Edward L. Ayers is Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. Andrew J. Torget is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Virginia and Project Director of the Valley of the Shadow Project at the Virginia Center for Digital History.
"Crucible of the Civil War presents a fine collection of essays by
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social, economic, and religious life in Virginia, this book is a
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of the Civil War far beyond the battlefields."--George C. Rable,
University of Alabama, author of the Lincoln Prize-winning
Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
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Historical Review"
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diverse ways Virginians experienced the Civil War era."-- "Civil
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