Kevin R. Hardwick, Assistant Professor of History at James Madison University, teaches the history of British colonial America and Virginia history. Warren R. Hofstra, Stewart Bell Professor of History and director of the Community History Project at Shenandoah University, is the author of A Separate Place: The Formation of Clarke County, Virginia, editor of George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry, and coeditor of After the Backcountry: Rural Life in the Great Valley of Virginia, 1800-1900.