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    American Visions

    Edward L. Ayers

    A revealing history of the formative period when voices of dissent and innovation defied power and created visions of America still resonant today

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    Two Communities in the Civil War

    Edward L. Ayers

    With cutting-edge technology that makes full use of both a multi-platform CD-ROM and the Web, The Valley of the Shadow allows readers to navigate the past through Civil War letters…

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    The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition

    Edward L. Ayers

    Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts. Ayers takes us from remote Southern towns…

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    Vengeance and Justice

    Exploring the major elements of southern crime and punishment at a time that saw the formation of the fundamental patterns of class and race, Ayers studies the inner workings of…

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    Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020

    Edward L. Ayers

    Taking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of America to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of…

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    In the Presence of Mine Enemies the Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864

    Edward L. Ayers

    Edward Ayers gives us the American Civil War on an intimate scale, conveying - through those who sacrificed, fought and died - the coming of war to the borderlands of…

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    What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History

    Edward L. Ayers

    Containing essays on the American Civil War, this work explores the sources of the nation’s and the author’s own history. It offers a fresh perspective on the United States’ central…

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    American Visions

    Edward L. Ayers

    A leading historian's absorbing narrative of America's formative period, when voices of dissent and innovation challenged the nation

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    The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

    Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

    Amid the devastation of war rise the first stirrings of freedom in this absorbing, ground-level narrative by an acclaimed historian.

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    The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

    Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond)

    Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective.

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    Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877-1906

    Edward L. Ayers (Professor of History, University of Virginia)

    An abridgement of Ayers’s The Promise of the New South. It offers a glimpse into a society undergoing the sudden confrontation with the promises, costs, and consequences of modern life.

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    The Swing Years

    Burt Korall,Edward L. Ayers

    A wide-ranging history of the American South in the aftermath of the Civil War, describing the political events of the period. It demonstrates how white Southerners systematically excluded blacks from…

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    America on the Eve of the Civil War

    Considers the key questions America faced on the eve of the Civil War: What factors fuelled booming national expansion and economic growth, and what roles did they play in the…

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    The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

    This is a collection of the fiction and nonfiction produced in the South over the last 200 years. The sections of the book - The Old South, The Civil War…

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    America on the Eve of the Civil War

    Here is an opportunity to draw on a lively exchange between a substantial number of knowledgeable and entertaining scholars.–James Oliver Horton, author of Landmarks of African American History

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    The Field of Honor: Essays on Southern Character and American Identity

    Defined chiefly as reputation or public esteem, honor has penetrated virtually every aspect of southern ethics and behaviour, including race, gender, law, education, religion, and violence. The Field of Honor…

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    Oh, Shenandoah: Paintings of the Historic Valley and River

    Andre Kushnir

    The painter Andrei Kushnir has spent years travelling throughout every corner of the Shenandoah Valley, capturing its myriad landscapes and architectural features. The paintings collected here highlight Kushnir’s rare ability…

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    The Illimitable Freedom of the Human Mind: Thomas Jefferson’s Idea of a University

    Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy,Howard Morhaim,Edward L. Ayers

    Selected as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 Offers a twin biography of Thomas Jefferson in retirement and of the University of Virginia in its earliest years…

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    America’s War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries

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    America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emanicipation on Their 150th Anniversaries is co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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    Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration

    Offers a portrait of Virginia’s wartime economic, political, and social institutions. This work includes essays that examine such concerns as the war’s effect on slavery in the state, the wartime…

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    Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration

    Offers an illuminating portrait of the state’s wartime economic, political, and social institutions. This title examines such concerns as the Civil War’s effect on slavery in the state, the wartime…

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    American Passages: A History of the United States

    David Oshinsky,Edward L. Ayers,Jean R. Soderlund,Lewis Gould

    With InfoTrac access and American journey.

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    American Passages: A History of the American People

    Edward L. Ayers,Lewis L. Gould,David M. Oshinsky

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    The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward

    C. Vann Woodward

    The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward focuses on lectures Woodward delivered in the mid-twentieth century that reflect his life-long interest in exploring the contours and limits of liberalism during…

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    Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers

    Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities is an edited collection of 24 articles that aims to introduce faculty, administrators, and staff to ways in which digital techniques from the…

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    All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions

    Edward L. Ayers,Patricia Nelson Limerick,Stephen Nissenbaum (Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, USA),Peter S. Onuf

    Exploring the cncept of region in America, this study questions widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another, and explains why those differences continue to flourish…

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    American Passages, Volume 2: A History of the United States: Since 1865

    Associate Professor of History Edward L Ayers,Lewis L Gould,David M Oshinsky,Associate Professor of History Jean R Soderlund (University of Maryland)

    With a unique attention to time as the defining nature of history, AMERICAN PASSAGES offers students a view of American history as a complete, compelling narrative. AMERICAN PASSAGES emphasizes the…

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    Historians in Service of a Better South: Essays in Honor of Paul Gaston

    Andrew H. Myers,Edward L. Ayers,Gregg L. Michel,James H. Hershman

    Professor Paul Gaston’s legacy of service includes his role as a mentor of historians. He oversaw more than two dozen dissertations at UVA from 1957 to 2000. These illuminated important…

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    C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics

    Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy. In this collection of essays, leading historians examine his writings…

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    Final Resting Places

    David W. Blight, Edward L. Ayers, William Columbus Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Barbara Gannon, Hilary Green, Anna Gibson Holloway, Caroline E. Janney

    Brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation - and…

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    Final Resting Places

    David W. Blight, Edward L. Ayers, William Columbus Davis, Douglas R. Egerton, Barbara Gannon, Hilary Green, Anna Gibson Holloway, Caroline E. Janney

    Brings together some of the most important and innovative scholars of the Civil War era to reflect on what death and memorialization meant to the Civil War generation - and…

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    Shapers of Southern History: Autobiographical Reflections

    Gathers personal recollections by fifteen eminent historians of the American South. Coming from distinctive backgrounds, travelling diverse career paths, and practicing different kinds of history, the contributors exemplify the field’s…

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