DAVID S. Heidler and JEANNE T. HEIDLER are renowned, award-winning historians. David is on the faculty of Colorado State University, Pueblo. He is the author of Pulling the Temple Down: The Fire-eaters and the Destruction of the Union. Jeanne is Professor of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She is co-author with David Heidler of The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812, the award-winning The Encycloopedia of the American Civil War, a Social, Political, and Military History, and The War of 1812 (Greenwood, 2002).