Inland Empire
Civil War Round Table
A 501(c)3 registered non-profit organization.
EIN: 36-5074542. Donations are tax-deductible
Winner of the First International CWRT Congress
PHOENIX AWARD
The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table was instrumental in forming the
African Americans in the Civil War Era Round Table.
Its website is https://www.aacwert.org
If you missed the "Civil War Railroads," program from Monday, August 19th
Guest Speaker, Robert (Bert) M. Dunkerly. Historian, Teacher, Park Ranger, and a past president of the Richmond Civil War Round Table.
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Our first presentation in September
From Unwanted to Indispensable: The Real Nurses of the Civil War will be on Zoom Monday, September 16th, at 6:15 Pacific Time.
Guest Speaker, Pamela D. Toler, Ph.D., author, speaker, and historian,
Use the link below to view it.
From Unwanted to Indispensable: The Real Nurses of the Civil War—Pamela Toler tells the story of how thousands of women with little or no experience with nursing volunteered to serve their country during the Civil War, taught themselves how to do the job under adverse circumstance (including hostility from the surgeons with whom they worked), and created a profession that did not exist before the war.
Armed with a PhD in history, a well-thumbed deck of library cards, and a large bump of curiosity, author, speaker, and historian, Pamela D. Toler translates history for a popular audience. She goes beyond the familiar boundaries of American history to tell stories from other parts of the world as well as history from the other side of the battlefield, the gender line, or the color bar. Toler is the author of ten books of popular history for children and adults, including Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War and Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Her newest book, The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany is due out May, 2024.. Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Aramco World, History Channel Magazine, MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and Time.com and been featured in National Geographic.
Our Hybrid, In-Person and on Zoom presentation in September
The March Toward Civil War in Southern California
Tuesday, September 17th, at 6:15 Pacific Time.
Guest Speaker, Maria Carrillo Colato
Special Collections Manager at A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine.
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From its admission into the Union as free state in 1850, through the start of the conflict, California factored greatly into the march toward civil war. Controlled politically by Southern Democrats and far from the center of power in the east, the Golden State became a beacon for the expansion of Southern culture in the antebellum period. In Southern California, where a unique Californio culture reigned, migrants from the American South formed strategic alliances with southern Californians to stake their claim as leaders of the new sociopolitical order. Learn how the unlikely alliance between Southerners and Californios brought California to the brink of disunion as the war loomed on the horizon.
Maria Carrillo Colato is Special Collections Manager at A.K. Smiley Public Library and the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History from California State University, Fullerton and a Master of Arts from the University of California, Riverside in History with an emphasis in Public History. She is currently a doctoral candidate at UC Riverside focusing on California in the Civil War-era. As a graduate student, Maria completed an internship with the National Park Service at Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Dover, Tennessee, where she had the privilege of living in the Surrender House, where Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, the terms of which earned the latter the famous “Unconditional Surrender” moniker. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Civil War History and as Archivist of the Board of Directors of the Society for Women and the Civil War. She has coauthored Images of America: Early Redlands and Redlands in World War I, and has worked in museums and special collections in Southern California for nearly 20 years
