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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
The Texas New Deal Symposium & The East Texas Historical Association is excited to announce the schedule for the 10th Annual Texas New Deal Symposium hosted by Prairie View A&M University in Prairie View on June 20, 2026.
To register for the 2026 Texas New Deal Symposium, click here.
The event will be at PVAMU's Welcome Center, which is just off the entrance to the campus off University Drive. Here is a map of the campus.
Registration starts at 8:00 A.M
Free lunch is provided, but you must register for the symposium
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