David Head

About The Author

David Head (editor) is an associate lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida and a distinguished faculty fellow in history at Kentucky Wesleyan College. He is the author of Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic and A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, which was a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize.

Books by David Head

A Republic of Scoundrels

The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation

Edited by David Head
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s.
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A Crisis of Peace

George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution

By David Head
The dramatic story of George Washington's first crisis of the fledgling republic.
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