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Dr. Ronald L. Lewis
Contact: Voice: (304) 293-2421, ext. 5236 E-Mail: rlewis@wvu.edu Office Hours: Address: Website Profile: http://www.wvu.edu/~regional/four.htm
Title: Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American History
Education: Ph.D., 1974, University of Akron (American History) M.A., 1973, University of Akron (American History) BA, 1966, Ohio University (Political Science and Economics)
Teaching Fields At WVU: West Virginia; Appalachia; American Labor; Social History of the Coal Industry
Selected Bibliography: Lewis, Ronald L. 1998. Transformation of the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Lewis, Ronald L. and John C. Hennen, Jr., eds. 1996. West Virginia: Documents in the History of a Rural-Industrial State. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company. Lewis, Ronald L. and Philip S. Foner, eds. 1989. Black Workers: A Documentary History from Colonial Times to the Present. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. One vol. abridgement of eight vol. series. Lewis, Ronald L. 1987. Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. Lewis, Ronald L. 1978. Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Virginia and Maryland, 1715-1865. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company.
Research Interests: West Virginia and the Appalchian Region Industrialization and American Labor Social History of the Coal Industry Communities in Declining Coal Regions of the World Race-Ethnic Relations in Coal Field Communities
Current Research: British immigrants in nineteenth-century American coal fields Struggle for the control of natural resources in West Virginia and Appalachia |