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