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General Ira Clarence Eaker (1896 – 1987) was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942. He was the architect of the Allied strategic bombing force that ultimately numbered forty groups of 60

Eaker, Ira C.

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has taught since 1982. A noted essayist and

Early, Gerald

Clement Eaton, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, has written a life of Henry Clay for the “Library of American Biography” series, and is the author of other books about the South.

Eaton, Clement
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Eberhart, Richard

A professor of English at the University of Michigan, Cecil Eby has taken a particular interest in the Spanish Civil War and the literature related to it. This article is taken from Between the Bullet and the

Eby, Cecil

S. Max Edelson is  an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of The New Map of Empire and Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina.

Prof. Edelson is also

Edelson, Max
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Editors, The
Editors, is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Editors,

Dr. Edmunds is the Anne and Chester Watson Chair of the History Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Edmunds specializes in the History of Native Americans and the History of the American West, and

Edmunds, R. David

William Waller Edwards is a retired colonel in the Regular Army, a graduate of West Point who served in the First World War and with the cavalry in the old West. Recently he has been engaged in writing a book

Edwards, William Waller

Bob Edwards is an author and award-winning broadcast journalist who has worked for NPR, Sirius/XM Radio, and other outlets. He has won the duPont-Columbia Award for radio journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award

Edwards, Bob

Dr. Sam Edwards, FRHistS, SFHEA, is a Reader in History in the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University.

His first book, Allies in Memory: World War II and the

Edwards, Sam

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at LeMoyne College. He is the author of six books, including He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey, Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of

Egerton, Douglas R.

“U John Egerton is a journalist and historian whose books include The Americanization of Dixie and Visions of Utopia . He is currently at work on a history of Nashville, Tennessee.

Egerton, John

Peter Stevens, who lives in Quincy, Massachusetts, writes frequently on historical themes. Marian Eide is a graduate student in the Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Program at the University of

Eide, Marian

Keith E. Eiler, a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army (West Point, 1944), lives in Washington, D.C., where he currently is writing a biography of the late Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.

Eiler, Keith E.

Milton Stover Eisenhower, (1899 – 1985) served as president of three major American universities: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University. He was the

Eisenhower, Milton S.

John D. Eisenhower, the son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is a retired United States Army officer and the author of several books on military history. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969

Eisenhower, John D.
Eisenhower, Susan is member for American Heritage site since 2014.
Eisenhower, Susan

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Eisenhower, Edgar

Jack El-Hai, who wrote about the Minneapolis-St. Paul census war in the July/August 1990 issue, lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

El-hai, Jack

Alexander Eliot is the author of many books, including The Horizon Concise History of Greece (1972) and the tentatively titled World of Myth , which is scheduled to be published in the fall of 1975 by

Eliot, Alexander
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Elizabeth M. Norman, Michael And

Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books on the history of woman suffrage in the US,

Ellen,  DuBois

Ernest McNeill Eller was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who served as Director of Naval History, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations from 1956 to 1970.

Eller, Ernest M.
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Elliott, Deronda

Joseph J. Ellis, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in History for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Knopf 2000), is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College whose work

Ellis, Joseph J.

Richard E. Ellis (1938-2009) was a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University at Buffalo, where he taught from 1974 until 2009. He was the author of several books and essays on the

Ellis, Richard E.
Ellis, Lewis N. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Ellis, Lewis N.

Daniel Ellsberg is a lecturer, writer, activist, and whistleblower. A former analyst at the RAND corporation, he was an official in the Defense and State Departments under President Lyndon Johnson, and from

Ellsberg, Daniel
Ely, Robert B. is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Ely, Robert B.

Jason Emerson, an independent historian writing from Cazenovia, New York, is the author of The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), Lincoln the Inventor (SIUP, January 2009),

Emerson, Jason

Arye Emert 2002 Grand Prize @ Winning Essay High School (Grade 11) West Windsor @ Plainsboro High School South Princeton Junction, New Jersey Sponsoring Teachers: Leslie Levin and Brian Welch

Emert, Arye

André Emmerich, a former staff member of Time-Life International, World Magazine, Réalitiés, and the New York Herald Tribune, operates a gallery in New York City specializing in the ancient arts of

Emmerich, AndrÉ

Duncan Emrich was the chief of the Folklore Section of the Library of Congress and Professor of American Folklore at American University.

Emrich's book Folklore on the American Land, is a seminal

Emrich, Duncan

Fred L. Engelman, a former teacher of history, is now with a New York advertising agency. He is at work on a book about the final year of the War of 1812. For further reading: History of the United States of

Engelman, Fred L.

Larry Engelmann is a professor of history at San Jose State University, in San Jose, California.

Engelmann, Larry

Paul Engle (1908 – 1991), anoted American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is perhaps best remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as

Engle, Paul

R. D. Eno, a Vermont free-lance writer, conducted the research for this article under the sponsorship of the Nova Scotia Departments of Tourism and Recreation.

Eno, R. D.

Evarts Erickson is a free-lance writer who lives in Boston and denies that he has ever seen a sea serpent.

Erickson, Evarts

Jody Ericson is a freelance writer living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ericson, Jody

Willard R. Espy is a public-relations consultant. This article is adapted from his book Home to Oysterville , to be published this fall.

Espy, Willard R.

J. Worth Estes is a professor of pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Estes, M.d., J. Worth

Kenneth E. Ethridge was a high school teacher and freelance writer based in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Ethridge, Kenneth E.

Sir Harold Evans is a British-born journalist and author who served as the editor of The Sunday Times for 14 years. After moving to the United States, Evans taught at Duke University and worked at The Atlantic

Evans, Harold

Walter C. Evans (1899-1953) was president of Westinghouse Radio Stations, Inc. He was a pioneer wireless operator who got his first license in 1914, when he was fifteen. He also served as a radio operator

Evans, Walter C.

John Mass was born in Vienna and, after coming to this country in 1941, served with the Army Air Force. He is presently an art director with an advertising agency and also an instructor at the Philadelphia

Evans, Walker

Few people are better equipped to write about New Orleans and the bayou country than Oliver Evans. He is a native of the city and the author of a book about it, New Orleans, published by Macmillan in 1959. A

Evans, Oliver

Diane Carlson Evans served in the Army Nurse Corps in 1968 and 1969 in the Vung Tau and Pleiku provinces, and is the author of Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse’s 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of

Evans, Diane Carlson

Mrs. Lou Ann Everett, a former reporter for the Tulsa World, now lives in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where she and her husband publish a weekly newspaper, the Times, and a national fox-hunting monthly called The

Everett, Lou Ann

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