Expert Bio

Edward is the President of the University of Richmond and former Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia. His The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. And his In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003), won the 2004 Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Book in American History from Columbia University and the 2004 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.