Ronald L. Lewis
Professor
Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair
220C Woodburn Hall
293-2421 x5236
Ronald.Lewis@mail.wvu.edu
Teaching Fields:
Appalachia; U.S. Social/Labor History
Research Fields:
Social history of industrialization; comparative coalfields; Appalachian region; British immigration to the U.S.
Books:
Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change, 1880-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
The Black Coal Miner in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
The Black Worker: From Colonial Times to the Present. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. One volume abridgement, and an 8 volume series of the same title (1978-1984). Co-edited with Philip S. Foner.
Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Communities and Economic Change, 1840-1940. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2002. Co-edited with Ken Fones-Wolf.
Current Research Project:
A history of Welsh coal miners in the United States.
