Author of award-winning book on the Postwar South lectures Feb. 16

Historian Ken Fones-Wolf of West Virginia University discusses his award-winning book, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie, at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, 151 W. Wood Street.

The book, co-authored with Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, won the Labor and Working Class History Association’s David Montgomery Award for the best book on American labor and Working Class in 2016. It has won wide acclaim for its importance in understanding the complexities of the relationships between religion, class and labor in the Post-War South.

Ken Fones-Wolf is the Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair of history at West Virginia University and also the author of Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Central Appalachia, 1890-1930s.

The discussion is co-sponsored by Youngstown State University’s Africana Studies program and Center for Working Class Studies as part of the university’s African American History Month events. The presentation is free and open to the public; light refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Tim Francisco, at tfrancisco@ysu.edu.