… of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America … Book Talk: Ed Ayers, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America Thursday, November 16th, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm GLC … Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been …