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Article: What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History
- Article from:
- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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CopyrightCopyright University of Virginia Fall 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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UVA FACULTY BOOKS What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History, by Edward L. Ayers. Norton, June 2005. $24.95
Ayers, the dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, has rightly earned a reputation as a first-rate scholar and lecturer, both of which skills are amply demonstrated in this collection of essays on the craft of the historian. Ayers taps into his own roots as a southerner in the engaging opening essay, "Pieces of a Southern Autobiography," where he ruminates on his own intellectual awakening to the challenges of writing southern history as a southerner (he ...