BackStory

Meet The Guys

18th Century Guy Peter Onuf, during a broadcast of BackStory, at the Va Foundation for the Humanities Studio in Charlottesville, June 2009

Peter Onuf (18th Century Guy) is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author/editor of eleven books, including most recently Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War.

19th Century Guy Ed Ayers, during a broadcast of BackStory, at the Va Foundation for the Humanities Studio in Charlottesville, June 2009

Ed Ayers (19th Century Guy) is President of the University of Richmond. Previously, he served as Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. The author/editor of ten books (including the Bancroft Prize-winning In the Presence of Mine Enemies), Ed also directed the online history project The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War.

20th Century Guy Brian Balogh during a broadcast of BackStory, at the Va Foundation for the Humanities Studio in Charlottesville, June 2009

Brian Balogh (20th Century Guy) is a  Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Director of the Fellowship Program at Governing America in a Global Era Program at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. His third book, A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America, was published in 2009.

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