Edward L. Ayers

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Edward Lynn Ayers (* 1953 in North Carolina ) is an American historian and professor of humanities at the University of Richmond . He is an expert on the history of the southern states , the American Civil War and historical information technology (digital history) .

Ayers earned a BA from the University of Tennessee in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University , each in American Studies . At Yale he studied with C. Vann Woodward and David Brion Davis, among others . In 1980 Ayers received his first professorship (assistant professor) at the University of Virginia , in 1986 he became an associate professor and in 1992 he was given a full professorship there. From 2001 he was also Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Tennessee before moving to the University of Richmond as President in 2007 . In 2015 he resigned as president of the university, but kept his professorship.

In 1995 Ayers was a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Groningen , and in 2001 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2004 he received for In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-63 both the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Bancroft Prize of Columbia University . In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from US President Barack Obama . In 2017/2018, Ayers was President of the Organization of American Historians , an association of historians who study US history. For 2018 he was awarded the Lincoln Prize for The Thin Light of Freedom .

Monographs

  • Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South (Oxford University Press, 1984; paperback edition, 1986)
  • The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia , edited with John C. Willis (University Press of Virginia, 1991)
  • The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1993; abridged edition, 1995; 15th Anniversary Edition, 2007)
  • All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions , co-editor and co-author, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
  • The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction , edited with Bradley Mittendorf (Oxford University Press, 1997)
  • The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The Eve of War , CD-ROM and book, co-authored with Anne S. Rubin (WW Norton and Company, 2000)
  • In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 , (WW Norton, 2003)
  • What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History , (WW Norton, 2005)
  • The Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration , edited with Gary Gallagher and Andrew Torget (University of Virginia Press, 2006)
  • America on the Eve of the Civil War , edited with Carolyn R. Martin (University of Virginia Press, 2010)
  • America's War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries , edited for the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Library Association
  • The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America (WW Norton, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
  2. ^ Albert J. Beveridge Award Recipients. In: historians.org. June 30, 2017, accessed September 9, 2017 .
  3. ^ The Bancroft Prizes: Previous Awards - Columbia University Libraries. In: library.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Edward L. Ayers. In: neh.gov. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Ayers, Edward L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ayers, Edward Lynn; Ayers, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH North Carolina