Authors

Rene Kuhn Bryant, a novelist and formerly head of foreign news research for Life , is now a part-time correspondent for Time, Inc., in Boston and a free-lance magazine writer. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Art Buchwald was one of America's premier satirical columnists from the 1950s through the 90s. After serving in the Marines during World War II, he enrolled at USC in Los Angeles on the GI bill and edited the campus paper, the Daily Trojan, but left the school when he realized he couldn't get a degree because he hadn't graduated from high school. Off to Paris he went, where he began writing for Variety and then the New York Herald Tribune. Back in America, Buchwald worked mainly for the Washington Post. He wrote 41 books and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for "Outstanding Commentary." Upon his death in 2007, the New York Times posted a video obituary in which Buchwald said "Hi. I'm Art Buchwald and I just died."

Gail Buckland is the author of Reality Recorded: Early Documentary Photography and is a co-author, with Harold Evans, of They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine— Two Centuries of Innovators. Buckland serves as the Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union in New York, having previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia College, and Pratt Institute.

—Christopher Buckley is the editor of Forbes FYI magazine. His latest book is Wry Martinis .

Stephen Budiansky is a journalist and author who has worked as an editor and national security correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and asa a Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment. He has written 14 books about technology, military and security history, and nature. In January 2011 Budiansky completed Perilous Fight, a history of the American naval struggle against the British in the War of 1812, and has also written Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Free Press, 2002), and Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II (Penguin, 2005).

Benjamin Budowsky North Miami Beach, Fla.

David M. Buerge is a historian, teacher, and writer who has been researching the pre- and early history of the city of Seattle since the mid-1970s. He has published fourteen books of history and biography, including most recently Chief Seattle and the Town that Took His Name, the first biography of Chief Seattle intended for adults.

Bethany Ewald Bultman writes regularly on New Orleans food, entertaining, and gastronomic history.

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian since June 16, 2019. He oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and various education units, including the developing National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. Prior to becoming secretary, Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, transforming it from a concept with no staff, collections, or funding into a museum that has welcomed over 8 million visitors since its 2016 opening.

Rosemary L. Burgis is a writer and editor living in London. Operation Ouerlord: The History of an Embroidery and an Invasion , by the museum curator, Stephen Brooks, and by Eve Eckstein, is available in England.

Mrs. Burktialter is curator of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute in San Antonio. Her research on Joe Chadwick brought to light Catlin’s unpublished portrait of Joe.

Nina Burleigh is a journalist and adjunct faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has covered the presidency, American Middle East policy, and religious violence both in the United States and abroad.

Roger Burlingame, a free-lance writer for the past thirty years, is the author of numerous histories, biographies, novels, and juveniles, as well as a steady contributor to the country’s leading magazines. This article is based on a chapter in his forthcoming book, The American Conscience.

Michael Burlingame is a professor of history at Connecticut College and the author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994). He is currently at work on a multivolume biography of Lincoln.

Philip Burnham is a freelance journalist based in Washington who specializes in issues concerning American minorities.

The writer and director and, with Lisa Ades, producer of the recent documentary film The Donner Party , Ric Burns has traveled extensively along the routes of the Oregon and California trails. He is currently at work on a three-hour film about the heyday of the Wild West and the closing of the frontier.

The late James MacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945, served as a combat historian in World War II. He was Woodrow Wilson Professor Emeritus of Government at Williams College, and a Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. His most recent book was Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court (Penguin Press 2009).  

Alexander Burns is a reporter for the New York Times covering politics. Burns was a reporter and editor at Politico before joining the TImes, covering the 2012 Presidential election. He graduated from Harvard College, where he edited the Harvard Crimson.

Brian Burrell is the author of The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, and Pledges That Have Shaped America .

Edwin G. Burrows , winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford USA 1998) with Mike Wallace, is a distinguished professor of history at Brooklyn College. He is the author of 2008's Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. Burrows received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1964 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1973. He has been teaching at Brooklyn College since 1973.

A Quaker himself, Basil Burwell is consultant to the proposed John Woolman Room of the Burlington College Library in Pemberton, New Jersey. He is dean of faculty at the Cherry Lawn School m Dänen, Connecticut. His text for this article is based chiefly on the Everyman’s Library edition of the Journal , edited by Vida D. Scudder (Button, 1910).

Lindley S. Butler is the project historian of the Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project and is America's preeminent authority on piracy during the propriety period. He is the author of Pirates, Privateers, and Rebel Raiders of the Carolina Coast (UNC Press, 2000), and he plans on publishing his definitive history of the period next year.

R. J. C. Butow is a professor emeritus of Japanese history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a leading authority on Japan during World War II and the author of several books including the author of several books on diplomatic history, including Japan's Decision to Surrender, Tojo and the Coming of the War, and The John Doe Associates: Backdoor Diplomacy for Peace, 1941.

Former director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, L. H. Butterfield is editor-in-chief of the Adams Papers . An expanded version of the foregoing article appeared in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in April, 1953.

The author of this article, Dick Button, has won the Olympic, World, European, North American and United States skating championships. He is a theatrical and television producer, a lawyer, and author of a book, Dick Button on Skates .

Max Byrd is a historical writer who previously taught English at Yale University and the University of California-Davis. Born in Atlanta, Byrd first specialized in writing crime novels before switching to focus on historical fiction; his works include Jefferson, Jackson, Grant, and his most recent book, Shooting the Sun, published in 2004.

Mary Cable lives in Santa Fe, among the scenes that Sloan painted. Recently she published a novel, Avery’s Knot, based on a nineteenth-century murder.

Sylvanus Cadwallader was a war correspondent for the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, and was attached to General Grant’s headquarters from 1862 to 1865, where is said to have been involved in constraining and concealing Grant’s drinking. He enjoyed rare access to personalities (Lincoln, Sheridan, and Lee) and events (Vicksburg, Chattanooga, City Point, and Potomac). Cadwallader's manuscript of Three Years with Grant was edited and annotated by Lincoln biographer Benjamin P. Thomas and first published in American Heritage in 1955, nearly a century after the Civil War.

H. Mitchell Caldwell is a professor at the Pepperdine University School of Law. Caldwell primarily teaches criminal procedure, criminal law, and trial advocacy, and has tried cases in the California and United States Supreme Courts. He co-authored The Devil's Advocates with Michael S. Lief in 2007. Professor Caldwell has received several teaching awards, including the Richard Jacobson Award as the nation's premier trial advocacy teacher in 2000.

Orester Caldwell, a publishing executive, was a former member of the first Federal Radio Commission, whose functions were later absorbed by the Federal Communications Commission.

James Callaghan is a Western-history writer for the National Tombstone Epitaph in Arizona.

Tom Callahan believes he may have stayed at the Home Sweet Home Motel during his first visit to the battlefield as a five-year-old in 1963. The visit, not the motel, spurred his lifelong fascination with the Civil War.

Mr. Callow is an associate professor of history at Purdue University. He has just completed a book on the Tweed Ring, to be published next spring by Oxford University Press.

Colin G. Calloway is the John Kimball, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He received his P.h.D. from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, and has written many books on Native American history, including The Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth.

Ruth Mehrtens Calvin, a Boston-based writer who is a senior correspondent for Time , participated in raising funds for the recent restoration of SaintGaudens’s Shaw Memorial. Jerry L. Thompson’s photographs were taken for the book Augustus Saint-Gaudens: God-like Sculptor , by Kathryn Greenthai, which will be published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall. An exhibition of Saint-Gaudens’s work, underwritten by the Clevepak Corporation, will be shown at the Metropolitan from November 19, 1985, through January 26, 1986. The exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where it will be on view from February 26 through May 11, 1986.

Mr. Cantelon is a young scholar and teacher of history currently working on his doctorate at Indiana University. In addition to many documentary sources at Hyde Park and in Washington, D.C., and contemporary news accounts, the author found particularly interesting John Wheeler-Bennett’s biography, King George VI (St. Martin’s, 1958), Eleanor Roosevelt’s This I Remember (Harper, 1949), and The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes (Simon & Schuster, 1954).

Donald R. Canton, a teacher and writer, lives in Pembroke, Maine, fifty miles from St. Andrews.

James Card, a film maker, collector, and historian, has taught at the University of Rochester since 1961.

Glenn L Carle is a Foreign Service officer whose ancestors fought with the Kansas Cavalry.

Peter Ames Carlin is a culture reporter for The Oregonian and has authored two books: Paul McCartney: A Life, published in 2009, and Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, released in 2006. Carlin previously worked as a senior writer for People magazine, and his work can be found in The New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Times magazine, and Men's Journal.