David S. Heidler" is a renowned award-winning historian on the faculty of Colorado State University, Pueblo. He is co-author with Jeanne T. Heidler of "Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social and Military History", "Encyclopedia of the War of 1812", "Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War", "Manifest Destiny", "The War of 1812", "Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820", and "Old Hickory's War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire".