The Third Annual Texas A & M History conference, sponsored by the
Sigma Rho Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta and the Texas A&M History
Graduate Student Organization, will take place on the Texas A & M
University-College Station campus on Friday, February 24, and
Saturday, February 25, 2012. This year’s conference has been
expanded to two days, both of which will feature panels for graduate
and undergraduate students to present their research to an audience
of peers and subject experts. On Friday evening, Dr. Gaines Foster,
Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of
Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergence
of the New South, 1865-1913, will provide the keynote address.
Saturday’s luncheon will feature a talk by Dr. Graydon A. “Jack”
Tunstall, Executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor
Society.
