Jennifer J. Rodibaugh

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 in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served four years as assistant editor of the national quarterly magazine American Heritage for which she wrote numerous articles including “Funding the Civil War,” “When Donkey & Elephant First Clashed,” and “Happy Anniversary, Central Park!”

Articles by this Author

Archaeologists at Roanoke Unearth New Clues, Spring 2010 | Vol. 60, No. 1

Surprise Inscription Found on Lincoln's Watch, Summer 2009 | Vol. 59, No. 2

Cartoonery, Spring/Summer 2008 | Vol. 58, No. 4

When the Donkey and the Elephant First Clashed

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Happy Anniversary, Central Park!

Imagine New York City’s Central Park carved into an eclectic mix of ponds and glades or consumed by a labyrinth of French topiary, and you will see the Park as several landscape designers envisioned it in 1857. The Central Park design competition was the suggestion of English designer, Calvert Vaux…

American Heritage Reviews The Pacific

As I write, tens of thousands of American soldiers are scraping out a life of tedium, punctuated by moments of terrible violence, in a rocky landscape of scorched earth far to the east. They seek an enemy that slips effortlessly through the terrain, is incomprehensible in its motives, and which…

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