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b"Orville Vernon Burton is Creativity Professor of Humanities, Professor of History, Pan-African Studies, Sociology, and Computer Science at Clemson University, and the Director of the Clemson CyberInstitute.\\xa0\\n\\nBurton is a prolific author and scholar (twenty authored or edited books and more than two hundred articles); and author or director of numerous digital humanities projects.\\xa0 The Age of Lincoln (2007) won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction and was selected for Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, and Military Book Club.\\xa0 One reviewer proclaimed, \\u201cIf the Civil War era was America's \\u2018Iliad,\\u2019 then historian Orville Vernon Burton is our latest Homer.\\u201d\\xa0 The book was featured at sessions of the annual meetings of African American History and Life Association, the Social Science History Association, the Southern Intellectual History Circle, and the latter was the basis for a forum published in The Journal of the Historical Society. His In My Father\\u2019s House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985) was featured at sessions of the Southern Historical Association and the Social Science History Association annual meetings.\\xa0 The Age of Lincoln and In My Fathers\\u2019 House were nominated for Pulitzers.\\xa0 His most recent book, is Penn Center:\\xa0 A History Preserved (2014).\\n\\nBurton's research and teaching interests include the American South, especially race relations and community, and the intersection of humanities and social sciences. \\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nhttps://ageoflincoln.app.clemson.edu"