About The Author

David Inglehart

David Inglehart graduated Colby College in 1974 and earned an M.A. (in English) from Middlebury. He has worked variously as a journalist, teacher and multimedia developer, embarking on the latter career in 1992, when he enlisted three teaching colleagues in a project to be titled Fateful Lightning: The American Civil War. Publishing the work on CD-ROM, he went to work on a solo project, Quest for Empire: The Napoleonic Wars, which he published in 1998. Next, putting together the original Fateful Lightning team, he embarked on a final project, Born in Battle: The American Revolution, published in 2001. All three programs have since been converted to the browser and combined in a single website under the title Age of Revolution, and most recently, he published a memoir, “Near the Borderline: Coming of age (and then some) on the northern frontier.” He currently lives in mid-coast Maine.

About The Author

William Hillenbrand received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Cortland, an MA (in English) from Pennsylvania State University and an MA in History from the University of Virginia. He began his teaching career at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, where he taught English and History and coached football and baseball for many years. In 1992 he began writing the text of Fateful Lightning, completing the work over the course of three summers–a testament to the benefits of the academic calendar as well as his prolific talents as a writer and historian. Startinging in 1998, he repeated the feat with the completion of a comprehensive study of the American Revolution, Born in Battle. He later taught English at the Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. 

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Dennis Kennedy

Dennis Kennedy earned a B.A. from Stonehill College and an MA and PhD (in English) from the University of Massachusetts. He wrote his dissertation on Mark Twain and also specialized in Irish Studies. In arranging and performing the music for both Fateful Lightning and Born in Battle, Dennis brought a rare combination of scholarship and musicianship to the work, researching and writing an extensive songbook and providing lead vocals as well as accompaniment on instruments ranging from piano to penny whistle.