Authors

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 and Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. He also contributed to A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower. He received his PhD in history from Purdue University in 1999.

Mark Walczynski is a retired adjunct faculty member at Illinois Valley Community College and the Park Historian for the Starved Rock Foundation, located at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois. He is the author of The History of Starved Rock, which chronicles the development of the famous site from its earliest sighting by European explorers in 1673 to its designation as the centerpiece of Illinois' second state park in 1911.   

Malvin Wald was a screenwriter most famous for the 1948 police drama The Naked City, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.  Mr. Wald wrote over 150 scripts for motion pictures and TV shows including Peter Gunn, Daktari, and Perry Mason. He also served with the Army Air Forces and taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California.  Wald died at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles from age-related causes at age 90.

Steven Waldman is a journalist, digital content pioneer, entrepreneur, and President and Co-Founder at Report for America, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening our communities and democracy through local journalism. He is the author of the national bestseller Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged A Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty, as well as Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom. 

Terry Waldo is a jazz and ragtime pianist and the author of This Is Ragtime (Da Capo Press).

Mr. Waldron first encountered llie legend of Richard Harding Davis in tlie reminiscences of a night city editor on tlic Newark, New Jersey, Star Ledger , for which he was a specialfeatures writer, rewrite man, and statehouse correspondent before he accepted his current position as a si/iff writer for the Institute of Life Insurance in New York City. For further reading: Richard Harding Davis: His Day , by Fairfax Downey (Scribner’s, 1953); The Richard Harding Davis Years , by Gerald Longford (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961).

Charles J. Errico is a professor of history at Northern Virginia Community College; J. Samuel Walker is the historian for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John Walker, author and critic, was formerly the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Wall, professor of history and dean at Grinnell College, is the first scholar to gain access to the Carnegie papers held by the United States Steel Company. The resulting biography, Andrew Carnegie , which will be published this month by Oxford University Press, is the basis for this article. COPYRIGHT ©BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, INC., 1970

Paul A. W. Wallace, editor of Pennsylvania History , is author of several books on Indian and Colonial history. Inset drawings are by Ray Fadden, present-day Mohawk. They represent traditional ways of depicting the myths of the Iroquois.

Edward S. Wallace, who contributed “ The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny ” to the December, 1957, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE , is the author of several books, among them (with Major General John K. Herr) The Story of the U.S. Cavalry. Mr. Wallace lives in Lyme, Connecticut.

Carol McD. Wallace is a free-lance writer based in New York.

Gregory Wallance is a lawyer and writer in New York City. He is the author of Papa’s Game, about the theft of the French Connection heroin, which received a nonfiction nomination for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, America’s Soul in the Balance, The Woman Who Fought an Empire, and the historical novel Two Men Before the Storm. Wallance has written op eds for The New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, has appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and The Today Show, and is currently a Contributor for The Hill.

John Walton teaches in the education department of Johns Hopkins University and is the author of John Filson of Kentucke , to be published this year by the University of Kentucky Press.

A former editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE, Geoffrey Ward is an author and screenwriter of various documentaries on American history. He wrote the television mini-series The Civil War with Ken Burns and has collaborated with Burns on every documentary he has made since, including Jazz and Baseball. This work won him five Emmy Awards. Another Burns/Ward collaboration, The War, premiered on PBS in September 2007. In addition he co-wrote The West, of which Ken Burns was an executive producer, with fellow historian Dayton Duncan. Ward is the author or co-author of eighteen books, including five companion books to the documentaries he has written. A First-Class Temperament, his biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians.

Nathan Ward is an author and journalist who served as an editor at American Heritage. In 2010 Ward published Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. Ward frequently writes for The New York Times, and he lives in Brooklyn.

A pioneer in the field of women’s history and a leading feminist biographer, Susan Ware is the author and editor of numerous books on twentieth-century U.S. history. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University, she has taught at New York University and Harvard, where she served as editor of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (2004). She is the author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote and American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (Library of America),