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Elizabeth "Bess" Corey taught school in a number of rural schools across Shelby and Cass counties in Iowa. Letters she wrote home between 1904 and 1908 provide a firsthand account of the realities of life in a country school. The letters were recently published in An Iowa Schoolma'am: Letters of Elizabeth 'Bess' Corey, 1904-1908, edited by Philip L. Gerber and Charlotte Wright and published by the University of Iowa Press.

Joseph J. Corn teaches American Studies at Stanford University and is finishing a book on aviation and society.

Matthew Costello is the Assistant Director of the David M. Rubenstein National Center for White House History for the White House Historical Association in Washington, D.C. His book, The Property of the Nation: George Washington’s Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President was published by University Press of Kansas in fall 2019 and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.  Costello has also published articles in The Journal of History and Cultures, Essays in History, The Dome, and White House History. He earned his PhD and MA from Marquette University, and BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

David T. Courtwright is a professor of history at the University of North Florida. This article is adapted from his book Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder From the Frontier to the Inner City , to be published by Harvard University Press in November.

Ruth Schwartz Cowan is a professor of history and director of women’s studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. This article previously appeared in the spring 1987 issue of our sister publication, American Heritage of Invention & Technology .

Micahel Teague is a British photojournalist now working in Washington, D.C.; Zélide Cowan, his sister, lives in London. A seletion of Captain William Buck’s colors is currently on exhibit at the Shepherd Gallery in New York City.

Mark Cowick is a photographer living in Austin, Texas, who often prowls the back roads of Central Texas.

Robert Cowley, who was a student of Archibald MacLeish’s at Harvard, is now an editor at Random House.

Malcolm Cowley (1898 – 1989) was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist. He was a leading chronicler and editor of "Lost Generation" writers. During 1920s Cowley lived in Paris and became friends with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, and others. His 1934 book Exile's Return was the first published in the United States about the "Lost Generation", Cowley edited a new edition of Leaves of Grass in 1959 which helped revive Walt Whitman's reputation. He was also influential in establishing the careers of Jack Kerouac and John Cheever.

Peter Cozzens is the author of sixteen critically acclaimed books on the American Civil War and the American West. Cozzens also is a recently retired Foreign Service Officer, U. S. Department of State. His newest book is The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2016. All of Cozzens' books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and/​or the Military Book Club. Cozzens’ This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga were both Main Selections of the History Book Club and were chosen by Civil War Magazine as two of the 100 greatest works ever written on the conflict. 

Paul Critchlow is Senior Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs, for Merrill Lynch. He is back at work in his office overlooking Ground Zero.

Ann Crittenden is an award-winning journalist, author, and lecturer. She was a reporter for The New York Times for eight years, writing on a broad range of economic topics. She initiated numerous investigative reports and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also been a financial writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek, a reporter for Fortune magazine, a visiting lecturer at MIT and Yale, an economics commentator for CBS News, and executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

Alfred W. Crosby (1931 – 2018), Professor Emeritus of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard University, and the University of Helsinki, was the author of nine books, including America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Several of his honors include being appointed Fulbright Bicentennial Professor, and his appointment as Academician by Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari.

Harry H. Crosby is assistant professor at the State University of Iowa and author of a forthcoming life of Clarence King.

—Gary Cross, a historian at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood .

Wilbur Cross, an author and editor living in Bronxville, New York, has written several books, mainly on historical topics. Among them are the American Heritage Junior Library Naval Battles and Heroes, and White House Weddings , published last November by McKay. His sources for this article include Frank Luther Mott’s American Journalism (Macmillan, 1950), W. A. Swanberg’s Citizen Hearst (Scribner, 1961), and, of course, The Story of Evangelina Cisneros, Told by Herself (Continental, 1897).

Beginning in 1998, Crouch has served as the Senior Curator of the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. A Smithsonian employee since 1974, he has served both the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in curatorial and administrative posts. (1973-1974).He is the author or editor of more than 18 books and over 100 articles for both popular magazines and scholarly journals. Most of his work has been on aspects of the history of flight and flight technology.

Ms. Crowley was a journalist who wrote a column for the Detroit Free Press and published essays in The New Yorker, Harpers, and other publications.

When, inevitably, the war came, John Culbertson was living in the mining town of Cripple Creek, Colorado; he walked all the way to Leavenworth, Kansas, to enlist in a cavalry regiment, in which he served for four years. He was badly wounded but recovered and became a Presbyterian missionary, first in South Dakota, afterward in Siam. There he met and married a lady missionary, Miss Belle Caldwell, and it was to their son, John, that the old man dictated this memoir nearly forty years ago. It was sent to AMERICAN HERITAGE by the younger Culbertson and his wife, Edna, of Salt Lake City.

Jim Cullen is the author of over a dozen books and has taught at Harvard, Fordham and Sarah Lawrence College. He currently on the faculty at Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich, Connecticut and previously taught history for twenty years at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Tufts University, and a master’s and doctoral degree in American Studies from Brown. 

Elizabeth Cumming was a leading cartographic researcher and frequently partnered on projects with her husband, William P. Cumming. Mrs. Cumming taught English at Smith and at Queens College in Charlotte.

William P. Cumming was a leading historian of cartography and professor emeritus of English at Davidson College in North Carolina. He frequently worked with his wife, Elizabeth Cumming. Mr. Cummings authored numerous books and articles on the cartography of North America including The Southeast in Early Maps, British maps of colonial America, The Exploration of North America, 1630-1776, and Mapping the North Carolina Coast: Sixteenth-Century Cartography and the Roanoke Voyages. The William P. Cumming Map Society continues the work of Mr. Cummings by bringing together individuals who share a common interest and enthusiasm for maps

Marcus Cunliffe is University Professor at George Washington University. He was born and educated in England.

Mr. Cunningham owns and operates a photo-engraving business in the town of Stillwater in his native Oklahoma. In his spare time he is a free-lance writer on the American past and a collector of historical photographs; he now owns more than ten thousand glass negatives. He is the author of Indian Territory: A Frontier Photographic Record by W. S. Prettyman , a pioneer Oklahoma photographer several of whose pictures accompany this article.

Mr. Cunningham recently completed a term as president of the New Jersey Historical Society. He is the author of several books, including New Jersey: America’s Main Road (Doubleday, 1966), a history of the state. He did much of his research for this article at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Dan Cupper is the author of Pennsylvania Turnpike—A History , which will be published in May by Applied Arts Publishers, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

During the academic year just concluded Richard N. Current, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, served as Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford University. Among his books are Daniel Webster and the Rise of National Conservatism . He is co-author, with the late J. G. Randall, of Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure , which received a Bancroft Award in 1956. For further reading: The Life of John Marshall , by A. J. Beveridge, a vols. (Houghton Mifflin); A History of Dartmouth College, 1815-1909 , by J. K. Lord (Dartmouth).

Edith Roelker Curtis of Dublin, New Hampshire, has recently completed a study of the Ripleys and Brook Farm. She has published biographies of Anne Hutchinson and Lady Sarah Lennox, and contributes to various quarterlies. For information on Christopher Cranch and for assistance in locating his transcendentalist drawings we are indebted to F. De Wolfe Miller, author of Christopher Cranch and His Caricatures .

Bruce Curtis, author of William Graham Sumner , is a professor of American thought and language at Michigan State University.

Wayne Curtis is a freelance journlist and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Preservation, and Down East. He frequently writes about travel, history, historic preservation, and architecture, and published And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails in 2006.

The late Charles P. Curtis, who died this past December, was a distinguished Boston attorney and the author of a number of books, including The Oppenheimer Case, Lions Under the Throne , and (with Ferris Greenslet) The Practical Cogitator , an anthology. Claude Moore Fuess, the headmaster emeritus of Phillips Academy, Andover, is well known for his fine biography of Daniel Webster. He is now writing a book to be called American Private Schools and Headmasters . These articles were originally prepared for and read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society on November 13, 1958.

Lawrence B. Custer practices law in Marietta, Georgia, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the recently formed Georgia Legal History Foundation.

(Charles L. C’utler, it’ho is an editor for American Education Publications, icon runner-up honors as a youth in the Massachusetts junior chess champions/up.

Paul Russell Cutright, professor of biology at Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania, is the author of two books, The Great Naturalists Explore South America and Theodore Roosevelt the Naturalist . For much of the technical information in this article he is indebted to Dr. R. G. Williams, Joseph Leidy Professor of Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Virginius Dabney was editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch for 33 years and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his editorial writing. He was the author of a dozen books including Virginia: The New Dominion, Richmond: The Story of a City, and The Jefferson Scandals, a Rebuttal, which was a refutation of the Sally Hemings allegations. He wrote for The New York Times and other publications, and served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

Curtis Dahl, Samuel Valentine Cole Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts, is a previous contributor and the author of several critical works on American literature.

Robert Daley, European sports correspondent for the New York Times , has been writing since he was twelve, at which age he started a novel called Mike Wynne’s Bike Trip , first of a projected twenty-volume series. But after five chapters, he says, “I decided it was childish and gave it up.” This article is based on Mr. Daley’s The World Beneath the City , recently published by Lippincott. For further reading: “Boss” Tweed , by Denis Lynch (Boni and Liveright, 1927); Fifty Years of Rapid Transit , by James B. Walker (Law Printing Company, 1918); Tammany Hall , by M. R. Werner (Doubleday, Daran, 1928).

Robert Dallek, finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (HarperCollins 2007) and winner of the 1979 Bancroft Prize for Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (Oxford University Press 1980), is a faculty member of Stanford in Washington.

Matthew Dallek, a Richard Hof stadter Fellow in American history at Columbia University, is writing his dissertation on Brown, Reagan, and the failure of liberalism.

Allan L. Damon was a teacher of American Studies at Horace Greeley High School and a Contributing Editor of AMERICAN HERITAGE. Mr. Damon authored The Great Red Scare in 1968.

English-born George Dangerfield (Oxon. 1927), who is now an American citizen, won both the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes in 1953 for his study of the Monroe-Adams period, The Era of Good Feelings . He is currently at work on an extended biography of Robert Livingston.