New OVHC Logo & Memorabilia:

• We are selling t-shirts with the above logo designed by APSU art student Yvette Longmao Campagna. The shirts will be beige with maroon pring for $15. We are taking orders and if you want one, contact uffelmanm@apsu.edu. We will also have postcards and posters of this logo printed by Goldsmith Press available for purchase at the conference.

Conference Accommodations

• The Riverview Inn, located in downtown Clarksville, will offer conference participants special rates: $74 for a double/king room, $129 for a suite. When making reservations, be sure to inform the hotel staff that you will attend the OVHC.

Transportation from Nashville Airport

• The Nashville Airport ground transportation website has links to shuttle, limo, & car rental options.

• Conference Parking: campus parking passes to be provided with registration packet.

Clarksville Community Information

• Local Restaurants

Sponsors

• Austin Peay State University

• History & Philosophy Department
• APSU History Club
• Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society
• Society for Military History

Map-Directions

• From Nashville Airport

• Campus Map

Contact Us

• Department of History and Philosophy
  Box 4486
  Austin Peay State University
  Clarksville, TN 37044
  Phone: (931)-221-7919
  Fax: (931)-221-7917

• Dr. Minoa Uffelman, Coordinator, OVHC
  Office (931)-221-7704
  E-mail: uffelmanm@apsu.edu

• Dr. David Nelson, Logistics, OVHC
  Office Phone:(931)-221-7920
  E-mail: nelson@apsu.edu

Historic Harned Hall, Austin Peay State University Campus

24^th ANNUAL

OHIO VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE

 Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2008
 

The 24^th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference (OVHC), sponsored by APSU’s History & Philosophy Department, will be held in the Morgan University Center on the campus of APSU in Clarksville, Tennessee on Oct. 30-Nov.1, 2008. The conference topics include a broad range of subjects including regional, American and non-American topics, interdisciplinary panels and round tables. The Society for Military History will sponsor panels as will Phi Alpha Theta.

Registration Information (PDF)

You may also register by calling (931) 221-7816

Registration Fees

$45 registration fee (late fee incl.)

$20 Oct. 31 dinner buffet (optional)

$15 Nov. 1 Phi Alpha Theta luncheon (optional; all conference participants welcome)

2008 Conference Schedule (PDF)

Schedule with links to submitted papers

(updated October 29, 2008)

Announcing the 24th OVHC Keynote Speaker:

John Siegenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center

"Conversations with Bobby 40 Years Later."

Robert F. Kennedy (second from left) with Mr. Siegenthaler & family

Phi Alpha Theta Saturday Luncheon Speaker:

Dr. Michael Bertrand, TSU Assistant Professor of History

"'This Ain't No Vaudeville': Popular Music, The Civil Rights Struggle and the 1956 Assault on Nat 'King' Cole"

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Book Signing Event

24^th Annual Ohio Valley History Conference

Friday, October 31, 2008

Time:  11:30 to 12:15

Authors and Books:

Charles Bussey

Where We Stand:  Voices of Southern Dissent edited by Anthony Dunbar

and

American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril edited by Anthony Dunbar

Michèle T. Butts

Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri:   The Face of Loyalty

Richard P. Gildrie

The Profane, the Civil, & the Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679-1749

Kristofer Ray  

Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825:  Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier

Antonio S. Thompson

German Jackboots on Kentucky Bluegrass: Housing German Prisoners of War in Kentucky, 1942-1946