Warwick's Author Series: An Evening with Nathaniel Philbrick

The USD College of Arts and Sciences and Humanities Center, along with Warwick's bookstore, will host National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick to discuss his latest book, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.

The Rush reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States — and lit the long fuse to the Civil War. It follows the gold as it moves from riverbed to countinghouse to the halls of power, revealing how vigilantism hardened into law and how debates over slavery in the West tipped the balance in Washington. The result is a clear, human story of how a scramble for wealth reshaped ideas of freedom, labor and belonging — and how California's rise helped push a fractured nation toward war. It’s sweeping, brilliantly researched, and offers a new way to look at how the Gold Rush fits within the overall story of America.

Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of the New York Times bestsellers: In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, The Last Stand, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution among others. He is the winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, George Washington Prize, New England Book Award, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize, Albion-Monroe Award from the National Maritime Historical Society.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit Warwick's website.

Free admission for USD students and staff by registering with your USD email and promo code. The code will be announced in the Humanities Center newsletter or you may contact us directly at humanitiescenter@sandiego.edu