The
Westmoreland
Heritage
The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
Thursday, October 16, 2003
7:30 PM
Ferguson Theater

Dr. Kenneth Warren
speaking on
“A Keystone of America’s Industrial Greatness: the Coke Industry of the Connellsville Area”

“A Keystone of America’s Industrial Greatness: the Coke Industry of the Connellsville Area,” the fourth in an annual series of lectures on regional history, will be given Thursday, October 16 at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Ferguson Theater at 7:30 p.m. by Dr. Kenneth Warren, Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. The program is free to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. For information, call 724-836-7497.
Warren is considered a leading scholar of American and British industry. He is the author of numerous books, including Triumphant Capitalism: Henry Clay Frick and the Industrial Transformation of America (1996), Wealth, Waste, and Alienation: Growth and Decline in the Connellsville Coke Industry (2001), and Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001 (2001). The three books, plus a 1973 one entitled The American Steel Industry 1850-1970: A Geographical Interpretation were published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Born in Lincoln, England, Warren earned his B.A. degree at the University of Cambridge, studied at the University of Wisconsin for a year, and then completed his doctorate at Cambridge. He has served as lecturer at the University of Leicester, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and from 1970-1990 at the University of Oxford. Over the past 20 years he has researched extensively in Pittsburgh in the Frick and U.S. Steel archives, the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society, and Carnegie Library.
Dr. Warren will be the fourth history scholar to appear at UPG under the St. Clair Lectureship established jointly by UPG President Dr. Frank A. Cassell and James V. Steeley, executive director of the Westmoreland County Historical Society. The St. Clair Lectureship is a signature event in a broader effort known as Westmoreland Heritage, a community coalition co-founded by Cassell and Steeley to promote the rich history of the county to students and visitors. Westmoreland Heritage is headquartered on the UPG campus and is directed by Thomas Headley.
Speaking on “Thomas Jefferson’s Economic Revolution from Below” last year was Dr. John Majewski, associate professor of history at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Prior to his lecture on October 16, Dr.Warren will direct a seminar at UPG for area high school and college students. He will be a featured guest speaker at the Westmoreland Historical Society’s annual awards dinner on Wednesday, October 15 at Mountain View Inn.
The lecture series is named for General Arthur St. Clair who was Pennsylvania’s highest- ranking officer in the Revolution and later rose to head the Articles of Confederation Congress. From 1788 until 1802, St. Clair was the first governor of the Northwest Territory that embraced five future states. He is buried in St. Clair Park in Greensburg where a statue marks his monument.