Call for Papers

"Labor in the Southwest, 1943-46: A Symposium,"
January 24-25, 2002 at Las Cruces, N.M.

The Department of History at New Mexico State University and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum are co-sponsoring a World War II home front symposium on the wartime labor emergency and its resolution. Expected topics to be covered include:

• the mobilization of school children,
• the Women's Land Army,
• the antecedents of the Bracero program,
• and prisoner of war labor.

The symposium will coincide with the opening of a major museum exhibit on POW labor use in NM agriculture at the NM Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Please submit proposals for papers and/or panels to:

Dr. Jon Hunner
Department of History
P.O. Box 30001 MSC 3H
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001.