David Head is an historian, author, and lecturer of history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is the author of four books, including Privateers of the Americas: Spanish American Privateering from the United States in the Early Republic, which won the 2016 John Gardner Maritime Research Award at Mystic Seaport Museum, as well as A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution, a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Book Prize.