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Discussion published by Amanda Higgins on Wednesday, September 21, 2016

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 114, Nos. 3&4

e 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

By Andrea L. Smalley

Discussion published by Marc Egnal on Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Proposed panel on digital humanities

For SHEAR 2017 I’m interested in bringing together a panel on the digital humanities – an encouraged category. My paper will examine how the Ngram database helps map changes in women’s roles, 1800-1850. If you have a presentation on a related topic, or would like to chair or comment, please contact me at megnal@yorku.ca. 

Marc Egnal
Professor emeritus
York University, Toronto

Review published on Monday, September 19, 2016
Author: 
Thomas A. Apel
Reviewer: 
Jan Golinski

Golinski on Apel, 'Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic'


Thomas A. Apel. Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 208 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9740-5.

Reviewed by Jan Golinski (University of New Hampshire)
Published on H-SHEAR (September, 2016)
Commissioned by Robert P. Murray

Fever on the Mind

Discussion published by Brian Alberts on Thursday, September 15, 2016

CfP: Purdue University 7th Biennial Graduate Conference

Crafting Mosaics: Contextualizing Diversity across Space and Time

Purdue HGSA 7th Biennial Graduate Student Conference

March 4, 2017, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
 

The History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) at Purdue University welcomes paper and panel proposals for its seventh biennial graduate student conference titled, “Crafting Mosaics: Contextualizing Diversity across Space and Time.” Papers from advanced undergraduates will also be considered.

Discussion published by Kelli Nelson on Thursday, September 15, 2016

Agricultural History Society Call for Award Nominations

The Agricultural History Society seeks nominations for its publication awards through December 31, 2016. To nominate a book, article, or dissertation with a 2016 publication date, please follow the directions below. If you have a question, please email executive secretary Jim Giesen (JGiesen@history.msstate.edu).

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