JAMES KIRBY MARTIN is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Houston. Among his many books are Insurrection: The American Revolution and Its Meaning, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered, and, with Mark Edward Lender, A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763–1789.
DAVID L. PRESTON is the Westvaco Professor of National Security Studies at The Citadel. He is the author of Braddock’s Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution, winner of the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, and The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783.
MARK EDWARD LENDER has written extensively on early American social and military history and is a recognized authority on the War for Independence, including Cabal! The Plot Against General Washington. Lender’s scholarship has won awards from the Society for Military History and the U.S. Army Historical Foundation and a fellowship from the Smith National Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. In 2017 he was a finalist for the prestigious George Washington Literary Prize.
EDWARD G. LENGEL is the author of Inventing George Washington: America’s Founder, in Myth and Memory and General George Washington: A Military Life, finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. As Editor-in-Chief of the Papers of George Washington project at the University of Virginia, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
CHARLES NEIMEYER is the Director and Chief of Marine Corps History at Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia. He has taught at the United States Naval Academy, the University of Maryland, and Georgetown University and is the author of America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army, 1775–1783.
JIM PIECUCH is author of The Battle of Camden: A Documentary History, Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, and edited Cavalry in the American Revolution.