Call for Papers

Keynote Speaker:

Kerby Miller, Curators’ Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia

His address will be “Irish” and “Scotch-Irish” in Ireland and America: Only “Two Traditions”?

Professor Miller is the author of two prize-winning books on Irish-American history:

• Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America - recipient of the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration History Society, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
• Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 - awarded the James S. Donnelly Prize from the American Conference on Irish Studies.

His newest book, published in July 2008, is Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration.

For more information, contact:

• Stephen L. McIntyre, Professor of History, Missouri State University at stephenmcIntyre@missouristate.edu
  or
• Laura Wilson at The State Historical Society of Missouri, wilsonlo@umsystem.edu

The Missouri Conference on History brings together teachers of history and other professional historians to share in the presentation of the results of research, to exchange information on teaching and curriculum, to consider ways to promote interest in history and the welfare of the profession, and to discuss other concerns common to all historians. All persons interested or involved in the teaching of history, historical research, historical preservation, or any other professional application of history are welcome.

2008-2009 Steering Committee

• Diane Mutti Burke, University of Missouri-Kansas City
• John Dougan, Missouri State Archives, vice president
• Robert W. Frizzell, Northwest Missouri State University
• Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Patrick Huber, University of Missouri-Rolla
• Gary R. Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, secretary/treasurer
• Stephen McIntyre, Missouri State University, president
• Joel Rhodes, Southeast Missouri State University
• Kimberly Schreck, Washington University in St. Louis
• LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri