Warwick, R.I. – March 24, 2011: The Community College of Rhode Island will present a lecture titled, “American Civil War Sesquicentennial: CCRI Commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Civil War” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12 in Room 4080 at the Knight Campus in Warwick. The lecture, which takes place during CCRI’s All College Week celebration, is free and open to the public.
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 as Confederate batteries located along the shoreline in Charleston, S.C. opened fire on Union soldiers stationed at Fort Sumter, an island fortress located in the middle of Charleston harbor. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of this event, which began the deadliest war in American history, Professor Jack Every, Ph.D. of the Department of Social Sciences, and Kathy Blessing, reference librarian at the Flanagan Campus, will give two presentations. Professor Every’s presentation will cover the origins of the war and Professor Blessing’s presentation will focus on locating the records of Rhode Island soldiers who fought in the war.
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Professor Every teaches American history at the Knight Campus in Warwick, and his area of scholarly concentration is the Civil War era. A graduate of CCRI, he went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rhode Island, a master’s degree from the University of Connecticut and a doctorate in history from Boston College. He began his teaching tenure at CCRI in 2000.
Kathy Blessing is a librarian and an associate professor at the Flanagan Campus in Lincoln. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhode Island College and a graduate degree in library science from the University of Rhode Island. Based on her work with the letters of Pvt. Thomas Armstrong of the Mass. 30th Infantry Regiment, she was selected to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop, “War, Death, and Remembrance: The Memory and Commemoration of the American Civil War,” at the Oxford Campus of the University of Mississippi in 2007.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England’s largest community college, has full-service campuses in Warwick, Lincoln, Providence and Newport and operates satellites in Downcity Providence and Westerly. CCRI enrolls an average of nearly 18,000 students annually in credit courses and thousands more in noncredit and workforce training classes and programs.
