Non-profit for lifelong learners
$39.00
There’s no shortage of Civil War books that discuss mortality due to bullets and diseases, but few explore the postwar lives of wounded warriors. This course, based on the instructor’s new book Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War, follows the lives of two Union veterans, one African American, the other an Irish immigrant, who suffered grievous wounds and received the Medal of Honor. Though both went on to work, marry, and have children, the war changed their bodies and their relationships with families and communities, requiring them to construct new identities while living with the trauma of the battlefield.
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| Class Code | 17-2025 |
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| Teacher | ROBERT D. HICKS, Ph. D. |
| Teacher Bio | Ph.D: Senior consulting scholar for the College of Physicians Philadelphia, Former Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library at the College |
| Day of the Week | Saturday |
| Start Date | Saturday, 10/11 |
| Time | 10 to 11:30 a.m. |
| Location | Room 104, Cheltenham High School |
There’s no shortage of Civil War books that discuss mortality due to bullets and diseases, but few explore the postwar lives of wounded warriors. This course, based on the instructor’s new book Wounded for Life: Seven Union Veterans of the Civil War, follows the lives of two Union veterans, one African American, the other an Irish immigrant, who suffered grievous wounds and received the Medal of Honor. Though both went on to work, marry, and have children, the war changed their bodies and their relationships with families and communities, requiring them to construct new identities while living with the trauma of the battlefield.
