A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever
 
This class has been canceled due to the unavailability of the instructor.

Often called America's second revolution, the Civil War left a legacy of change unsurpassed by any other event in U.S. history. In many respects, a different country emerged from the conflict than the one that entered it. Join Professor Gerald Henig as he discusses the vast and profound transformations spawned by the Civil War, including the new methods for raising, administering, and financing armies; fighting on land, sea, and from the air; gathering intelligence; and providing health and medical care. He will focus on unprecedented innovations involving race relations, postal reform, transcontinental travel, western settlement, higher education and the beginnings of the National Park System.

Gerald S. Henig is emeritus professor of history at California State University, East Bay, where he is a veteran of forty years of teaching.

 Detail of Elihu Vedder's mural Government (1896), in the Library of Congress. The title figure bears a tablet inscribed with Lincoln's famous phrase.
One of the most decorated instructors on campus, he has received the Outstanding Professor Award and is a four-time winner of the Pi Kappa Delta Best Lecturer Award. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Jerry earned his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D. in American history from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written numerous articles on the political and military history of the Civil War, and is the author of Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland and co-author of Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America’s Bloodiest Conflict, which was a selection of the nationally prestigious History Book Club and the Military Book Club. In April 2007, the book was published in a paperback edition with a new title: A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever. In recent years, he has delivered numerous public lectures to a wide variety of audiences, including Civil War Roundtables, Lifelong Learning Institutes, public and private libraries, museums, historical societies, and community centers. In view of his outstanding record, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has honored Jerry with its Annual Alumni Achievement Award for 2008.
 
Advance registration required.
 
Dates: Thursdays, April 19 & 26
Times: 1:15 -2:30 PM
Location: Room M-117
Fee: $12 Ages 65+ | $20 Members | $25 Non-Members
Contact: Elisheva Salamo
(650) 223-8618
esalamo@paloaltojcc.org 





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