Historian Edward Ayers will narrate the evolution of southern history from the founding of the nation to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the South. Including indigenous, white, black, and immigrant people in the story, Ayers uses unique color maps created with sophisticated tools to interpret massive data sets from a humanistic perspective, providing a view of movement within the South we have not seen before. His latest book is entitled Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790–2020.

Edward Ayers has been named National Professor of the Year, received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama at the White House, won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Lincolns prizes in American history, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, served as president of the Organization of American Historians, and worked as the founding chair of the board of the American Civil War Museum. He is executive director of New American History, dedicated to sharing innovative work in words, maps, audio, and video with broad audiences and the nation’s schools. He is Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and president emeritus at the University of Richmond as well as former Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia.

Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 7:00 pm (EST)

Attend from anywhere via Zoom; Q&A session will follow.

This is a Pay What You Can event. Your donation of any amount will go directly toward supporting this Germanna Foundation program and more programs like it as well as research, archaeology, and preservation of our historic sites. Thank you!

If you would like to sponsor the lecture, please make a donation with one of the below levels. We will recognize sponsors at the beginning and end of the program.

$100 Iron Horseshoe Sponsor
$250 Silver Horseshoe Sponsor
$500 Knight of the Golden Horseshoe Title Sponsor

Edward Ayers: Migrations of the American South, 18th c. to the Present

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