Historian Robert Gross Visits Campus

Robert A. Gross, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History,University of Connecticut, Storrs, will present two exciting lectures at UCSB.

1) History Seminar: “Outsiders in Concord, Massachusetts: Suicides, Drop-Outs, and Marginal Men and Women of Color”;
4-5:30, Monday May 19, in HSSB 4020
NB: A chapter of Dr. Gross’s current book in progress is available as a pre-circulated paper.
Please email Ann Plane in history to obtain a copy: plane@history.ucsb.edu

2) Public Lecture: “Conversations at the Lyceum: Emerson and His Neighbors”
Tuesday the 20th of May at 3:30PM in South Hall 2635

Professor Gross is a distinguished professor of American Studies and American History, who has worked in public humanities throughout his career. He specializes in the social and cultural history of the U.S., from the colonial era through the nineteenth century. His first book on the American Revolution, _The Minutemen and Their World_ (1976), won the Bancroft Prize in American History; it was issued in a 25th anniversary edition in 2001. He has continued studies of the Revolutionary era in such works as _In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion_ (1993). For two decades he has been deeply involved in the interdisciplinary field known as the history of the book, serving on the editorial board for the multi-volume History of the Book in America published by the University of North Carolina Press and co-editing with Mary Kelley the second volume of the series, “An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840,” (2010). His other recent work examines New England writers — notably, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson — in historical context. From that project has come _The Transcendentalists and Their World_, to be published by Hill & Wang.