Peter N. Moore is the Joe B. Frantz Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moore received the George C. Rogers Jr. Award for the best book in South Carolina history in 2007 for World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750-1805 (also published by the University of South Carolina Press), and he was a finalist for the C. Vann Woodward Award for Best Dissertation in Southern History.