About the Heidlers
VITA OF JEANNE T. HEIDLER
Address
187 Dolomite Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
719-590-7504
jtheidler@msn.com
Education
B.A. 1978 Mercer University, History
M.A. 1980 Auburn University, United States History
Ph.D. 1988 Auburn University, United States History
Professional Experience
Professor, United States Air Force Academy, 1999-present.
Associate Professor, United States Air Force Academy, 1996-1999.
Assistant Professor, United States Air Force Academy, 1993-1996.
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.
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.
Editor, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. One volume edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Editor, Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. CD-ROM edition. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO,
2002.
Co-Editor. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. CD-ROM edition. Santa Barbara and London: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Co-Editor. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara and London: ABC–CLIO, 2000.
Co-Author. "David M. Potter and Southern History," chapter Reading Southern History: Essays on the
South's Most Notable Historians. Edited by Glenn Feldman. Tuscaloosa and London: University of
Alabama Press, 2000.
Co-Editor. Encyclopedia of the War of 1812. Santa Barbara and London: ABC Clio, 1997.
Co-Author. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: United States-Creek Indian Relations, 1814-1818." Alabama
Review 50 (October 1997): 267-289.
Co-Author, Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. Mechanicsburg, PA.: Stackpole
Books,1996.
"The Surrender of United States in Texas, 1861." In Lone Star Blue and Gray: Essays on Texas in the
Civil War. Edited by Ralph A. Wooster. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1995.
Co-Editor, Modern World History: 1500 to the Present. (2 Vols.) Boston: Simon and Schuster, 1994.
Three Articles, Colonial Wars of North America, ed. Allan Gallay. New York: Garland Press, 1996.
Three articles, The American Revolution: An Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Blanco. New York: Garland Press, 1993.
"Embarrassing Situation: David E. Twiggs and the Surrender of United States Forces in Texas, 1861." Military
History of the Southwest, 21 (Fall 1991): 157-172.
Book Reviews for: The Journal of Southern History, The Journal of the Early Republic, The Journal of Military
History, Alabama Review, Military History of the West, The Historian, Military History of the Southwest,
New Mexico Historical Quarterly, North Carolina Historical Review, H-Civil War, and Florida Historical
Quarterly Referee for: The Journal of Military History, Alabama Review.
Presentations
"The Spy, the Vice-President, and the Explorer: The Burr Conspiracy and the American West." Pioneers Museum,
Colorado Spring, Colorado, February 2006.
"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.
"Why Not Mobile?" Alabama Humanities Council, Montgomery, Alabama, July 2001.
"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.
"Building Bridges Between American History and World History." The Annual Meeting of the Organization of
American Historians, Toronto, Canada, 24 April 1999.
"Internationalizing United States History." Presented at International World History Association Meeting,
Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1998.
Commentator, Panel on "Immigration and Western American History," at the Western Social Science
Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 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.
Commentator, Panel on "Women in Western American History," at the Western Social Science Association
Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1997.
"United States Military History in the World Context: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European
Imperialism and the Origins and Influences of American Military Traditions." The
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, New York, 5 January 1997.
"Treason or Tradition? Native American White Allies of the Southeast," The Annual Native American Studies
Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 14 June 1996.
"Propertied and Prominent: Andrew Jackson and Land Speculation." The Annual Meeting of the Western Social
Science Association, Reno, Nevada, April 1996.
"The Battle of Chancellorsville in Fact, Not Fiction." The Stephen Crane Centennial of The Red Badge of Courage
Conference, United States Air Force Academy, December 1995.
Commentator, Panel on "Native Americans in the 20th Century West," at the Western Social Science Association
Annual Meeting, Oakland, California, April 1995.
"Anatomy of a Massacre: The Chehaw Incident of 1818." The Pacific Coast Branch of the American History
Association, Fullerton, CA, 13 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–American 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 Annual Meeting, Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, May 1993.
"Allied Creeks and the First Seminole War." The Annual Symposium on Alabama Studies, Montgomery,
Alabama, October 1992.
"Provoking a Conquest: The United States Army and the Origins of the First Seminole War." Presented to the
Auburn University History Centennial Celebration, October 1991.
"The Regular Army in the First Seminole War." The Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the
Early American Republic, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 1989.
"The Economic Motivations for the Second Seminole War." The Annual meeting of the Society for Historians of
the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1987.
Numerous speeches to local civic groups, historical societies, public schools, etc.
Book Reviewer and Referee- Alabama Review
- Journal of Military History
- Civil War History of the West
- Journal of the Early Republic
- Military History of the Southwest
- Society of Civil War Historians Newsletter
- The Historian
- North Carolina Historical Review
- H-Net
- Florida Historical Quarterly
- New Mexico Historical Review
Professional Affiliations
AWARDS AND GRANTS