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Edward L. Ayers

Author of The Promise of the New South

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The Promise of the New South 180 copies, 1 review
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America,… 134 copies, 2 reviews
The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction 81 copies
What Caused the Civil War?: Reflections on the South and Southern History 49 copies
Southern Crossing: A History of the American South, 1877-1906 32 copies
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions 26 copies
The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - The… 22 copies
Thomson Advantage Books: American Passages: History of the United States,… 21 copies, 1 review
Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century… 18 copies
American Passages: A History of the American People, Volume 2: 1863 to… 11 copies
"A House Divided...": A Century of Great Civil War Quotations 10 copies
America's War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their… 8 copies
American Passages: A History of the U.S. (United States History) 6 copies
The Edge of the South : life in nineteenth-century Virginia 6 copies

America on the Eve of the Civil War 5 copies

Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration 5 copies

Thomson Advantage Books: American Passages: A History of the United… 2 copies

American Passages: A History in the United States, Volume I: To 1877 2 copies

Loyalty and America's Civil War 1 copy

Thomson Advantage Books: American Passages: A History of the United States… 1 copy

Two Communities in the Civil War (A Norton Casebook in History) 1 copy

Valley of the Shadow: The Eve of War, Two Communities in the American… 1 copy

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Major Problems in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era: Documents and… (Contributor) 43 copies

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Major Problems in American History

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