Days of Gold Author to Speak

Pulitzer Prize nominee, Malcolm Rohrbough, professor of history at the University of Iowa, and author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation, will present a lecture titled, "A Look to the Past," on Monday, April 20, 7 p.m., Ayres 120. Kevin Starr, state librarian and noted California historian, said Rohrbough's book on the Gold Rush is an "exhaustively researched, elegantly written study," and called Rohrbough, "a master historian of this defining American epic." Rohrbough's lecture is sponsored by the Department of History and Friends of History. Public welcome.