Authors

Marcia R. Carlisle is a historian and writer who currently teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.

A sports-car enthusiast, John Carlova has worked all over the world as a newspaperman and magazine writer, and now lives in Laguna Beach, California. He has just published a novel, Adam and Evil .

W. Bernard Carlson is a Professor at the University of Virginia, with appointments in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (School of Engineering) and the History Department (College of Arts and Sciences). He received his Ph.D in the history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania and did his postdoctoral work in business history at the Harvard Business School. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford University and the University of Manchester.

William E. Carnahan is retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is now a freelance writer and photographer. The U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave., N.E., Washington, DC 20002-1958, is open daily (202-544-8733).

Mark C. Carnes is a professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University. He was Co-General Editor of the 26-volume American National Biography (1999). During the past decade, he has been involved in "Reacting to the Past," a pedagogical initiative in which college students play elaborate games, set in the past, their roles informed by classic texts. His book on Reacting, Mind Games: Revitalizing Higher Education Through Deep Role-Playing, is forthcoming.

Benjamin L. Carp is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he holds the Daniel M. Lyons Chair in American History. He is the author of three books on the history of the American Revolution and the eighteenth century, including Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution, and The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution. In addition to books and scholarly articles, Carp has written for BBC History, Colonial Williamsburg, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post and has appeared on podcasts like The Alarmist, History Extra, and Revolution 250 and on radio and television.

—Caleb Carr is the author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness .

For years, Donald Carroll, the author of eight books, kept running across the name of Varian Fry in reports about artists who had escaped Nazism and come to America. Finally his curiosity was so aroused that he went to work digging out Fry’s story.

Gerald Carson was a former advertising executive, prolific author, and Contributing Editor of American Heritage.  The first hardcover issue of American Heritage, in December 1954, contained an appropriately Christmasy article called “Holiday Time at the Old Country Store” he wrote, and it was the first of twenty-seven articles Carson published with us over the years, making him our most frequent contributor except for columnists and staff members. He also served on our Advisory Board from 1964 to 1976 and in 1989. Gerry died suddenly of a heart attack on Monday, December 4, 1989, at the age of ninety. He never stopped writing and had just completed an article the day before he died.

Marian S. Carson has written on many aspects of American art history but has a special interest in the beginnings of photography.

Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson has devoted most his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr. Under his direction, the King Papers Project has produced six volumes of a definitive, comprehensive edition of speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. Professor Carson is the director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and Executive Director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection.

Betty W. Carter is publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi, and a free-lance writer on conservation, travel, and agricultural topics. Together with her husband, the late Hodding Carter, she wrote two books, So Great a Good (1955) and Doomed Road of Empire: The Spanish Trail of Conquest (1963).

Tom Carter teaches journalism at Georgia Southern University and is a student of battleship history.

The book from which this article is adapted started as a doctoral thesis; it will be published under the title Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South by the Louisiana State University Press in January, 1969. The twenty-eightyear-old author, Dan T. Carter, is an assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland. We are proud to introduce this exciting historian in A MERICAN H ERITAGE .

Mr. Carter, author of the recently published Cyrus Field: Man of Two Worlds , lives in Wakefield, R. I.

J. S. Cartier is an artist and photographer whose current subject is the natural and man-made environment of New York City.

Scott E. Casper is a historian of nineteenth-century studies and president of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the   research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture founded in 1812. Dr. Casper is the author of two books, Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine and Constructing American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1999). The latter won the best book in the history of the book prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.  Dr. Casper has also co-authored and edited five scholarly volumes and three textbooks. He served as visiting editor of the William and Mary Quarterly (2008-09) and as contributing editor of the Journal of American History (2008-18).

Mr. Castel, professor of American history at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, is the author of A Frontier State at War: Kansas, 1861–1865 and of William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times . For further reading: Sam Houston, the Great Designer , by Llerena Friend (University of Texas Press, 1954); The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston , by Marquis James (Bobbs-Merrill, 1929); The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense , by Walter Prescott Webb (Houghton Mifflin, 1935).

This article is taken from The World and the Parish: Willa Gather’s Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902 , edited by William M. Curtin, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press in November. COPYRIGHT ©1970 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS

Bruce Catton (1899 – 1978) was the Founding Editor of American Heritage and arguably the most prolific and popular of all Civil War historians. He wrote an astonishing 167 articles for American Heritage, and won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald Ford, in 1977, the year before his death.

William B. Cation, instructor in history at the University of Maryland, is writing a life of John W. Garrett to complete the requirements for a Ph.D. at Northwestern University.

A newspaper editor before World War n, Charles R. Cawthon chose to remain on active duty after hostilities were over and later commanded a battalion in the Korean War. Now retired, he operates a tree farm in Virginia.

A newspaper editor before World War II, Charles R. Cawthon (1912-1996) was a front-line officer whose 116th Infantry Regiment landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day and fought its way across Europe to the Elbe. He joined the Virginia National Guard in 1940 and when America entered the war, his division was among the first shipped out to England, where they spent two years preparing to spearhead the largest amphibious military operation in history.

Toby Cecchini is the author of Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life .

Mr. Cenedella, a free-lance writer living in New York, has written for television as well as for many national magazines. He was formerly with the Public Affairs Department of the National Broadcasting Company.

COPYRIGHT © 1971 BY KURT W. MAREK

Bruce Chadwick is a writer and professor who teaches Film, History, and English at Rutgers University and New Jersey City University. He worked at the New York Daily News before completing a P.h.D in American History from Rutgers. He has written over 20 books on history and baseball, most notably The General & Mrs. Washington: The Untold Story of a Marriage and a Revolution, The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film, and Triumvirate: The Story of the Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation.

Professor Chambers, who teaches history at Barnard College, Columbia University, is preparing a book on the subject of the ex-Presidency.

John Chancellor, senior commentator for NBC News, has reported on armed conflict from Cuba, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Vietnam.

Daniel T. Chapman, a colonel m the United States Army, became interested in the Carlisle Indian School when he was studying at the Army War College located on the site of the old school.

Patrick J. Charles is Senior Historian for U.S. Special Operations Command and the author of numerous articles and books on the Constitution, legal history, and standards of review. His writings on the history of the Second Amendment have been cited by Second, Third, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, and his book, The Second Amendment: The Intent and Its Interpretation by the States and the Supreme Court, was cited by Justice Stephen Breyer in the landmark Supreme Court decision McDonald v. City of Chicago. Charles is a two time recipient of the Allan S. Major Award, given annually to recognize the top history program out of the over 170 wings and groups in the U.S. Air Force.

Samuel Charters has written about the blues and jazz and made recordings of the blues, jazz, and folk music, many of them award-winning, since the 1950s. This article is adapted from The Blues Makers , published this April by Da Capo Press.

Lawrence W. Cheek has written nine books about Arizona and New Mexico. He now lives in Seattle but continues to explore and write about his native Southwest.

Benjamin Cheever has written four novels — The Plagiarist, The Partisan, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny—and two nonfiction works, Selling Ben Cheever and Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete. He is also the editor of The Letters of John Cheever. Cheever has also been a reporter for The New York Times, The Nation, and The New Yorker. He is also an editor at Reader's Digest

A native of Wyoming and holder of a doctorate in literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lynne Cheney is a Social and Cultural Studies senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Dr. Cheney previously served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities after working as an editor and a freelance writer. Married to former Vice President Dick Cheney, she was the Second Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009. She is also the author of James Madison: A Life Reconsidered and numerous books of history for young readers.

Ron Chernow is an award-winning American biographer whose first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1990. His more recent works have received similar acclaim, including the 1998 biography Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and 2004's Alexander Hamilton. Both works were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Washington: A Life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2011 after its 2010 publication. Mr. Chernow is a past president of PEN American Center, the leading book writer's organization in the U.S. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Society of American Historians.   

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. is White House Historian and an expert on the cabinet, the presidency, and political institutions. She received her BA in history and political science from the George Washington University and her masters and PhD from the University of California, Davis. Her first book The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution came out in Spring 2020, from Harvard University Press. She is on Twitter @lmchervinsky.

A staff writer for the National Observer and a previous contributor to this magazine, Mr. Chew has been interested in the equine species since he exercised hunters and steeplechasers as a boy in Virginia. He was the recipient of the Magazine Journalism Award of the Thoroughbred Racing Association in ig6g for his article on trainer John Cotter and his wife, Mary, a show rider.

—Frederick J. Chiaventone, a novelist and screenwriter, is a retired Army officer and professor emeritus of international security affairs at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. His most recent book, Moon of Bitter Cold , is a novel of Red Cloud’s war.

Thomas Childers serves as the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A native Tennessean, Professor Childers specializes in Modern German history and World War II. His works include a multi-volume history of World War II that includes Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II, published in 1995, and In the Shadows of War, a History Book Club selection for 2003.

Marquis W. Childs is Washington correspondent and columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has covered Washington since 1934 and is the author of a number of books, best known of which is Sweden—The Middle Way .

Ken Chowder has scripted over 25 documentary films (and one feature film) broadcast on BBC, NBC, TBS, Discovery, A & E, and PBS. His credits include seven films for PBS’ The American Experience, including "John Brown's Holy War", one American Masters,and seven National Geographic films. Mr. Chowder has written three acclaimed novels: Blackbird Days, Delicate Geometry and Jadis. All were published by Harper & Row.

David Chrisinger is the Executive Director of the Public Policy Writing Workshop at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and the Director of Writing Seminars for The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on the human impact of military Service. Chrisinger is the author of several books, including The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II and Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor’s Guide to Writing about Trauma.