Penn State Altoona professor serves as commentator at Boston seminar

Brian Black

Brian Black’s newest book, “Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower’s 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel,” has received a full review by Mark Yost for the Wall Street Journal.

Credit: Penn State

ALTOONA, Pa. — Brian Black, distinguished professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, recently served as the invited commentator for a seminar at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston.

Black offered commentary on a paper presented by Katheryn Viens titled “Farm, Factory, & Mine: Worcester Coal & the Role of Extractive Industries in Early 19th-Century New England.”

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