history of the US Navy, including Yangtze Patrol, Cruise of the Lanikai, Caviar and Commissars: The Experiences of a U.S. Naval Officer in Stalin's Russia (2003).

—Jean K. Tool, a retired advertising executive, lives in Colorado.

Arthur Bernon Tourtellot (1913-1977) was an editor, author, and television producer who wrote and developed many projects on political and military history including William Diamond’s Drum: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (Doubleday, 1959). For further reading: The Story of the Declaration of Independence , by Dumas Malone (Oxford University Press, 1954); Four Days in July , by Cornel A. Lengyel (Doubleday, 1958).

Mr. Tourtellot’s many books include William Diamond’s Drum: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (Doubleday, 1959) and Lexington and Concord (Norton, 1963). His principal sources for this article were memoirs written by Jersey ex-prisoners and published in the nineteenth century.

This article is a slightly modified excerpt from a speech delivered before the Civil War Round Table of Chicago on October 17, 1952, by William H. Townsend of Lexington, lawyer and author of Lincoln, the Litigant, Lincoln and the Bluegrass , and other books, and a member of the National and Kentucky Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commissions. Never before reduced to writing, the speech was put on tape and recordings were made by Ralph G. Newman, of the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago.

Barbara Trafficanda is an independent writing and editing professional living in Orange County, California.

The town archivist in Danvers, Massachusetts, Richard B. Trask is preparing a book on the photographic history of Kennedy’s assassination.

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).    

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.