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The Experience Of Liberal Education, Edward L. Ayers
The Experience Of Liberal Education, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Every college and university has built new capacity to deliver new experiences for students through study abroad, community service, career development, health and fitness, cultural understanding, or spiritual growth. They come to college to broaden their experience, and colleges and universities are the only places where people of all backgrounds, religions, ethnicities, classes, and politics come together to explore who they are and who they might become. Going to college is a defining time in their lives, and there is much more we can do to make it a liberating and transformative experience.
An Overview: The Difference Slavery Made: A Close Analysis Of Two American Communities, Edward L. Ayers
An Overview: The Difference Slavery Made: A Close Analysis Of Two American Communities, Edward L. Ayers
History Faculty Publications
Using digital media, we wanted to give readers full access to a scholarly argument, the historiography about it, and the evidence for it. Our early models of the article contained neat squares and lines and carefully arranged explanations of the links from one part to another. Through two sets of readings by peer reviewers and presentations to a range of audiences, we have revised our presentation and our argument while maintaining the original purpose of the article. This essay introduces the electronic article and explains its development, as well as our intentions for it.
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.