H-Appalachia is devoted to the discussion of issues relating to the life and culture, both past and present, of the Appalachian region of the United States.
Call for Participation
2017 Appalachian Studies Association Conference
EXTREME Appalachia!
March 9-12, 2017, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Proposals may be submitted online via Marshall Digital Scholar at http://mds.marshall.edu/asa_conference/ August 23 through October 7, 2016.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
19 September 2016 to 26 September 2016. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Appalachia. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
THE GLOBAL IRISH DIASPORA
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
August 15-19, 2017
University College Dublin
First Call for Papers
Archaeology * History * Anthropology * Folklore * Art, Music, Literature
This is the inaugural congress in a triennial series that examines the histories, cultures, heritages and identities of Irish communities beyond Ireland's shores.
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
12 September 2016 to 19 September 2016. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Appalachia. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
The Summer/Fall 2016 special issue of the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, “Kentucky and the Struggle for the Early American West,” guest edited by Kevin Barksdale, is now available on Project MUSE: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34250
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Kentucky and the Struggle for the Early American West
By Kevin T. Barksdale
“They Steal Our Deer and Land”: Contested Hunting Grounds in the Trans-Appalachian West
