David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, residents of Colorado Springs, met each other while studying at Auburn University where both received their Ph.Ds in United States History. Together as a husband-wife team, they have written numerous books and articles dealing with the history of the early American republic, the Antebellum period, and the Civil War, including
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 and the award-winning
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Social, Political, and Military History, which received the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award in 2003. They are the authors of
Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire,
The War of 1812,
Manifest Destiny,
Daily Life in the Early American Republic: Creating a New Nation, 1790-1820, and
The Mexican War, which appeared last year. In addition to generating new insights into American History through their own published works, the Heidlers are general editors for several series of monographs examining U.S. civil-military relations, American soldiers’ lives, and life on the home front. Their most recent book is on Indian Removal, published by W. W. Norton in 2006. The Heidlers, who have lived in northwestern Colorado Springs since 1993, each maintain a regional teaching affiliation: David is associated with the History Department of Colorado State University-Pueblo, and Jeanne is Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy where she is the senior civilian member of her department.
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