History endowment hosts campus lecture, workshop

Jon Zimmerman, professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn, hosts a lecture and workshop on Thursday, Sept. 8, sponsored by the Darling Endowment for American Social and Cultural History at Youngstown State University.

The free event will be in the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor on the YSU campus. The lecture is 10 a.m., with the workshop at 2 p.m. Zimmerman was invited to campus by Martha Pallante, the Charles Darling Endowed Chair in American Social History at YSU. More information, call 330-941-3456.

Zimmerman, a former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, is one of the foremost education historians working today. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Atlantic and other popular magazines and newspapers. He is the recipient prizes from the American Educational Research Association, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and the History of Education Society. He also is co-editor of the Histories of American Education book series and also the History and Philosophy of Education series. 

Zimmerman holds master’s and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University.[3Before joining the Penn faculty, he spent 20 years at New York University as chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, receiving NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award.