About the Heidlers
VITA OF DAVID S. HEIDLER
Education
Ph.D., United States History, 1985, Auburn University
M.A., United States History, 1980, Auburn University
B.A., Journalism and History, 1978, Auburn University
Professional Experience
Department of History, Office of Continuing Education, Colorado State University- Pueblo. September
1995-Present.
Department of History, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado. August 1994-May 1999.
Department of History, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland. August 1984-June 1994. (Duties included
Director of Graduate Studies)
Publications
Series Editor. Civil Military Relations in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Series Editor. American Soldiers’ Lives. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
Series Editor. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
Editor, Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime: The United States, Colonial Times through the Civil War.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming.
Editor, Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime: The United States, Indian Wars through the Vietnam War.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming.
"Randolph B. Marcy and the Army of the Potomac," chapter in Notable Chiefs of Staff, David Zabecki, ed.
Boulder: Westview, forthcoming.
Indian Removal: A Norton Casebook. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
The Mexican War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2005.
"'Not A Ragged Mob:' The Inauguration of 1829." White House History, Journal of the White House
Historical Association 15 (2004): 14-23.
Daily Life in the Early American Republic: Creating a New Nation, 1790-1815. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004.
"Andrew Jackson." In The Lawyer Presidents. Ed. by Norman Gross. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University
Press, 2004.
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. (Paperback edition) Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Manifest Destiny. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2003.
Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. Paperback edition. Baton Rouge: LSU Press,
2003.
The War of 1812. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2002.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. Single volume edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. CD-ROM edition. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. CD-ROM edition. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
"David M. Potter and Southern History," chapter in Reading the South: Essays on the South’s Most
Notable Historians. Glenn Feldman, ed. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2001.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. E-book edition. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Consulting Editor. Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
"David E. Twiggs." In The United States and Mexico at War. Donald Frazier, ed. New York: Macmillan
PublishingCompany, 1998.
"William L. Marcy." In The United States and Mexico at War. Donald Frazier, ed. New York: Macmillan
PublishingCompany, 1998.
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: United States-Creek Indian Relations, 1814-1818." Alabama Review
50 (October 1997): 267-289.
Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. Mchanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996.
Pulling the Temple Down: The Fire-Eaters and the Destruction of the Union. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books,
1994.
"The Politics of National Aggression: Congress and the First Seminole War," Journal of the Early Republic,
13 (Winter 1993): 501-530.
"Virginia in the Revolutionary War." In The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Richard Blanco, ed.,
2vols. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1993.
"Samuel Elbert." In The Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Richard Blanco, ed., 2 vols. New York:
Garland Publishing Co., 1993.
"John C. Calhoun." In Great Lives in American History. Salem Press, 1987.
"The American Defeat at Briar Creek, 3 March 1779." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (Fall 1982): 317-331.
Presentations
"The Spy, the Vice-President, and the Explorer: The Burr Conspiracy and the American West."Pioneers
Museum, Colorado Spring, Colorado, February 2006.
"Awkward Fellow, Sure Footed: Lincoln at War." Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary, RegionalMeeting,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 2005.
Commentator. Italian-Americans in the U.S. Civil War. Italian-American Association Annual Meeting,
Annapolis, Marlyand, November 2004.
"You’re Dead Now Brother: Hemingway and the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane." Annual Meeting ofthe
Hemingway Society, Key West, Florida, June 2004.
"Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the First Seminole War." The Florida Lecture Series,Center for
Florida History, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, October 2003.
"Do Recognize Him Some Where, and Kill Him: John Wilkes Booth, Popular Culture, and the Cult of
Personality." Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2003.
"The Day of the Radical: The Fire-eaters and the Charleston Convention of 1860." The Citadel Conference
on the South, Charleston, South Carolina, April 2000.
"Hemingway at War: A Historian's Perspective." The United States Air Force Academy's Ernest Hemingway
Conference, October 1999.
"Teaching History through Cinema." The International World History Association Meeting, FortCollins,
Colorado, June 1998.
"Stopping Stephen A. Douglas: The Massachusetts Democracy’s Role in 1860." The Nineteenth Annual
Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 19 September 1997.
"Violence on the Frontier: The Chehaw Incident in 1818." The Annual SISSI Conference, Colorado Springs,
April 1997.
"Jackson and Gender: Jacksonian Democracy and the Feminine Ideal." The Western Social Science
Association Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada, April 1996.
"The Battle of Chancellorsville in Fact, Not Fiction." The United States Air Force Academy Stephen Crane
Conference, December 1995.
Commentator, Historical Perceptions of Native-Americans and African-Americans in Films and Monographs.
Western Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, California, April 1995.
"Anatomy of a Massacre: The Chehaw Incident, 1818." The American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch
Annual Meeting, Fullerton, California, August 1994.
"Southern Native American Auxiliaries in the War of 1812 and the First Seminole War." The Western Social
Science Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1994.
"States' Rights and Civil-Military Relations: Andrew Jackson and the Chehaw Massacre." The Society for
Military History Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 1994.
"David E. Twiggs and the Mexican War." The Palo Alto International Conference on the Mexican War,
Brownsville,Texas, February 1994.
"United States-Creek Relations, 1814-1817." The Society for Military History, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May
1993.
"The Allied Creeks and the First Seminole War." The Alabama Studies Symposium, Alabama Department of
Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama, 1992.
"The United States Government in the Aftermath of the Seminole War." The Auburn University History Department
Centennial Conference, 1991.
"The Politics of National Aggression: Congress and the First Seminole War." The Annual Conference of the
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Madison, Wisconsin, 1991.
Moderator, Culture and Philosophy in the 19th Century, Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1991.
"Beyond Created Equal: The Dilemma of Southern Political Dissent in the Era of Good Feelings." The Annual
Conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1989.
"The Imperfect Union: Antebellum Southern Perceptions of the United States Constitution." The Citadel
Conference on Southern History, Charleston, South Carolina, 1986.
"Samuel Elbert and the Saint Augustine Expeditions, 1777 -1778." The Annual Conference of the Alabama
Academy of Science, Birmingham, Alabama, 1982.
Book Reviewer and Referee
- Alabama Review
- Georgia Historical Quarterly
- Gulf Coast Historical Review
- Journal of the Early Republic
- Military History of the Southwest
- Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter
- The Journal of Southern History
- The Historian
- Referee, Journal of the Early Republic
- Referee, University of Tennessee Press
- Referee, Alabama Historical Quarterly