Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar

              2007-2008 Schedule

 

              Co-sponsored by

              History Department, James Madison University

              Lord Fairfax Community College

 

The Shenandoah Valley Regional Studies Seminar is intended to give scholars at colleges, universities, museums, libraries, and other institutions a regular forum at which to consider topics of regional interest, pertinent, but not restricted, to the Shenandoah Valley.  The seminar meets on the third Friday of each month during the academic year, unless otherwise noted.  Seminar sessions are open to the general public.

 

All meetings begin at 3:35 p.m. and will be held at James Madison University in Jackson Hall, room 107, unless otherwise announced.  Contact Chris Arndt (telephone 540-568-3993 or e-mail at arndtjc@jmu.edu) for meeting location or directions.

 

             21 September— Geraldine Kiefer, Department of History, Shenandoah University, “Frances Benjamin Johnston and The Ladies’ Home Journal Visit the Country of Sheridan’s Ride”

 

            26 October— Wesley Joyner, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi, "The Legend and Life of Peter Francisco:  Fame, Fortune, and the Deprivation of America's Original Citizen Soldier." 

 

           16 November—Carole Nash, Geographic Science Program, Department of Integrated Science and Technology, James Madison University, “Poorly Known Tribes of the Interior, or What Happened to the Indians of the Shenandoah Valley?”  

 

            18 January—Dawne Burke, Department of Education, Shepherd University, "An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865 - 1955." 

 

            15 February—Walter Ghant, Department of History, James Madison University, An Annotated Diary of a “Colored” Community in Rockingham County, 1871-1879

 

            21 March—Catherine Tisinger, Department of History, Shenandoah University, “The Henkel Family”

            18 April—Charles A. Miller, Lake Forest College (emeritus), “The Classics in the Appalachians”