56th Annual WHA Conference
October 20-23, 2016 - St. Paul, Minnesota
2016 WHA President: John Mack Faragher
John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside (B.A., 1967), and did social work, before coming to Yale (Ph.D., 1977). After fifteen years as a professor at Mount Holyoke College he returned to Yale in 1993. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992); The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Hine; A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005); and Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. Hine. He teaches the history of the American West and directs the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.
2016 Program
Browse or download the 2016 Conference Program by clicking on the program cover
View the Conference Program Errata
View the 2016 Call for Papers: "Expanding Western Horizons"
2016 Leadership2016 Program Committee Stephen Aron, UCLA (Co-Chair) Anne F. Hyde, University of Oklahoma (Co-Chair) Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University Carolyn Brucken, Autry National Center Brian Cannon, Brigham Young University Max Flomen, UCLA Catharine R. Franklin, Texas Tech University Jay Gitlin, Yale University Andrew Graybill, Southern Methodist University Trinidad Gonzalez, South Texas College Michael Hogue, Carleton University, Ontario Doug Kiel, Williams College Jon Lauck, Senior Counsel to Senator John Thune Amy Lonetree, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz Michael Magliari, California State Univ., Chico Tiya Miles, University of Michigan Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico Theresa Salazar, Bancroft Library Rachel St. John, Univ. of California, Davis | 2016 Local Arrangements Committee Michael J. Lansing, Augsburg College (Co-Chair) |
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