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Nathan Ward

Nathan Ward is an author and journalist who served as an editor at American Heritage. In 2010 Ward published Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. Ward frequently writes for The New York Times, and he lives in Brooklyn.

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One of the half-dozen most famous Americans of the twentieth century steps into full daylight
Hungry?, August/September 2005 | Vol. 56, No. 4
Five Brooklyn classics will take care of that
There’s no place like home—especially if it’s an ancient railway barge
The City of Churches and Henry Ward Beecher, of Walt Whitman, Coney Island, and a famously departed baseball team is ready for its next act—as a world-class tourist destination
A talk with the superb journalist and sports report who was the co-author of MASH and wrote Ernest Hemingway’s favorite fight novel
When terrorists first struck New York’s financial district
Sports Tradition, September 2001 | Vol. 52, No. 6
Carter, Kennedy, and Me
Musical Tradition, May/June 2000 | Vol. 51, No. 3
A Sporting Life, October 1999 | Vol. 50, No. 6
The author of America’s best-loved baseball book speaks of his days as a reporter, of his time (unique among sportswriters) owning a team, and of his latest subject, Jack Dempsey, whose violent career he uses to illuminate an era
Journalistic Trend, May/June 1999 | Vol. 50, No. 3
A D-DAY VETERAN’S GRANDSON ATTEMPTS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT MOST IMPENETRABLE QUESTION: WHAT WAS IT LIKE?
Lesbian Chic
Red Cloud’s Deal
An Early Armistice, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
The greatest war in history came to an end on November 11, but not without a final cruel twist.
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Dear John Smith
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Nixon Redux; Fighting Shirley
Time Machine, November 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 7
Birth of the Yale Woman
Time Machine, September 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 5
Schermerhorn, the Rain King
Unclean Gene
Lights Out, July/August 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 4
Keeping It On
Philadelphia Fever
She Thumped Her Last
The Time Machine, May/June 1993 | Vol. 44, No. 3
His Truth Goes Marching On
Yanks Make Good