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A Historian In Cyberspace, Edward L. Ayers
A Historian In Cyberspace, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
I am writing here about an American Place, but not about Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, or about the South, to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I am writing about that new American place we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel, cyberspace.
The Great Valley And The Meaning Of The Civil War, Edward L. Ayers
The Great Valley And The Meaning Of The Civil War, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
To understand the coming of the Civil War, then, we need to pick up the story before Fort Sumter and to carry it deeper than national events. We need to understand both the advocated of conflict and those who sought to avoid it regardless of the cost. We need to understand the communities people fought to defend, the institutions that held them together and that drove them apart.
Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers
Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
I write not of Thomas Jefferson's town, where I live, nor of the American South to which I have devoted my working life. Rather, I write of a new American place, one we cannot see but whose effects we increasingly feel: "cyberspace." That place, simultaneously metaphorical and tangible, has touched every part of the United States. Information surges along networks of copper and glass, weaving ever tighter webs across the country and the world.