Donald A. Rakestraw is University College Professor of History at Winthrop University and Professor Emeritus at Georgia Southern University. Among his numerous publications on nineteenth-century American history and U.S. foreign relations are For Honor or Destiny: The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory and Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s (with Howard Jones). He has delivered countless lectures on Anglo-American relations and the history of U.S. foreign relations in both the United States and the United Kingdom.