Willard Sterne Randall is a Distinguished Scholar in History and Professor Emeritus at Champlain College. Prior to entering academia, he had a seventeen-year career as an investigative reporter-during which he garnered the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize, the Loeb Award, and the John Hancock Prize-before pursuing advanced studies in history at Princeton University. As a biographer and lecturer, he specializes in the history of the Founding Era.