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Edgar P. Richardson has been director of two noted museums, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the H. F. du Pont Winterthur Museum, and is the author of many books on American and European art. Actire in the

Donna Richardson, an associate professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, is the author of many articles on romantic poetry, especially that of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and of a book on teaching

Elinor Richey, author of several books on period architecture, lives in Berkeley, California. This article is adapted from her forthcoming book on noted American women.

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A student at Harvard Law School, Roberts S. Rifkind is the author of a previos article in AMERICAN HETITAGE . “The Colonel’s Dream of Power,” a study of Edward House’s little-remembered venture into fiction

Mr. Riggan, affiliated with the Great Books Foundation in Chicago, has been a film buff ever since the day he auditioned for M.G.M. as a boy soprano. He didn’t get the role.

Lorissa Reinhart is a writer specializing in the intersection of women, art, and conflict. Her first biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent was

Steven Rinella is a freelance writer living in Missoula, Montana.

Paul E. Rink was for some years a ship’s engineer and later was employed by the State Department in Panama. He is currently a writer of television documentaries and lives in Monterey, California. For further

Carol E. Rinzler, an attorney with the New York law firm of Rembar & Curtis, is a collector of the work of early twentieth-century illustrators.

Delia M. Rios has been a reporter for nearly 25 years, and has worked for the San Jose Mercury News, Dallas Morning News and Newhouse News Service, the national wire service for Newhouse Newspapers.  As a

John W. Ripley, the publication director of the Shawnee County (Kansas) Historical Society, has been collecting song slides for twenty years.

Charles R. Ritcheson, now Lovell Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Southern California, served as Cultural Attaché at the American Embassy in London during the Bicentennial of the

Peggy Robbins’s article on the Wesleys in Georgia ran in the April/May 1984 issue of American Heritage.

Randy Roberts is a professor of history at Purdue University and has written nearly 30 books about athletes, celebrities and historical figures. 

Since the 1970s, Roberts has made more than 50

David Roberts is the author of seventeen books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. In addition to writing for American Heritage, he has written for National Geographic,

Mr. Roberts, who teaches history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia, is currently writing a book about the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.

Deane Robertson, a former newsman, teaches journalism at California State University, Sacramento. Peggy Robertson is a part-time researcher and editor.

The late Archie Robcrtson, a frequent and delightful contributor to both AMERICAN HERITAGE and HORIZON, was in recent years an editor of The Lamp. He was the author of a number of books, of which Slow Train

Ray Robinson’s books include Iron Horse: Lou Gehrig in His Time .

This article has been adapted from Phyllis C. Robinson’s forthcoming book Willa: The Life of Willa Cather , which will be published in August by Doubleday & Co., Inc.

Dr. Robinson is Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Glynne Robinson is a contributing editor and the co-publisher of the Lakeville Journal , in Lakeville, Connecticut, and the Millerton News , Millerton, New York.

Fred Rodell (1907 – 1980) was an American law professor most famous for his critiques of the U.S. legal profession. In 1939, he wrote the book Woe Unto You, Lawyers!He was one of the leading proponents of the

Stephen W. Stathis is an analyst in American history on the staff of the Library of Congress; Lee Roderick is Washington correspondent for a chain of newspapers located primarily in the western states.

Jennifer Rodibaugh is an editor at Hark! New Era Publishing. She is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. She is also a legal writer and editor

Lynne Rogers, a writer and lecturer, is co-author with Mari L. Henry of How to Be a Working Actor (M. Evans & Co.).

Agnes Rogers, associate editor of the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club, is the author of Women Are Here to Stay, From Man to Machine , and, with her late husband, Frederick Lewis Allen, of The American

Madeline Rogers is the editor of Seaport: New York’s History Magazine , published by the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City.

Charles G. Bolté is editor of The American Oxonian , published by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars; Neu Rolde was formerly majority leader of the Maine House of Representatives. Both writers live

A Louisville, Kentucky, numismatist, Delma Romines is the author of a book on hobo nickels.

James P. Ronda, H.G. Barnard Professor of West American History at the University of Tulsa, has written several books about the Lewis and Clark expedition, most notably Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. A past

Art Ronnie’s article is adapted from his biography of an early barnstormer, Locklear: The Man Who Walked on Wings , which will be published by A. S. Barnes & Company this fall.

Archibald "Archie" Bullock Roosevelt, Jr. (1918-1990), the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, was a career intelligence officer, serving with the Army in North Africa and the Middle East in World War II

Reprinted by permission of the publishers from Cowboys and Kings: Three Great Letters by Theodore Roosevelt, Elting E. Morison, editor. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright, 1951, 1954, by The

Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt is best known for her role as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1982 to 1989. After graduating from Vassar College in New York, Lucky pursued a career in journalism, covering

David J. Rose is a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic, and a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School.

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Marvin and Dorothy Rosenberg wrote “ The Dirtiest Election ,” an article about the presidential campaign of 1884, in the August, 1962, AMERICAN HERITAGE . Mr, Rosenberg teaches dramatic art at the

Charles E. Rosenberg is a professor in the History of Science department at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books on the history of medicine and science, including Cholera Years: The United

Elliot Rosenberg co-authored Louis Eisenstein’s memoir of Lower East Side politics, A Stripe of Tammany’s Tiger .

Linda Rosenkrantz writes a syndicated column about antiques and collectibles.

S. P. Rosenvold Ellicott City, Md.

Nancy Wilson Ross, the author of several distinguished novels, has also written a study of feminine pioneers of the 1800’s, Westward the Women, and a historical and sociological study of the Pacific Northwest

John F. Ross was the Executive Editor of American Heritage and Invention & Technology magazines and a Senior Editor of Smithsonian magazine before that. On assignment, he has chased scorpions in Baja, dived