LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ -- Dr. Martin Duberman, distinguished professor of history at Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY), will deliver the seventh annual Emanuel Levine History Lecture at Rider University on Thursday, October 22, 1998 at 7 p.m. in the Anne Brossman Sweigart Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Is There a Gay and Lesbian Past," is free and open to the public.

Dr. Duberman is the author of several studies of American history, including biographies of Charles Francis Adams in 1961 and Paul Robeson in 1988, and such works as About Time: Exploring the Gay Past in 1991 and Stonewall in 1993. He is also widely published in several popular professional journals and was a founder of the first graduate program in gay and lesbian studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

The Levine Lecture series, sponsored each year since 1991 by the Rider University history department, is named in honor of the late Dr. Emanuel Levine, a history professor of Rider for more than 30 years prior to his death in 1980. Previous speakers in the series include James McPherson, Michael Zuckerman, Nell Irvin Painter, Robert Darnton, Clement Alexander Price, and Paul Ceruzzi.

Rider University's Lawrenceville campus is located five miles south of Princeton and three miles north of Trenton on Route 206 in Lawrence Township, NJ. The campus is one-half mile south of exit 7A of Interstate 95.