Elizabeth Becker

Jan 23, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Catherine McNeur |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker

Editor's Note: Catherine McNeur is an associate professor of history at Portland State University and is the author of Taming Manhattan and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science, in which portions of the following essay appear. Shifting and hoisting her skirts to make her way through the narrow rows of wheat with her net, knife, magnifying glass, and containers, the entomologist Margaretta Hare Morris was on a mission.

Oct 23, 2023 | americanheritage.com | H. W. Brands |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker |Edwin Grosvenor

”I first saw her on October 18, 1878, and loved her as soon as I saw her sweet, fair young face. …” Thus Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Alice Hathaway Lee, the girl he married in 1880 when he was twenty-two and she nineteen—tall and lithe, with curly light hair and “dovegray” eyes; “beautiful in face and form,” he said, “and lovelier still in spirit.…” T.R. wooed her with all the impetuous gusto for which he was later famous, and the wedding took place soon after he graduated from Harvard.

Oct 18, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker |Ann Morrow

Through the years, American Heritage has published many stories of courage on the front lines of war. In this issue, we offer, for the first time, profiles of female journalists who covered combat during the Vietnam war. During that conflict, women were largely barred from witnessing action at the front, and often faced a real challenge just getting to Southeast Asia.

Oct 18, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Lorissa Rinehart |Wilbur E. Garrett |Elizabeth Becker

Editor's Note: Cultural critic and historian Lorissa Rinehart writes about art, war, and politics. She adapted the following from her recently published book, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent.

Oct 18, 2023 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Elizabeth Becker |Wilbur E. Garrett |Ann Morrow

Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Becker is a respected war correspondent and award-winning author, having worked for The New York Times, National Public Radio and the Washington Post. Among her books is You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, from which the following was adapted. When they gave the twenty-minute warning, Catherine Leroy was waiting in her assigned seat on the left side of the C-130 cargo plane, the air thick with the heat of Vietnam’s dry season.