Troubadour Interactive is a developer and publisher of online and print titles for the education and general interest markets. Our history resource, Age of Revolution, has recently been password-protected, with public access now restricted to the tables of contents and opening pages of the three titles in the series. To view restricted materials (over 200 computer pages), open a subscription to one or all of the titles.
Profiles
A native of northern New York, David Inglehart is a graduate of Colby College and earned an M.A. (English) from Middlebury. He has worked variously as a teacher and journalist as well as a developer and publisher of multimedia programming. In 1992, he enlisted the aid of two teaching colleagues and began work on Fateful Lightning: The American Civil War. Three years later he founded Troubadour Interactive and published the results on CD-ROM. Completing a second title on his own, he published Quest for Empire: The Napoleonic Wars in 1998, and later reassembled the original team to produce Born in Battle: The American Revolution in 2001. He currently lives in mid-coast Maine.
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William Hillenbrand received a BA from the State University of New York at Cortland, an MA (in English) from the Pennsylvania State University and an MA in History from the University of Virginia. He began his teaching career at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, where he taught English and History and coached football and baseball for many years. In 1992 he began work on Fateful Lightning, completing the project over the course of three summers–a testament, if any were needed, to the benefits of the academic calendar as well as his prolific talents as a writer and historian. He later he taught at the Bolles School, Jacksonville, Florida, and produced another fully-realized text on the American Revolution. Released on CD-ROM in 2001, Born in Battle received Library Journal‘s Best Reference citation for that year.
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Dennis Kennedy earned a BA from Stonehill College and an MA and PhD (in English) from the University of Massachusetts. He wrote his dissertation on Mark Twain and also specialized in Irish Studies. In arranging and performing the music for Fateful Lightning, Dennis brought a rare combination of scholarship and musicianship to the work, researching and writing an extensive songbook on the composing and publishing circumstances of each of twelve selections, and providing lead vocals as well as accompaniment on instruments ranging from piano to penny whistle. Three years later he applied the same musical virtuosity to the songs of the American Revolution for Born in Battle.
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