Gerald S. Henig

Gerald S. Henig is professor emeritus of history who has been collecting unique facts to inspire his students for over four decades. He taught at California State University, East Bay, where he received the Outstanding Professor Award and won the Pi Kappa Delta Best Lecturer Award an unprecedented four times.

As the host of the television series Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction and author of two books on America’s Civil War, he is known for bringing entertainment to education.

His previous titles include Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland and Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America’s Bloodiest Conflict, which was an alternate selection of the History Book Club. He has also published dozens of articles on American political, social, and military history.

Henig is an avid jogger, reader, and traveler, but what he loves most is spending time with his grandchildren. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.