The host for this event will be Distinguished Professor Allen G. Noble of the University of Akron, in Ohio. The Saturday field trip will feature a private walking tour and midday meal at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. The conference committee is currently soliciting proposals for papers, special sessions, and panel discussions relating to the conference theme. Papers relating to Kentucky are especially welcome, but presentations on all material culture topics of interest to the Society will be considered. The abstract deadline is 1 September 2001.
Students also receive a discount on the conference registration fees.
The second international conference of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale 16-18 November 2001. The conference theme will be The Arming of Slaves from the Classical Era to the American Civil War. Keynote Address David Brion Davis, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center and Professor of History, Yale University. The American Battlefield Protection Program will hold its Fifth National Conference on Battlefield Preservation 2-6 December 2000, at the Omni Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. This is the only conference that brings together all professions involved in the many facets of battlefield protection to discuss, exchange, and present ideas that lead to the long-term preservation and protection of our nation's historic battlefields.