What would you most like to know about America's civil war?
What do you think you already know?
Willing to be surprised?
Guests:
Ed Ayers, PhD - Author of In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, (W.W. Norton); What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History, (W.W. Norton); and America's War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, (co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011). Co-host of the syndicated public radio program BackStory with the American History Guys. President, University of Richmond.
Ted Delaney, PhD - Chair of the Department of History and the Harry E. and Mary Jayne W. Redenbaugh Term Professor at Washington and Lee University.