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Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays,

Catherine McNeur is an associate professor of history at Portland State University and the author of Taming Manhattan and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science.

Mac McPhail is a columnist for The Sampson Independent of Clinton, NC, and author of Wandering Thoughts from a Wondering Mind, a collection of his columns from over the years.

James M. McPherson, the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, is perhaps America’s foremost living Civil War scholar. Among his books are his one-volume history of the

Mary Frech McVicker is a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction based in Brookfield, Illinois.

Ellen B. Meacham is an award-winning writer who teaches journalism at The University of Mississippi and is the author of Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi. (University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Jon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose latest books include, The Soul of

Judson Mead is associate editor of Americana magazine.

Charles L. Mee, Jr.’s most recent book is The Genius of the People , the story of the Constitutional Convention. It was published by Harper & Row earlier this year. Mr. Mee lives in New York.

Ira Meistrich is a freelance television producer who lives in New York City

Greg Melville is an author and journalist who teaches English at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was the recipient of the school's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2019. His writing has appeared in many top

Phillips Melville is a retired Air Force colonel now living in Washington, D.C., who has undertaken a new career as a marine artist and author.

Louis Menand is a professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This essay is adapted from his introduction to Pragmatism: A Reader , which is being published by Vintage

Ink Mendelsohn is a writer and editor for the Smithsonian News Service.

Gregg Herken, author of Counsels of War , is writing a book about presidential science advisers. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

An attorney and free-lance writer, Bill Merrell is also the head coach of women’s intercollegiate soccer at the University of California at Berkeley.

Robert Merry is the former editor of The American Conservative and a longtime Washington journalist and publishing executive. He has published five books on American history and foreign policy, including 

David W. Messer Royersford, Pa.

Zachariah Paulo Messitte is the 13th president of Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and a professor in the Politics and Government Department. He is the author of numerous articles that reflect his interests

William B. Meyer’s essay on how the dismal swamps of the nineteenth century became the priceless wetlands of the twentieth appeared in the May/June issue.

Danny Meyer is the proprietor of some of New York’s most popular restaurants, among them Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern, and Eleven Madison Park.

Eugene L. Meyer is a veteran journalist who writes about history, lifestyles, travel, and real estate. He is the author of three books, including Five for Freedom. The African American Soldiers in John Brown's

Ralph O. Meyer is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kentucky and earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of North Carolina.

He did experimental research at the University of Arizona

Larry L. Meyer is former editor of Westways and Colorado magazines and the author of Shadow of a Continent: The American West in 1776.

Larry L. Meyer is former editor of Westways and Colorado magazines and the author of Shadow of a Continent: The American West in 1776.

He also is a Lecturer in Journalism at California State University

John A. Meyer, M.D., is a professor of thoracic surgery at the State University of New York’s Health Science Center in Syracuse and is the author of Lung Cancer Chronicles , published in 1990 by the Rutgers

David Michaelis is an author and biographer whose work includes national bestsellers such as N. C. Wyeth (Alfred A. Knopf; Harper Perennial), which won the 1999 Ambassador Book Award for Biography, and Schulz

—James W. Michaels is the editor of Forbes magazine.

Debra Michals is a journalist and Ph.D. candidate in American history at New York University.

William D. Middleton has published nine books of railroad history, among them a three-volume illustrated history of electrified street, interurban, and main-line railways in America.

Yanek Mieczkowski is a presidential historian and author of Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s, Eisenhower’s Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige, and The Routledge Historical Atlas of

Jeffrey B. Miller has been a writer, editor, and author for nearly forty years. His career includes starting six magazines (city, regional, andnational), being editor-in-chief of five inflight magazines,

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History at Lafayette College and a historical consultant and screenwriter. In 2010, Miller won an Emmy Award for his role as a consultant and writer

Richard Lawrence Miller is an author and broadcaster who writes on American historical topics. His first book, Truman: The Rise to Power, was published by McGraw-Hill in 1985 and drew outstanding reviews from

Professor Perry Miller teaches American literature at Harvard. He is the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts, The Puritans (with T. H. Johnson), The New England Mind , and Jonathan Edwards . © 1952 BY

Hanna Miller, a food historian, leads culinary tours in Asheville, North Carolina.

Randall M. Miller is a professor of history at St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia. The author or editor of more than 20 books, Miller recently completed a book on Lincoln and leadership and another on the

John E. Miller was a longtime professor of history at South Dakota State University, where he began teaching in 1973. He was the winner of numerous scholarly awards over that time, including the South Dakota

Jeffrey W. Miller is editorial director of the Department of News and Public Information at the University of California at San Francisco.

The interviewer, Nathan Miller, is author of The History of Our Navy , published by AMERICAN HERITAGE and the U.S. Naval Institute, and the newly published FDR: An Intimate History .

—Allan R. Millett, a professor of history at Ohio State University, is co-author of A War to Be Won: Fighting World War II .

Nicolaus Mills is a professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and the author of Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial .

Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner have edited The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations , The New International Dictionary of Quotations , A Dictionary of Quotations From Shakespeare , and A

Mr. Mitchell, formerly Director of Information for the American Merchant Marine Institute, has contributed several articles on ships and the sea to AMERICAN HERITAGE . For further reading: The Frigate

Robert Mitchell is a writer and editor with the Washington Post News Service. He is the author of two books on American history, including King of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawn

Marion Wefer is a writer of plays for children and is a regular contributor to young people’s magazines. This is her first appearance in AMERICAN HERITAGE .

Mr. Mitchell was past editor of Sierra Club Books and a longtime editor and writer for Audubon magazine. He worked for National Geographic from 1994 to 2004. He wrote eight books, including Losing Ground (1975