Mike Bunn serves as the director of Historic Blakeley State Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Fort Stoddert: American Sentinel on the Mobile River, 1799-1814, Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era and The Assault on Fort Blakeley: "The Thunder and Lightning of Battle." Clay Willams graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in history and public policy administration. He has cowritten two books, Battle for the Southern Frontier: The Creek War and the War of 1812 and Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798-1840. He currently serves as program manager for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.