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is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Assistant
Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the
history of the United States since 1865 survey course as well as modern
Virginia history and thesis seminars for history majors. He is the
author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in
the New South, published in the fall of 1999. He is the co-author
and assistant producer of a history of Virginia series for public
television, called The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History
Since the Civil War. Episode Three, Massive Resistance, was an Emmy
Nominee for 2000 from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Thomas is currently co-authoring
with Edward L. Ayers a fully electronic scholarly article for publication
in the American Historical Review, titled "Two American Communities
on the Eve of Civil War: An Experiment in Form and Analysis."
The article is based on their research in the award-winning Valley
of the Shadow project. Ayers, Thomas, and Anne S. Rubin shared the
Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysbug College
in recognition of the project's scholarly significance. He earned
his Masters and Ph.D. in History from the University of Virginia.
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The Civil War in the Life of
Two Communities
Wednesday-Sunday March
2-6, 2005
Southwestern Oklahoma State University Weatherford, OK
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This course examines the Civil War era in American history
and seeks to understand the war as a social as well as military
and political experience. Every aspect of the course is comparative,
presenting Northern and Southern life, people, events, and narratives.
The course concentrates on five major subjects: the election
of 1860 and the secession crisis, the civil war home front,
the experience of the common soldier, the African American experience,
and an in-depth examination of one major civil war campaign--the
Valley Campaign of 1864. The course will use the Valley of the
Shadow civil war archive, as well as other major online collections,
to provide primary source documents for classroom analysis.
University of Oklahoma undergraduates: This class qualifies
as upper division Gen Ed Western Civilization and Culture credit.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
* In
the Presence of Mine Enemies by Edward L. Ayers
(2003)
* The Confederate War by Gary Gallagher
(2000)
* Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
by Carol Reardon (1997)
* The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall
Jackson and the Americans by Charles Royster (1993)
* "The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis
of Two American Communities," American Historical
Review William G. Thomas, III and Edward L. Ayers (2003)
* Valley of the Shadow Project Electronic Archive
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