Dr. Matthew Mehan is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Government for the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C., right on Capitol Hill. He has been teaching and designing humanities and civics curricula for twenty-five years. Dr. Mehan has consulted for national leaders and heads of state. He has written for various outlets both scholarly and popular, including Moreana and The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author of The Handsome Little Cygnet as well as Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals, an illustrated, best-selling book of poems that one critic called ‘a new classic’ in children's literature. His new book, The American Book of Fables, celebrates America’s 250th and releases this May. He is on the board of advisors for Hillsdale’s K-12. His lovely wife and their eight children live in Northern Virginia.