Wise guys: Ayers, Onuf and Balogh shed robes for radio

Wise guys: Ayers, Onuf and Balogh shed robes for radio

If you'd asked historians Brian Balogh, Peter Onuf, and Ed Ayers six years ago how they'd feel about becoming popular radio personalities, they would have laughed it off as a joke. Well, in fact, someone did ask, and they did laugh. Heartily.

At the time, all three were employed at the University of Virginia as accomplished colleagues who collectively had penned enough books to fill a small library and had garnered enough honors– academic and literary– to wallpaper any remaining walls in that library.

But host a radio show?

"I thought it was crazy," laughs Ayers, now president of the University of Richmond.

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