George C. Herring served on the UK history faculty from 1969 to 2005. His writing has focused on the Vietnam War and includes, most importantly, America's Longest War:  The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975 (5th ed., 2013). His book From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 was published in 2008 in Oxford University Press's History of the United States Series.