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Paul Dickson is the author of more than 55 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now

Lorraine B. Diehl is the author of The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station , published by American Heritage .

Digby Diehl is the founding book editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review and works as a columnist for Playboy and Modern Maturity, in addition to being a literary reporter for "Good Morning America." In

Vincent DiGirolamo is an associate professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York, where he specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. history, with a focus on workers, children,

On December 18 Lieutenant Dill boarded the USNS Hienselman, had his first bath in forty-three days, and experienced a strange sensation: “I had forgotten what it felt like to be warm.” The retreat continued,

Annie Dillard is an author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir.

Gordon L. Dillow is a free-lance writer from Missoula, Montana.

The author is an art historian who writes and lectures on American art.

Leonard Dinnerstein is a professor of history and the director of Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Ris books include The Leonard Frank Case (available in paperback from the University of Georgia

Brian W. Dippie is a professor emeritus of U.S. cultural history at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia. His specialty is the American West.

Dippie’s books include Remington & Russell:

—Thomas M. Disch’s books include The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World and The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft .

Wilson Dizard, Jr., was a USIA officer for 30 years, serving in Turkey, Greece, Iran, Pakistan, Poland, and Vietnam. The author of seven books, he has just completed a history of USIA.

Byron Dobell was the Editor of American Heritage for eight years, during which time the magazine won or was a finalist for a National Magazine Award ten times.

Before joining American Heritage, Dobell

Humphrey Doermann is on the staff of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune and became interested inDonnelly in the course of reporting on current farm problems for those papers. For further reading: Populist Revolt

Eric Jay Dolin is a bestselling author of popular books on American history, maritime history, and the environment. His works include Fur, Fortune, And Empire, a history of America's fur trade, Black Flags,

A Mississippian by birth, David Herbert Donald (1920 – 2009) was the Charles Warren Professor of American History (emeritus from 1991) at Harvard University. He received the Pulitzer Prize twice (1961 and 1988

Jim Donovan is the author of several books, including Custer and the Little Bighorn (Voyageur Press, 2001); the New York Times bestseller A Terrible Glory (Little, Brown, 2008); The Blood of Heroes (Little,

Eugene Dorgan is an associate professor at the Art Institute of Boston.

Richard M. Dorson is chairman of the folklore program at the University of Indiana, Bloomington.

Best known as a novelist and member of the "Lost Generation" of American writers, Dos Passos (1896–1970) turned to writing history later in his career. His 1954 book The Head and Heart of Thomas Jefferson

Esther M. Douty of Washington, D.C., is the author of The Story of Stephen Foster (Grosset & Dunlap) and of a forthcoming book dealing with the adventures of John Wise.

Clifford Dowdey lives in Richmond. Virginia. He has written a number of novels dealing with Civil War themes, and is the author of Experiments in Rebellion , an analysis of Confederate administration

Combat officer in two wars, and author of numerous books, Fairfax Downey contributed “Yankee Gunners at Louisbourg” to the February, 1955, issue of AMERICAN HERITAGE .

Leonard Downie Jr. is the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School and the former executive editor and vice president of The Washington Post. During his 44 years in the Post newsroom, he was

Walter Harding, Distinguished Professor of English at the State University College at Geneseo, New York, has been secretary of the Thoreau Society for many years.

Clarence B. Drennon Fairlawn, Ohio

Barry Dressel is currently the Principal at Prologue History Services in Baltimore, Maryland.  He was educated at East Carolina University and the Getty Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.  

Charles Stewart Dubow is a novelist. He was a founding editor of Forbes.com and later an editor at Businessweek.com. He was educated at Wesleyan University and New York University, and worked as a roustabout, a

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James P. Duffy is the author of over a dozen books, most on military history. His World War II titles include The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-Boat War, Target America, and Hitler's Secret Pirate Fleet. He

Dayton Duncan, the author of five books about the West, is the writer and co-producer of Ken Burns’s film, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of Discovery , to be broadcast by PBS at 8:00 P.M. EST on November 4

Judith Dunford, whose reviews have appeared in The New York Times and The New Republic , is the co-author of a novel, Cashing In .

This article is adapted, with the permission of the editor, from Wheeler’s Review , London, where it appeared in briefer form. Mr. Dunning is a producer for the B.B.C.

Brian Dunning is a journalist living near London. His article on the Welsh town of Milford Haven appeared in the June 1985 issue.

A West Point graduate and a combat veteran of the Burma campaign in World War II, Colonel Trevor N. Dupuy has devoted himself to writing on military subjects since his retirement from the Army in 1958.

Colonel Dupuy, who retired from the Army in 1946 after thirty years’ service is the author of Men of West Point and co-author of the forthcoming Military Heritage of America .

John Durant is the author of The Story of Baseball and (with Otto Bettmann) of The Pictorial History of American Sports . With his wife, Alice, he prepared the pictorial feature “A Century of Cooperstown”

Michael S. Durham’s article on the Mound Builders of the Ohio River Valley appeared in the April 1995 issue of American Heritage .

John Dvorak currently operates a telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.