{"id":1565,"date":"2013-09-11T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:35:41","slug":"lewis-walter-david-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"LEWIS, WALTER DAVID, 1931-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; June 24, 1931, Towanda, Pa. Parents&#8211; Gordon Cleon and Eleanor Esther (Tobias) Lewis. Married&#8211; Carolyn Wyatt Brown, June 12, 1954. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 1952, M.A., 1954; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1961. Taught, Hamilton College, 1954-57; Fellowship Coordinator, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1959-65; Instructor, \u00a0University of Delaware, 1959-61; Professor of History and\u00a0 director of the honors program in history, \u00a0State University of New York at Buffalo, 1965-71;\u00a0 Hudson Professor of History and Engineering,\u00a0Auburn University, 1971-2007.\u00a0Published articles in\u00a0many professional journals and anthologies.\u00a0Co-producer of the film, About Us; a Deep South Portrait, 1977. Member of the Society for the History of Technology; the Business History Conference; the G.A.Henty Society. Died September 29, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1982-1983; Directory of American Scholars, 1982; Contemporary Authors online; Auburn University website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early Commercial Aviation. Cambridge; Harvard Graduate School of Business, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Rickenbacker; An American Hero in the Twentieth Century.\u00a0 Baltimore; Johns Hopkins Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>From Newgate to Dannemora; the Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, from 1796-1948. Ithaca; Cornell University Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Iron and Steel in America. Greenville, Del.; Hagley Museum, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Rationale of Crime. Montclair, N.J.; Patterson Smith, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Airway to Everywhere; A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953. Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Delta; the History of an Airline. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Economic Change in the Civil War Era; Proceedings. Greenville, Del.; Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Mystique. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Walter David Lewis are held by the Special Collections\u00a0 and Archives Department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; June 24, 1931, Towanda, Pa. Parents&#8211; Gordon Cleon and Eleanor Esther (Tobias) Lewis. Married&#8211; Carolyn Wyatt Brown, June 12, 1954. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 1952, M.A., 1954; Cornell University, Ph.D., 1961. Taught, Hamilton College, 1954-57; Fellowship Coordinator, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1959-65; Instructor, \u00a0University of Delaware, 1959-61; Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}