Event Details

End: September 1, 2018
Contact: mdcohen@utk.edu
More Info: http://polkproject.utk.edu/?page_id=489

The James K. Polk Project and the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invite paper proposals for “James K. Polk and His Time: A Conference Finale to the Polk Project,” to be held at the East Tennessee Historical Society, in Knoxville, on April 12–13, 2019. The conference will celebrate the completion of a fourteen-volume annotated edition of the eleventh U.S. president’s letters.

We invite proposals for papers about Polk or antebellum America. We especially welcome those that draw on the letters published in the Correspondence of James K. Polk. Because those cover diverse topics, ranging from war to slavery to science to education, papers may address a wide range of themes. We encourage college professors, graduate students, independent writers, documentary editors, librarians, and public scholars to submit proposals.

Each proposal should include the title of the paper; the name, email address, and institutional affiliation (if any) of the presenter; and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Please submit each proposal as a Microsoft Word or PDF file to project editor Michael David Cohen (mdcohen@utk.edu), with the subject line “Polk Conference Proposal,” by September 1, 2018. Contact Dr. Cohen with any questions.