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This series represents Dr. Lewis's service to his profession, membership in professional historical organizations, his personal records of career accomplishments and his various positions held across institutions, and the correspondence he retained over the duration of his career. Additional professional service and career records are located in Series 4, box 26, folder 4.

This series is an addendum received from Dr. Lewis in 2024. It includes assorted teaching materials from Dr. Lewis's time as a professor at West Virginia University, like course syllabi and assigned reading materials. There are also research files and similar materials related the development of Lewis's various scholarly publications, including two books: The Industrialist and the Mountaineer: The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia's Timber Frontier (2016) and Iron Artisans: Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel (2023). Materials compiled in the development of these texts include photocopied primary sources with accompanying research notes, correspondence with publishers and other scholars, and drafts of passages from the books. There are also a few files related to Lewis's career broadly, like his curriculum vitae and faculty evaluations. Born digital materials exist within the series as floppy disks, zip disks and CDs with files related to Lewis's work as a faculty member at WVU, the development of his scholarly publications, and his career documentation. The dates for the Teaching and Research and Scholarly Activities subseries reflect the content – not material creation. Please be aware that the dates may not be accurate for every item within a folder/box but rather reflect the general timeframe of the subject matter.