ABOUT About the Heidlers
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. 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. They have written a study of Indian Removal, published by W. W. Norton in 2006. Jeanne is Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy where she is the senior civilian member of her department.
Their most recent work is a biography of Henry Clay published by Random House.