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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 .

Herbert Mitgang is a member of the Editorial Board of the New York Times . He has written and edited a number of book on Lincoln and the Civil War, the latent being The Fiery Trial: A Life of Lincoln ,

Stephen Molton is an author, filmmaker, professor, painter, and former film executive who serves as Professor of Writing and Producing for Television at the TV Writers Studio MFA program at Long Island

Joseph Monninger, who lives in New York City, has recently published the novel Second Season .

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein commanded the British Eighth Army in North Africa in 1942 and led Allied land forces in the invasion of Europe. He served with Eisenhower until the end of the war and again in

Lynn Montross has written several books on the American Revolution, including The Reluctant Rebels (1950) and Rag, Tag and Bobtail (1951), the story of the Continental Army.

Richard Moody is an associate professor of speech and theater at Indiana University. His book, America Takes the Stage , published this year, is on the American theater, 1750 to 1900.

Elizabeth C. Mooney is a free-lance writer who lives in Washington, D.C. She also has written In the Shadow of the White Plague , a book about her memories of Saranac in the 1920’s, to be published in March

D. M. Giangreco and Kathryn Moore are the authors of Dear Harry …: Truman’s Mailroom, 1945-1953 (Stackpole, 1999).

—Max Morath is a nationally known entertainer and the author of The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Popular Standards .

Mr. Morcom, who is with the Department of Physical Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has based his article largely on his collection of Hale family letters and documents.

Ethan Mordden is the author of The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical .

Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was a Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale who authored many books about the American colonies and the Founding Fathers. His 2002 book, Benjamin Franklin, was a finalist

H. Wayne Morgan was a Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of William McKinley and His America, New Muses: Art in American Culture, and Oklahoma: A Bicentennial History.

The author was a senior editor of Look from 1953 to 1958. He has written two novels and many articles and was the press secretary to Mayor John Lindsay in New York City from 1969 to 1973. His article on

James Morgan is a writer whose works include The Distance to the Moon, If These Walls had Ears, and worked with President Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, on her autobiography, Leading with My Heart.

Murray Morgan (1916-2000) was a historian of the Puget Sound region and history teacher at Tacoma Community College. His book Skid Road, and informal portrait of Seattle, was said to be the "longest-running

Elting E. Morison is Killian Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve (1887-1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable.

Morison received

Richard K. Morris, a grandson of the Holland ’s first engineer, Charles A. Morris, teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and is at work on a biography of John P. Holland. Courtlandt Canby of

—Jan Morris’s most recent book is Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest .

—Donald R. Morris is a historian, a novelist, and the publisher of a weekly newsletter.

Roy Morris Jr. is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of four well-received books on the Civil War and post-Civil War eras: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the

Gregory D. L. Morris, former global-markets editor for Chemical Week , and former executive editor of Bank Investment Marketing , is a member of the editorial board of the Museum of American Financial

Nancy Morris is a Hawaii historian who has worked for the University of Hawaii and worked as curator of the Jean Charlot Collection. Morris has written several books about the Aloha State and serves on the

Richard B. Morris (1904 - 1989) was an American historian who focused on the constitutional, diplomatic, and political history of the American Revolution and the making of the U.S. Constitution. He was the

Joseph L. Morrison is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill.

Ann Morrow is an independent journalist and editor based in New York's Hudson River Valley region. She has 30 years experience writing for newspapers and regional and national magazines, and concentrates on

A Houston resident, Randall Morton founded The Progressive Forum and co-founded The Oilfield Breakfast Forum, the largest speaker series in the petroleum industry, which he hosted for nine years. 

He

Louis Morton, chief of the Pacific Section of the Army’s Office of Military History, has written on military and colonial history. His latest book, The Fall of the Philippines , is a volume in the Army

Don Moser, who was formerly an assistant managing editor of LIFE , is now afree-lance writer who lives in Washington, D.C.He is currently working on a book about the China-Burma-India theater in World War II

J. Robert Moskin is an award-winning historian and journalist. He has reported from troubled spots around the globe: from Korea, the Middle East, eastern Europe, and three times from the Vietnam war – including

Bill Moyers is a journalist at CBS News. This article is based on a speech he made recently at the University of Texas, Austin.

Maura Moynihan is a New York author and journalist who has written for Vogue, The New Republic, Interview, Epoch Times and the Guardian. A long time critic of the Chinese occupation of Tibet, she has worked

Mr. Moynihan, pathologist of megalopolis, was Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1963 to 1965. Since 1966 he has been director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard, and professor of

Ruth D. Muehl teaches English at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

Harry Miles Muheim has published a novel and is working on another one. He also writes speeches, documentary films, and political television spots. He lives in San Francisco.

A former correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who has written on a variety of historical topics, Bob Mullin now teaches high school English.

Lewis Mumford (1895 – 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher, and influential literary critic noted for his writings on cities and urban architecture.

Mumford served as the architectural

Jerrold Mundis is a writer, speaker, and counselor. He has written 17 novels, 13 non-fiction books, and some 100 short stories, essays, and articles. He has written under various pseudonyms, including Robert

Richard Murphy is a freelance writer.

Wendy Murphy, a former editor at AMERICAN HERITAGE , is now living in Connecticut, where she hopes to have more time to tend to her own flowers and vegetables. She is the author of Gardening Under Lights

Cullen Murphy is the managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and writer of the comic strip “Prince Valiant.” This essay is drawn in part from his new book The Word According to Eve: Women and the Bible in

Mr. Murray is the head of the history department at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Public Opinion and the American Red Cross (1950) and of Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria (