Richard M. Ketchum

A long-time editor with American Heritage, Richard M. Ketchum is the author of the Revolutionary War classics Decisive Day: The Battle of Bunker Hill; The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton; the award-winning New York Times Notable Book Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War; and, most recently, Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York. Born in Pittsburgh, Ketchum served in the Navy during World War II. He lives in Vermont.

Articles by this Author

Faces From The Past-XII, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

Dr. J. H. Mclean’s Peace Makers, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4

Sixty-five years before the bomb destroyed Hiroshima, a medicine man from Sf. Louis dreamed up a weapons system “so terrible and devastating” as to banish war forever. He would be, he modestly admitted, the savior of mankind

“The Decisive Day Is Come”, August 1962 | Vol. 13, No. 5

The battle between rebels and redcoats that should have taken place at Bunker Hill was fought at Breed’s instead. It was the first of many costly mistakes for both sides

Faces From The Past-VII, June 1962 | Vol. 13, No. 4

Faces From The Past—IV, October 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 6

Faces From The Past—III, August 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 5

Faces From The Past-V, December 1961 | Vol. 13, No. 1

The Case Of The Missing Portrait, April 1958 | Vol. 9, No. 3

Thomas Jefferson paid Gilbert Stuart $100 for a portrait, then waited 21 years for delivery. A fire-blackened canvas discovered over a century later raises doubt that the original ever left the artist’s Boston studio

New England Summer, August 1957 | Vol. 8, No. 5

Before painting his famous seascapes, Winslow Hosier recorded a golden time which has almost passed from the American scene

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