Author: Edward L. Ayers

Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do th...

Edward L. Ayers's The Promise of the New South was a widely heralded history of the American South between the 1870s and the 1900s. Southern Juncti...

The Southern past has proven to be fertile ground for great works of history. Peculiarities of tragic proportions—a system of slavery flourishing i...

With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as ho...

With so many of our histories falling into dour critique or blatant celebration, here is a welcome departure: a book that offers hope as well as ho...

At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the ...

Virginia’s Great Valley, prosperous in peace, invited destruction in war. Voracious Union and Confederate armies ground up the valley, consuming cr...