The Heart of American History

By Edward L. Ayers

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Issue: Autumn 1989 / Volume 65/4
Published: December 11, 2003
Edward L. Ayers

Edward L. Ayers is an American historian and the ninth president of the University of Richmond.  His book In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864 won the Bancroft Prize in 2004.

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