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James Kirby Martin’s academic teaching career includes stops at Rutgers University, the University of Houston, The Citadel, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero: An American Warrior Reconsidered; A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic 1763-1789; Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution; and Insurrection: The American Revolution and Its Meaning. Among his professional activities, Martin has served as an historian consultant to the Oneida Indian Nation of New York and a book series advisory editor to Oxford University Press, New York University Press, and Westholme Publishers.

Bob Burris has been a guiding force behind such high profile network television shows as Warner Brothers’ Growing Pains. As a feature film writer and producer, Burris has written and produced a number of successful, inspirational projects. He has worked extensively with the Warner Bros. Writer’s Workshop, nurturing and developing aspiring television and screenwriters, teaching craft and helping them shape their work.