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Jeanne T. Heidler

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BIOGRAPHY

Jeanne T. Heidler is an award-winning historian who has written or edited numerous articles and books on the Early American Republic, the Antebellum period, and the America Civil War, including Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire (Louisiana State University Press, 2003) and Henry Clay: The Essential American (Random House, 2010; paperback, 2011). She has recently completed a study of how associates and the family of George Washington shaped the man and his presidency. Tentatively titled Washington’s Circle, it is projected for publication in 2015 by Random House.

Primary Contributions (4)

Articles

War of 1812

War of 1812, (June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815), conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. The tensions that caused the War of 1812 arose from the French…

Manifest Destiny

Henry Clay

The Rise of Andrew Jackson

Publications (3)

Henry Clay The Essential American (May 2011)

By David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured in full at last in this rich and sweeping biography.

David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler present Clay in his early years as a precocious, witty, and optimistic Virginia farm boy who at the age...

The Mexican War (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900) (November 2005)

By David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts. Primary documents, biographical sketches and narrative chapters rounded out by twenty images and maps and a robust bibliography and index make this work by two of America's foremost Antebellum historians a must have to understand one of our most contentious episodes.

The United States...

The War of 1812 (2002)

By David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

Entangled in the Napoleonic conflicts on the European continent, the reasons for fighting the War of 1812 are far from clear. Once the conflict got underway, both the United States and Great Britain waged it in great confusion and finally concluded it inconclusively. Meanwhile, the war deeply divided American sentiment, possibly more than did any other war, including Vietnam. With an overview essay providing historical background, seven essays on specific topics related to the war, biographies...