Dr. John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona and current US National Endowment for Humanities Fellow, will present an eight-part lecture series titled "Modern Western Civilization (1500-present) From Dawn to Decadence to Disillusionment" beginning Sept. 13 at the Hollidaysburg Public Library.

This is a lecture series that covers all of what historians refer to as the Modern Era - the Reformation and the Renaissance in the 1500s up until the present. The series is meant for a general audience hitting the major important aspects of different sections of this era: the...