Wilfred M. McClay is Professor of History and the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College.  John D. McBride has more than fifty years experience in teaching US history. He earned a BA and an MA at Rice University (1968, 1971) and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (1977). After an interruption for the US Army Reserves, he and wife Mary Jane raised two children while working as dorm parents at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he served as head of the History Department and developed a two-year Western Civilization curriculum. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in both the Political Science and the History Departments. He worked as a volunteer instructor at Walker State Prison, Georgia's faith- and character-based prison. John enjoys using simulation games and debates and other group activities in his classes whenever possible. He is the author of Bloody Dawn: The Final Assault on the Alamo and other rules for reenacting battles with miniatures.