Annual Ewing Lecture at Lycoming College

University of Florida history professor Dr. Robert Zieger will give the annual Ewing Lecture at Lycoming College on "Race and Labor in 20^th Century America." The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19 in the Barclay Lecture Hall (room G-11) in the Heim Building.

Zieger is the author of nine books, including America’s Great War: World War I and the American Experience (2000), Southern Labor in Transition (1997), and Republicans and Labor (1969). He has also had articles published in the Journal of American History, American Labor Leaders and Labor History, among others.

His awards include the Department of History John Mahon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, the Rockefeller Foundation travel grant, and the North Central Florida Central Labor Council Special Recognition Award. He won the Philip A. Taft Award for the best book in labor history in 1984 and 1995, the only author to win the award twice.

Zieger received his bachelor's degree from Montclair State College in New Jersey, his master's degree from the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He has been teaching at the University of Florida since 1986.

Zieger is a member of his own union: the United Faculties of Florida, and is its delegate to the North Central Florida Central Labor Council.

The Robert H. Ewing Endowed Lectureship was established in 1973 to honor the late Professor Robert H. Ewing, who taught history for 27 years at Lycoming College. The lecture series brings a noted historian to Lycoming College each year. Ewing died in 1991.

Admission is free and the public is invited.

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