Edward L. Ayers is president and professor of history at the University of Richmond. An historian of the American South, Ayers has written and edited ten books, including The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992) and In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003) winner of the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes. An early proponent of digital history with “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Ayers continues to work in the field, focusing on visualization of social processes across space and time.

Lecture topics:

• What Lincoln Was Up Against
• Seeing History: Experiments in Digital History

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