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Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers
Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
The American Civil War, Emancipation, And Reconstruction On The World Stage, Edward L. Ayers
The American Civil War, Emancipation, And Reconstruction On The World Stage, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Americans demanded the world's attention during their Civil War and Reconstruction. Newspapers around the globe reported the latest news from the United States as one vast battle followed another, as the largest system of slavery in the world crashed into pieces, as American democracy expanded to include people who had been enslaved only a few years before.
Generations Later: Has Once-Remote Promise Of Freedom Been Fulfilled?, Edward L. Ayers
Generations Later: Has Once-Remote Promise Of Freedom Been Fulfilled?, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Emancipation began with a flickering promise, burned intensely for a few years during Reconstruction, and then smoldered for a century. Equality and justice have come into view for most African-Americans only in the past two generations. For many descendants of slavery, those essential rights of a free people are still hard to see.