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Lecture: How the Civil War Changed America Forever

April 12, 2011, marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, a conflict that left a legacy of change unsurpassed by any other event in U.S. history.

Join Dr. Gerald S. Henig, professor emeritus of history at CSU East Bay, as he discusses the vast and profound transformations spawned by this War, of which young Miss Lucy Buck wrote so prophetically in her wartime diary: “We shall never any of us be the same as we have been.”

This educational lecture is sponsored by the San Ramon Library Foundation, and is free and open to all.

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