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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Ed Ayers: The Civil War at Eye Level, April 8, 2004
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 21:55:53 -0400 (EDT)

Off topic somewhat if internetworkers has a topic ;-> Ayers digital
history work is very very impressive.
Short notice. Great speaker. Anyone familiar with Ayer's Valley of the
Shadow Project http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ and the Virginia Center
for Digital History will want to be there to hear Ed Ayers.
Please pass this on to interested folks and lists.
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The Center for the Study of the American South
cordially invites you to a free public lecture

"THE CIVIL WAR AT EYE LEVEL"

with
Bancroft Prize Winner
and
Carnegie Foundation 2003 US Doctoral and Research University Professor
of the Year

Edward L. Ayers
Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History
University of Virginia

Thursday, April 8, 2004
-- 2:30 p.m. --
Toy Lounge in Dey Hall
UNC Campus

Event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
For parking information, please go to:
http://www.unc.edu/visitors/parking.html

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Edward Ayers is the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences and the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the
University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1980. He has won
several teaching awards, including the state-level Outstanding
Faculty Award, and, most recently, the US Professor of the Year
Award for doctoral and research universities, awarded by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Ayers has written and edited eight books. The Promise of the New
South: Life After Reconstruction (1992) was a finalist for both the
National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is the creator of
"The Valley of the Shadow Project: Two Communities in the American
Civil War." The World Wide Web version of the project has been
widely recognized and is the most heavily trafficked Civil War site
on the web. See it at: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/. A book
based on the Valley Project, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in
the Heart of America 1859-1863, was published fall 2003 and received
the 2004 Bancroft Prize for distinguished work in American History.

Ayers received a presidential appointment to the National Council on
the Humanities, has served as a Fulbright professor in the
Netherlands, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.

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This is the latest in the "Centering the South" Speakers Series,
sponsored by UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. This
lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of History. For more
information, please go to:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/csas/centering/index.html, or call 962-5665.
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Center for the Study of the American South
CB# 9127, 411 Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
Direct: 919-962-5665
Fax: 919-962-4433








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