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Edward Ayers, Dean of the College and Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, spoke about his book What Caused The Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Sout…

Professor Ayers talked about the creation and distribution of knowledge in today’s digital environment. Edward L. Ayers, dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the U…

The first Capital Book Festival was hosted by the Fairfax County Public Library Foundation in its tenth anniversary year. On a panel titled The Civil War: Blacks and Whites, Soldiers and Ge…

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia hosted a panel discussion where historians talked about the merits of a federal law requiring Civil War battlefields to incorporate exhibi…

Ed Ayers, Historian with the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, discussed the Revolutionary War and, specifically, Yorktown. Telephone lines were opened for audience comments. Washington Journal…

The day after the prize presentation, some of the winners of the Lincoln Prize participated in a panel discussion on the Civil War. Participants included Professor Weigley who won first plac…

James Robertson talked about his book, Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, the Legend published by Macmillan General Reference. The book is a biography in which the author traces the mo…