An award-winning historian, Rick Herrera is the author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778, For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861, and of numerous articles and essays. His forthcoming book is the tentatively titled, A Most Uncommon Soldier: The Life, Letters, and Journal of Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps, 1814-1893, an edited collection. A graduate of Marquette University (Ph.D., 1998) and the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1984), Herrera has taught at Mount Union College and Texas Lutheran University. Before becoming a historian, Herrera spent five years in sales and served three years as an armor and cavalry officer in the U.S. Army.