Inland Empire

Civil War Round Table

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President Hoover announces the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table 2025 Leadership Team

Election results for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table Officers and Board of Directors at Large election for 2025.

Thank you for building our leadership team for 2025. I am pleased to announce the following results.

Officers

President Chris Goldfarb

Vice-President Mike Hoover

Secretary Mike Hoover

Treasurer Steve Madden

Program Director Kyle McStay

Board of Directors at Large

Jefferey Blansett

Brian Cieslak

Gordon Gidlund

Mark Radeleff

Jim Shuttleworth

Heather St. Clair

I look forward to collaborating with the new leadership team to further develop the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table and fulfill our mission.

We will also be adding two new members to our Advisory team

Advisory Group

Jim Aspaas

Hal Cardwell

Mary Martin

Our next live presentation,

Monday, December 16 at 6:15 Pacific time.

Guest Speaker Documentary filmmaker and author Carole Adrienne of Philadelphia will discuss Civil War Medicine.

Adrienne’s presentation "Civil War Medicine: The Great Innovators" will be based on her book Healing a Divided Nation: How the American Civil War Revolutionized Western Medicine (Pegasus Publishing, 2022). "Healing a Divided Nation is a comprehensive look at medicine during the Civil War, which brought American medicine 'out of the medical Middle Ages.' This book tells the stories of the innovations, personnel, and legacy that is Civil War Medicine."

Here is the Zoom link.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89117467102?pwd=5xIBIsYifD5SlTtlPgZfwb8hCzhLUN.1

Trailer to Carole Adrienne's Civil War Medicine documentary

If you missed the live presentation, view the recording by clicking the link below.

drive.google.com/file/d/11USHb4n7HUqd3xtDSn98lbdD5aIJetUG/view?usp=sharing

Monday, November 18

Guest Speaker Nicole Etcheson, Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University and author, presented Bleeding Kansas—The Crisis of the 1850s, based on her book "Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era."

Recap: In the summer of 1856, fighting between free-state and pro-slavery settlers broke out in Kansas Territory. This talk explores the cause of the violence in the conflict between freedom and slavery in the territory and its impact in bringing on the Civil War.