Background
David Lee Lightner was born on May 13, 1942, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16801, United States
In 1963, David received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Pennsylvania State University.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
In 1964, Lightner got a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
In 1969, Lightner attained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University.
(This work represents a scholarly examination of how Illin...)
This work represents a scholarly examination of how Illinois Central management supervised railroad employees as the new industrial economy grew. The author investigates wages, hours and working conditions of railroaders; the attitude of managers towards the work force; and the methods, by which employers endeavored to recruit, train, discipline and provide for the safety and welfare of their employees.
https://www.amazon.com/Labor-Illinois-Central-Railroad-1852-1900/dp/0405099142
1977
(This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articl...)
This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articles and memorials by Dorothea Dix provides a forum for the great mid-nineteenth-century humanitarian and reformer to speak for herself.
https://www.amazon.com/Asylum-Prison-Poorhouse-Writings-Dorothea/dp/0809321637
1999
(Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 18...)
Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century’s great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn from their families and sold across state lines in distant markets. Shocked by the cruelty and extent of this practice, abolitionists called upon the federal government to exercise its constitutional authority over interstate commerce and outlaw the interstate selling of slaves. This groundbreaking book is the first to tell the complex story of the decades-long debate and legal battle over federal regulation of the slave trade.
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Commerce-Power-Struggle-Interstate/dp/0300114702
2006
(Winnie Lightner (1899–1971) stood out as the first great ...)
Winnie Lightner (1899–1971) stood out as the first great female comedian of the talkies. Blessed with a superb singing voice and a gift for making wisecracks and rubber faces, she rose to stardom in vaudeville and on Broadway. Then, at the dawn of the sound era, she became the first person in motion picture history to have her spoken words, the lyrics to a song, censored. In "Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies", David L. Lightner shows how Winnie Lightner's hilarious performance in the 1929 musical comedy Gold Diggers of Broadway made her an overnight sensation.
https://www.amazon.com/Winnie-Lightner-Talkies-Hollywood-Legends/dp/1496809831
2016
David Lee Lightner was born on May 13, 1942, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 1963, David received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Pennsylvania State University. The following year, in 1964, he got a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Later, in 1969, Lightner attained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cornell University.
During the period from 1969 till 1970, David held a post of an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1970, he moved to St. Olaf College as an Assistant Professor of History and remained there till 1974. Between 1974 and 1975, Lightner served as a Research Assistant at the City College of New York. Later, during a short period from 1975 till 1977, he worked as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.
It was in 1977, that David joined the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada, as an Assistant Professor of History, a post he continued to hold till 1982, when he was made an Associate Professor of History there. In 2006, Lightner was promoted to the post of a Professor of History at the same university.
During his career, Lightner has penned several books, including "Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad, 1852-1900: The Evolution of an Industrial Environment" (1977), "Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois" (1999), "Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War" (2006) and "Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies" (2016). He also contributed to such publications, as the Canadian Review of American Studies, Civil War History, Illinois Historical Journal, Journal of Transport History, Mid-America and Lincoln Herald.
Currently, David is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.
(This illustrated collection of annotated newspaper articl...)
1999(This work represents a scholarly examination of how Illin...)
1977(Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 18...)
2006(Winnie Lightner (1899–1971) stood out as the first great ...)
2016David is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Economic History Association and Canadian Association of University Teachers.