Dr. Henig is emeritus professor of history at California State University, East Bay, where he has taught for 39 years. He has written numerous articles on the political and military history of the Civil War and is the author of Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1973) and co-author with Eric Niderost of Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001), now available in paperback under a new title: A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever.
