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Arkansas-born but for many years a resident of Vermont, Charles Morrow Wilson has written articles for the Reader’s Digest and other magazines. Among his books are The Bodacious Ozarks and News Is

Wilson, Charles Morrow

Mr. Wilson, a frequent contributor to AMERICAN HERITAGE , is the author of Indiana: A History , published last year. For further reading: The Lords Baltimore and the Maryland Palatinate , by C. C. Hall (

Wilson, William E.

Douglas L. Wilson is George A. Lawrence Professor of English at Knox College and is co-editor, with Rodney O. D’avis, of a forthcoming edition of W. H. Herndon’s letters and interviews about Lincoln to be

Wilson, Douglas L.

Robert Wilson has been an award-winning editor at Preservation, Civilization, and The American Scholar, which he has edited since 2004. He writes often for magazines and newspapers and was on staff at USA Today

Wilson, Robert

William Wilson, a retired Green Beret colonel, is a veteran of the parachute invasions of France and Holland in World War II and took part in the defense of Bastogne with the 101st Airborne Division. Wilson

Wilson, William

Mr. Wingrove is a recently retired communications manager for the Michigan State Police, and former Director of Communications for the Michigan House of Representatives. Mr. Wingrove received a Master's degree

Wingrove, Kendall

DOUGLAS L. WINIARSKI is a professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of Richmond, where he teaches a wide range of courses on the history of religion in early America.

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Winiarski, Douglas L.

Jay Winik, one of the nation's leading historians, is the author of The New York Times bestseller April 1865, and 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History.

In April 2003, "April 1865" premiered as a

Winik, Jay

Adam Winkler is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America and We the Corporations: How American Businesses

Winkler, Adam

Allan Winkler is a professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Ohio. He is the author of The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945(1978); Home Front, U.S.A.: America During

Winkler, Allan M.

William W. W inn is the former managing editor of Atlanta magazine. He is currently a freelance writer specializing in articles on the South, and regularly writes a column for South Today , a publication

Winn, William W.

Viola Hopkins Winner is completing a new study of Henry Adams entitled The Social Education of Henry Adams . She is also one of the editors of the six-volume Letters of Henry Adams (Harvard University

Winner, Viola Hopkins

Alexander Winston is the author who writes on the history of privateers and pirates, including his noted works No Man Knows My Grave (Houghton Mifflin, 1969) and Privateers and Pirates, 1665-1715.

Winston, Alexander

Carter Wiseman is a journalist and instructor at the Yale School of Architecture. He was architectural critic for New York magazine from 1980 to 1996 and recently retired as President of the McDowell Colony. 

Wiseman, Carter

Mr. Wittenberg, a former newspaperman who now runs a public relations firm in Washington, D.C., contributed “Echec!” (about a nineteenth-century chess hoax) to the February, 1960, AMERICAN HERITAGE . For

Wittenberg, Ernest

—Pat Willard is the author of Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life . Her latest book is A Soothing Broth .

Wlllard, Pat
Wohleber, Curt is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Wohleber, Curt

Bertram D. Wolfe is the author of Six Keys to the Soviet System; Khrushchev and Stalin’s Ghost; and Three Who Made a Revolution, the first volume of a history of the Russian Revolution. He is now at work on

Wolfe, Bertram D.

Tom Wolfe’s most recent book is From Bauhaus to Our House , a controversial survey of modern architecture.

Wolfe, Tom

Mr. Wolff is the well-known author of In Flanders Fields (1958) and Little Brown Brother (1961). The above excerpt is from his new book, Lockout , published this month by Harper & Row.

Wolff, Leon
Wolff, Anthony is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Wolff, Anthony

Andrew Wood, professor of communication studies at San Jose State University, details a small part of Americana that’s becoming a thing of the past.

Dr. Wood has authored or co-authored books on internet

Wood, Andrew

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in

Wood, Gordon S.

Everett Wood went on to fly for Pan Am for thirty-one years.

Wood, Everett

Nancy Wood is a renowned New Mexico author/photographer who has published 32 award winning books in the genres of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, children’s and photography.

She began her photographic

Wood, Nancy

Randall B. Woods, who has written extensively about American diplomacy and race relations, is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas. Another version of this story appeared recently in American

Woods, Randall B.

Arkansas-born C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999), Sterling Professor of History at Yale, was the author of The Burden of Southern History and of Origins of the New South, which won the Bancroft prize. His book The

Woodward, C. Vann

Keith C. Woolley was a retired schoolteacher and coach who lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Mr. Wooley entered World War II on Dec. 21, 1942. He was a member of the 91st Reconnaissance Calvary, fighting

Woolley, Keith C.
Dr. John Worth is an anthropologist specializing in archaeology and ethnohistory, with a primary research focus on greater Spanish Florida, and an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the
Worth, John E.
Wrentmore, Ernest is member for American Heritage site since 2011.
Wrentmore, Ernest

Sir Oliver Wright, a career envoy, was asked by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to come out of retirement to serve as the British ambassador in Washington in 1982. He stepped down last summer.

Wright, Oliver

Donald Wright is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York College at Cortland. His books include Oral Traditions from the Gambia and African Americans in the Colonial Era:

Wright, Donald

James Wunsch is associate director of the New Jersey Committee of the Regional Plan Association.

Wunsch, James

Bertram Wyatt-Brown is a professor of history at the University of Florida and a fellow at the National Humanities Center. One of his books, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South , was a

Wyatt-brown, Bertram

Andrew Wyeth’s reminiscence of his father is excerpted from An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art , to be published soon by New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown. The book will appear in

Wyeth, Andrew

A novelist, Oswald Wynd lives in Scotland.

Wynd, Oswald

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