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A four-year cataclysm that left in its wake more than
six hundred thousand dead and two million refugees—and
destroyed legal slavery in the United States—the Civil
War sparked some of the most heroic and achingly dark
moments in American history. Join Gilder Lehrman and
Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College in a study of
the war’s strategy, tactics, and memory, and consider
the legacy of the Civil War 150 years after its end.
COURSE CONTENT
• Seven seminar sessions with
Professor Allen C. Guelzo
• Four reading discussions with
scholar Brian Jordan
• A virtual tour of Gettysburg battlefield
• Supplementary materials, including a
primary source and digital resource archive compiled by Professor Guelzo
• A
certificate of completion for 15 hours of professional development credit
Readings: The optional readings for
each seminar session are listed in the “Resources” tab
on the course page. Please note that you are not
required to read or purchase any print materials.
Quizzes are based on the content of the seminar
recordings rather than the readings.
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LEAD SCHOLAR
Allen C.
Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War
Era and Director of Civil War Era Studies at
Gettysburg College. He is the author of many books,
among them
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, which
won the Lincoln Prize in 2000, and
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of
Slavery in America, which won the Lincoln Prize in 2005. His latest
work,
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
(2013), spent eight weeks on the
New York Times
best-seller list and also won the Lincoln Prize—making
Professor Guelzo the award’s only three-time honoree.
His articles and essays have appeared in scholarly
journals and the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the
Christian Science Monitor, the
Washington Post, and the
Los Angeles Times, and he has been featured
on NPR, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic
Channel, Brian Lamb’s BookNotes, and
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
DISCUSSION LEADER: Dr. Brian Jordan
Brian Jordan is a Lecturer in Civil War Era
Studies at Gettysburg College. He earned a BA in
History and Civil War Era Studies from Gettysburg
College and an MA, M.Phil, and PhD (with distinction)
from Yale University. He is the author of
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending
Civil War, and his essays have been featured in several
scholarly journals and magazines, including Civil War
History, and the Journal of the Civil War Era.
