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Call for Papers, 2026 Fall Meeting
The 2026 Fall Meeting call for papers is now live!
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2026
The East Texas Historical Association invites proposals for papers, sessions, roundtables, and poster sessions for its 2026 annual fall meeting to be held in Nacogdoches, Texas, from Thursday, October 8 through Saturday, October 10, 2026. The host hotel for the meeting is the historic Fredonia Hotel & Conference Center.The program committee supports topics that cover all aspects of East Texas regional history, including, but not limited to, social, economic, political, cultural, preservation, and material culture, along with topics that address Texas history generally but are aligned to East Texas. We hope to receive sessions that are focused on a wide area of inquiry about East Texas history from teaching and curriculum, historiography, biographical, underrepresented regional communities, literature, publishing, and historical consciousness in a new century.
Both Standard presentations and Student presentations are considered. Click here for the full Call for Papers, and here for the Program Proposal Form.
Deadline for Submission: May 15, 2026. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2026. Please make all submissions electronically using the proposal form located above.
Send proposals to: Program Chair and First Vice-president Dr. Keith Volanto at kvolanto@collin.edu
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2026 Texas New Deal Symposium
CALL FOR PAPERS – The Texas New Deal Symposium & The East Texas Historical Association invite proposals for papers to be presented at 10th Annual Texas New Deal Symposium hosted by Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View on June 20, 2026.
Topics covering cultural, social, and historical subjects pertinent to the Great Depression and the New Deal Era, broadly defined, germane to Texas are invited to apply. Presentations should run fifteen to twenty minutes. One featured speaker may run up to thirty minutes, if the committee approves such an application.
Proposals should include the name of the presenter, title of the paper, and a one paragraph summary of what the paper will cover.
Due Date for Submissions – January 31, 2026
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by February 28, 2026.
Email proposals to George M. Cooper gcooper5@lamar.edu
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