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EWING LECTURE SERIES

As Historians look into their field by examining past events, so do the students and professors at Lycoming College. Each year, the professors of history at Lycoming look to recognize one of their colleagues and friends by presenting the Robert H. Ewing Lecture Series.

The Ewing Lecture Series was established in 1973 when Robert H. Ewing, of whom the Series is named, retired after 27 years at Lycoming College. A revered teacher and friend of the college, his life was characterized by a deep religious faith, a passion for history and a strong devotion to a liberal arts education. These qualities touched the lives of all who came in contact with him and led his many friends to contribute to the Ewing Fund to establish this Series.

This year’s lecture will be held on March 29th 2006, at 7:30pm. John J. Contreni will be presenting “What Should We Know about the Crusades?”

Past lecturers include:

• 1974	Professor Roland Bainton “Erasmus and the Reformation”
• 1975	Professor John Shy "Hearts and Minds in the American Revolution: The Social Impact of the Revolutionary War"
• 1976	Professor William Lee Rose “Domesticating Domestic Slavery”
• 1977	Professor Oron Hale “Administration of Occupied Territories After World War II”
• 1978	Professor Michael Kammen “The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination”
• 1979	Professor Thomas Barnes “Legal History: Does It Have a Past? Does It Have a Future?”
• 1980	Professor Hans Hillerbrand “The Reformation and the Peasants’ War: Reflections on Social History”
• 1981	Professor Edmund S. Morgan “The Invincible Yeoman Farmer”
• 1982	Professor Harold E. Deutsch “The Influence of Ultra in World War II”
• 1983	Professor Robert T. Handy “Common Themes in the Diverse History of Religious Groups in America”
• 1984	Professor Carl E. Prince “The Great Riot Year: Jacksonian Democracy and Patterns of American Violence in 1834”
• 1985	Professor Michael Vlahos “Strategy and National Culture”
• 1986	Professor James H. Smylie “Jefferson’s Statue for Religious Liberty: Historical, Social, and Constitutional Contexts”
• 1987	Professor Edward Pessen “George Washington Against the Cold War”
• 1988	Professor Peter Paret “The History of War as Part of General History”
• 1989	Professor John Wilson “Original Intent and the Church State Problem”
• 1990	Professor John M. Murrin “Baseball, Football and Nineteenth Century American Political Culture”
• 1991	Professor Martin E. Marty “The Twentieth Century American Religious Scene: Important Conflicts/Few Dead Bodies”
• 1992	Professor Roland G. Foerster “Defense and Sovereignty: Ten Theses on German Rearmament after the Second World War, 1945-1950”
• 1993	Professor Mary Beth Norton “The Curious Incident of the Gossiping Ladies of New Haven: Gender and Society in Seventeenth-Century America”
• 1994	Professor Barbara Sicherman “The Education of Jane Addams”
• 1995	Professor Joan Hoff “Women and the Constitution”
• 1996	Professor Henry Friedlander “The Origins of Nazi Genocide”
• 1997	Professor Michael Burlingame “Emphatically the Black Man’s President: Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass”
• 1998	Professor James T. Patterson “America’s Grand Expectations After World War II”
• 1999	Professor John Lewis Gaddis “We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History in light of Recent Revelations from Soviet Archives”
• 2000	Professor Ira Berlin “The Role of Memory in Writing the History of Slavery”
• 2001	Professor Robert H. Zieger “Race and Labor in 20th Century America”
• 2002	Dr. William H. Flayhart III ‘66 “Perils of the Atlantic: Ship Disasters of the 19th Century”
• 2003	Dr. Mark E. Neely Jr. “The American Civil War: Foretaste of Terror?”
• 2004	Dr. David Nasaw “Andrew Carnegie: Marking Sense of Making Millions”
• 2005	Dr. Gabor Boritt “The Most Important Election in American History?”

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