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The article is based on a chapter from Pete Daniel’s The Shadow of Slavery : Peonage in the South , 1901–1969, to be published soon by the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Daniel is a Southerner who has worked as an assistant editor on the Booker T. Washington Papers, and is now assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee.

A native of North Carolina and one of America’s eminent journalists, Jonathan Worth Daniels is the editor of the Raleigh News and Observer. Toward the end of World War II he served as administrative assistant to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is the author of many books, the most recent of which is The Devil’s Backbone , a history of the Natchez Trace, published by McGraw-Hill.

Elizabeth Daniels, who lives in Gettysburg, is working on a book about the effects of the battle on the town and its people. Many of the children’s accounts quoted here have been preserved by the Adams County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society.

Gene Dattel, author of Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power, works as a financial historian, writer, lecturer, and financial adviser. A native Mississippian, Dattel worked as an international investments banker at Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley, and he served as an advisory scholar to The New York Historical Society.

Marshall B. Davidsoris article on the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum appeared in our April/May, 1980, issue.

Carla Davidson formerly served as Senior Editor at American Heritage and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times.

William C. Davis is the editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and the author of a biography of John C. Breckinridge that will be published next spring by the Louisiana State University Press.

Sid Davis, a lecturer and writer, was White House correspondent for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in 1963 and served later as vice president and Washington bureau chief for NBC News. He is a former guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Curtis Carroll Davis is a writer on Southern literature and history, author of Chronicler of Cavaliers .

Kenneth S. Davis, a frequent contributor, wrote “ The Birth of Social Security ” in our April/May 1979 issue.

David Brion Davis is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and a prominent scholar on slavery and abolition in the Western World. Davis has written many books on the history and morality of slavery, including Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World and Challenging The Boundaries of Slavery. Over his career Davis has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Society of American Historians' Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement. 

Like most Boston literary people, Peter Davison came from elsewhere: New York and Colorado. He has been involved in Boston’s publishing community since 1955 and has written eight books of poetry and a memoir called Half Remembered .

Gavan Daws teaches at the University of Hawaii and has just completed a history of Hawaii; Timothy Head, also a history teacher, recently returned from an assignment in Japan which enabled him to pursue that end of the research on the Bonins. Together they wrote an article about the island of Niihau for our October, 1963, issue.

Scott Dawson is a researcher, author, and founder of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, which has led archaeological excavations on Hatteras Island, a barrier island off the North Carolina coast, to uncover the mystery of what happened to members of "Lost Colony" at nearby Roanoke. His recent book, The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island, documents his team’s discoveries over the last ten years.  Dawson himself is a native Hatteras Island, having grown up less than a mile from the Croatoan village site. His family can trace their roots on Hatteras back to the 1600's when a Dutchman named Thomas Mueller shipwrecked on the island, was rescued by the Croatoan Indians, and later married a Croatoan woman named Rea. In 2002, Scott received a degree in Psychology with a minor in history from the University of Tennessee.

Jose Enrique de la Peña (1807–1840) was a colonel in the Mexican Army. Under General Antonio López de Santa Anna, de la Peña participated in the Battle of the Alamo. In 1955, a controversial book of his memoirs of the battle was published.

Mr. Deac, public information specialist and speech writer for the Air Force Eastern Test Range at Cape Kennedy, has been a newspaper editor, advertising copywriter, publicrelations administrator, and government historian.

Gloria Deak is a writer who specializes in American art and cultural affairs. She has authored many books including: Picturing New York: The City from its Beginnings to the Present; Picturing America: Volumes I and II; Profiles of American Artists and American Views: Prospects and Vistas.

During the coming year, the America & Russia series, together with certain other articles on the subject from earlier issues of AMERICAN HERITAGE , will be published in book form by Simon tr Schuster, New York.

Andy J. Deering is a librarian and watch collector mho lives in rural Wyoming.

Carl N. Degler teaches the history of the South and American cultural history at Fassar College. He is the author of Out of Our Past, The Forces That Shaped Modern America . For further reading: History of the Old South , by Clement Eaton (Macmillan, 1949); The Ordeal of the Union , by Allan Nevins (2 vols., Scribner, 1947); The Southern Claims Commission , by Frank Klingberg (University of California Press, 1955); Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory , by L. Minor Blackford (Harvard University Press, 1954); Disloyalty in the Confederacy , by Georgia Lee Tatum (University of North Carolina Press, 1934).

—Dale DeGroff ran the bar at New York’s Rainbow Room for eleven years and appears often on television and radio as a mixology expert.

Mr. Deiss is the author of The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller (Crowell, 1969), a reinterpretation, based on new research, of this misunderstood woman.

Mr. Delaney, who teaches history at Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas, adapted this article from his biography of John McIntosh Kell, which is to be published by the University of Alabama Press.

Nicholas Delbanco is the author of fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction and directs the writing program for the Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Michigan. He has been at work for the last several years on his novel Rumford: His Book .

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John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Demos was awarded the Bancroft Prize for his 1982 book, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. His most recent work, Circles and Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America, discusses how colonial Americans viewed their life experiences. 

Barbara Piatelli Dempsey was born in Rome and educated in New York.  She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in comparative literature.  She co-wrote the book "Dempsey" with her stepfather, boxing legend Jack Dempsey.  She currently lives in New York City.   

Amy Denton is an adjunct professor in history at Lone Star College in Austin, TX. She earned a BA at Stephen F. Austin State University and a Masters Degree in history at the University of Houston.

Sally Denton is an investigative reporter and author who writes about America's hidden history. She has written seven books, including her most recent, The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right , released in 2012. She was honored with the Woodrow Wilson Public Scholar Fellowship in 2010, a Guggenheim Fellowhship in 2006, and entered the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2008.

Virginia Van der Veer (Mrs. Lowell S. Hamilton), a member of the history department of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, is completing her doctoral dissertation on the Senate career of Hugo Black.

Rear Admiral Van Deurs, born in Portland, Oregon, in 1901, entered the Navy in 1917, qualified as a naval aviator in 1923, and retired from active service in 1951.

A retired college teacher, Mr. Dewey now lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing his memoirs.

Lorraine Lethuray Dexter, a former New Yorker now living in Vermont, began collecting stereoscopic views in 1938 and today has about 30,000 of them, as well as examples of all kinds of viewers in use during stereo’s golden age. The pictures shown here are from her collection.

Paul Dickson is the author of more than 55 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball and 20th century history. Bestselling books include: Baseball’s Greatest Quotations, The Hidden Language of Baseball, and The Joy of Keeping Score.

Digby Diehl is the founding book editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review and works as a columnist for Playboy and Modern Maturity, in addition to being a literary reporter for "Good Morning America." In 1997 Diehl completed Tales From The Crypt: The Official Archives Including the Complete History of DC Comics and the Hit Television Series.

Lorraine B. Diehl is the author of The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station , published by American Heritage .

Vincent DiGirolamo is an associate professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. history, with a focus on workers, children, immigrants, city life, and print culture. He is most recently the author of Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys (Oxford University Press, 2019), which won the Palmegiano Prize for journalism history from the American Historical Association. DiGirolamo is a native of Monterey, California. He currently serves as Baruch chapter chair of the PSC (Professional Staff Congress), the union representing CUNY faculty and staff.

On December 18 Lieutenant Dill boarded the USNS Hienselman, had his first bath in forty-three days, and experienced a strange sensation: “I had forgotten what it felt like to be warm.” The retreat continued, and Seoul was recaptured by the communists on January 4, 1951. By spring it was again in Allied hands as “Operation Killer” restored a defensible battle line slightly north of the 38th Parallel. But MacArthur was forbidden to strike across the Yalu, protested bitterly, and was replaced. Neither side could make much headway, and peace negotiations began in July. They dragged on for two years before an armistice was signed. Three decades later the unification of Korea is still a dream. Today, James Dill is a structural engineer in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Annie Dillard is an author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Gordon L. Dillow is a free-lance writer from Missoula, Montana.

Leonard Dinnerstein is a professor of history and the director of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Ris books include The Leonard Frank Case (available in paperback from the University of Georgia Press), America and the Survivors of the Holocaust , and Antisemitism in America .

The author is an art historian who writes and lectures on American art.