{"id":984,"date":"2016-02-17T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/remembering-the-emancipation-proclamation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:54:16","slug":"remembering-the-emancipation-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/remembering-the-emancipation-proclamation\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Emancipation Proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5159\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/edward-ayers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5159 lazyload\" title=\"edward-ayers\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/edward-ayers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"252\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 192px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 192\/252;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Edward Ayers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Edward Ayers, noted historian and president of the University of Richmond, will speak on \u201cVisualizing Emancipation\u201d Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center at Furman University.<\/p>\n<p>Ayers\u2019 lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the final event in a series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nation\u2019s leading scholars on the history of the American South, Ayers is the author of <em>The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction<\/em>, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.\u00a0 It was also named the best book on the history of the American South.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the author of <em>In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863<\/em>, which earned Ayers the 2004 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the 2004 Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Book in American History from Columbia University.\u00a0 He was named president of the University of Richmond in 2007<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom Stories: A 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Series\u201d began in the fall of 2012 and included lectures, workshops and community history projects to commemorate the 150<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The series is sponsored by Furman and the Upcountry History Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum, which sits on Heritage Green and promotes the history of the Upcountry\u2019s 15 counties, opened to the public in 2007.\u00a0 Its mission is to present and preserve the history of Upcountry South Carolina through education, research and service.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107 or Lloyd Benson at <a href=\"mailto:lloyd.benson@furman.edu\">lloyd.benson@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Ayers, noted historian and president of the University of Richmond, will speak on \u201cVisualizing Emancipation\u201d Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. in the Younts Conference Center at Furman. Ayers\u2019 lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the final event in a series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The series is sponsored by Furman and the Upcountry History Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}