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University of Richmond President, Ed Ayers, continues to catapult history into the digital era. The author of ten books on the American South, he has been a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist,won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history, and the Beveridge Prize for the best book in English on the history of the Americas.On his public radio show and podcast, BackStory, Ed and his co-hosts tear a topic from the headlines and invite fellow scholars, newsmakers, and listeners to plumb its historical depths. An equally accomplished classroom teacher, Ed was voted 2003's National Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As an innovator and scholar he recognizes the vital link between past and present for millions of students, educators, and researchers. he is working closely with the school's Digital Scholarship Lab on a multimedia atlas of American history, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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